1 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
2 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
3 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
4 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
5 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
6 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
8 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
9 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
10 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
11 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
12 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
14 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18 o Major bugfixes (stability):
19 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
22 by "cypherpunks_backup".
23 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
24 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
25 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
28 o Minor features (geoip):
29 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
30 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
32 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
33 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
34 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
35 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
36 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
37 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
39 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
40 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
41 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
42 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
45 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
46 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
47 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
48 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
49 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
51 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
52 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
53 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
54 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
55 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
58 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
59 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
60 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
61 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
62 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
63 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
64 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
66 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
67 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
68 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
69 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
71 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
72 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
73 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
74 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
75 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
76 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
79 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
80 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
81 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
84 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
85 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
86 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
87 authorities should upgrade.
89 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
90 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
91 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
92 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
95 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
96 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
97 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
100 o Minor features (geoip):
101 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
102 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
105 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
106 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
107 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
108 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
109 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
111 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
112 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
114 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
115 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
116 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
117 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
118 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
119 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
120 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
122 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
123 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
124 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
125 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
126 Resolves ticket 15515.
127 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
128 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
129 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
133 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
134 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
136 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
137 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
138 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
139 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
140 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
141 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
142 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
143 bugs should be addressed.
145 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
146 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
147 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
148 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
151 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
152 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
153 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
155 o Major bugfixes (client):
156 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
157 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
160 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
161 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
162 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
163 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
164 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
165 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
167 o Major bugfixes (portability):
168 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
169 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
172 o Minor features (heartbeat):
173 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
174 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
175 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
176 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
178 o Code simplification and refactoring:
179 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
180 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
183 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
184 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
186 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
187 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
188 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
190 o Directory authority changes:
191 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
192 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
193 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
194 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
197 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
198 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
199 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
202 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
203 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
204 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
205 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
206 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
207 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
208 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
209 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
211 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
212 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
213 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
214 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
216 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
217 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
218 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
219 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
221 o Minor features (controller):
222 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
223 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
224 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
226 o Minor features (geoip):
227 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
228 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
231 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
232 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
233 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
234 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
235 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
236 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
238 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
239 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
240 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
241 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
243 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
244 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
245 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
246 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
247 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
248 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
249 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
250 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
252 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
253 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
254 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
256 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
257 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
258 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
259 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
260 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
264 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
265 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
266 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
269 o Directory authority changes:
270 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
271 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
272 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
273 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
276 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
277 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
278 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
279 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
281 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
282 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
283 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
284 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
285 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
286 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
287 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
288 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
290 o Minor features (geoip):
291 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
292 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
296 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
297 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
298 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
299 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
300 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
302 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
303 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
304 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
307 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
308 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
309 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
310 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
311 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
312 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
313 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
314 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
316 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
317 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
318 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
321 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
322 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
323 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
325 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
326 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
327 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
328 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
329 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
331 o Minor features (controller):
332 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
333 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
334 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
336 o Minor features (geoip):
337 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
338 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
341 o Minor features (logs):
342 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
345 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
346 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
347 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
348 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
349 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
350 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
351 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
352 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
353 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
355 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
356 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
358 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
361 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
362 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
363 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
365 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
366 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
367 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
368 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
370 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
371 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
374 o Directory authority IP change:
375 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
379 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
380 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
381 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
385 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
386 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
387 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
388 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
389 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
390 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
392 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
393 the next version will be a release candidate.
395 o Deprecated versions:
396 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
397 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
399 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
400 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
401 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
402 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
403 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
404 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
406 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
407 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
408 Implements ticket 11485.
410 o Major features (changed defaults):
411 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
412 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
413 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
414 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
415 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
416 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
418 o Major features (directory system):
419 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
420 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
421 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
422 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
423 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
424 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
425 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
426 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
427 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
428 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
429 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
430 227. Closes ticket 10395.
432 o Major features (guards):
433 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
434 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
435 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
436 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
437 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
439 o Major features (performance):
440 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
441 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
442 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
443 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
444 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
445 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
446 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
447 Implements ticket 9682.
449 o Major features (relay):
450 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
451 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
452 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
454 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
455 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
456 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
457 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
459 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
460 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
461 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
462 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
463 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
464 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
465 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
467 o Minor features (build):
468 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
469 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
470 Resolves ticket 13037.
472 o Minor features (controller):
473 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
474 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
476 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
477 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
478 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
479 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
480 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
481 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
483 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
484 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
485 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
486 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
487 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
488 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
489 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
490 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
491 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
492 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
494 o Minor features (geoip):
495 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
496 GeoLite2 Country database.
498 o Minor features (guard nodes):
499 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
500 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
501 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
503 o Minor features (hidden service):
504 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
505 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
506 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
507 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
508 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
509 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
510 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
511 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
513 o Minor features (interface):
514 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
515 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
516 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
518 o Minor features (logging):
519 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
520 Resolves ticket 6852.
521 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
522 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
523 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
525 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
526 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
528 o Minor features (stability):
529 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
530 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
533 o Minor features (systemd):
534 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
535 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
537 o Minor features (testing networks):
538 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
539 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
540 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
541 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
542 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
543 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
545 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
546 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
547 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
548 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
549 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
551 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
552 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
553 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
554 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
555 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
557 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
558 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
559 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
560 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
561 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
562 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
563 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
564 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
566 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
567 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
568 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
569 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
570 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
571 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
572 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
573 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
575 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
576 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
577 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
580 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
581 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
582 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
583 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
584 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
586 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
587 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
588 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
589 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
590 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
592 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
593 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
594 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
595 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
596 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
597 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
598 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
599 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
600 Addresses ticket 14188.
601 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
602 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
603 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
604 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
605 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
606 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
607 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
608 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
609 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
611 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
612 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
613 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
614 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
615 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
616 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
617 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
618 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
620 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
621 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
622 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
623 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
624 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
625 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
626 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
627 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
628 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
629 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
630 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
631 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
632 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
634 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
635 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
636 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
637 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
638 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
639 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
640 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
641 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
642 state, and key files.
643 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
644 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
647 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
648 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
649 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
650 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
651 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
652 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
653 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
654 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
655 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
656 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
657 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
659 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
660 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
661 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
662 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
664 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
665 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
667 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
668 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
669 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
670 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
671 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
672 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
674 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
675 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
676 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
677 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
678 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
679 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
680 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
681 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
682 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
683 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
685 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
686 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
687 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
689 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
690 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
692 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
693 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
694 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
695 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
696 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
698 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
699 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
700 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
701 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
704 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
705 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
706 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
709 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
710 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
711 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
713 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
714 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
715 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
716 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
717 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
718 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
719 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
721 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
722 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
725 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
726 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
727 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
729 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
730 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
731 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
734 o Code simplification and refactoring:
735 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
736 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
737 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
738 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
739 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
740 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
741 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
742 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
744 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
745 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
747 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
751 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
752 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
753 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
754 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
755 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
756 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
758 o Downgraded warnings:
759 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
760 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
763 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
764 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
765 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
766 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
767 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
771 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
772 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
773 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
774 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
775 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
777 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
778 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
779 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
780 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
782 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
783 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
784 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
785 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
787 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
788 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
789 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
792 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
793 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
794 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
795 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
796 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
797 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
799 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
800 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
801 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
802 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
804 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
805 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
806 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
807 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
808 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
809 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
811 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
812 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
813 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
814 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
815 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
816 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
817 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
820 o Major features (hidden services):
821 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
822 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
824 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
825 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
826 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
827 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
828 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
829 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
830 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
831 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
832 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
833 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
834 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
836 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
837 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
838 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
839 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
840 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
841 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
844 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
845 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
846 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
847 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
848 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
849 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
851 o Directory authority changes:
852 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
853 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
854 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
856 o Major removed features:
857 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
858 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
859 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
860 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
862 o Minor features (client):
863 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
864 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
865 Resolves ticket 13315.
867 o Minor features (controller):
868 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
869 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
872 o Minor features (geoip):
873 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
876 o Minor features (hidden services):
877 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
878 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
879 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
880 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
881 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
882 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
884 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
885 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
886 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
888 o Minor features (systemd):
889 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
890 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
891 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
892 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
894 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
895 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
896 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
897 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
898 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
901 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
902 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
903 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
904 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
905 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
907 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
908 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
909 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
912 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
913 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
914 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
915 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
916 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
918 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
919 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
920 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
922 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
923 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
924 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
925 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
926 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
928 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
929 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
932 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
933 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
934 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
935 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
936 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
937 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
938 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
939 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
940 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
941 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
942 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
943 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
944 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
945 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
948 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
949 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
950 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
951 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
952 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
953 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
955 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
956 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
957 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
958 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
960 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
961 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
963 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
964 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
965 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
966 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
969 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
970 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
971 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
972 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
973 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
974 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
976 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
977 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
978 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
979 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
980 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
981 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
982 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
983 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
984 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
985 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
986 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
987 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
988 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
989 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
990 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
991 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
992 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
993 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
994 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
995 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
996 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
997 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
998 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
999 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
1000 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
1001 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
1002 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
1003 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1004 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
1005 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
1006 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
1007 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
1009 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
1010 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
1011 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
1012 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
1013 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1015 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1016 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
1017 with a function instead.
1018 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
1019 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
1020 Closes ticket 13172.
1021 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
1022 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
1023 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
1024 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
1025 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
1026 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
1027 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
1028 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
1029 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
1030 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
1031 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
1032 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
1036 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
1037 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
1038 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
1039 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
1040 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
1041 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
1042 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
1043 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
1044 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
1045 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
1046 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
1047 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
1050 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
1051 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
1052 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
1053 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
1054 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
1055 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
1057 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
1061 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
1062 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
1063 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
1064 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
1065 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
1066 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
1067 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
1068 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
1069 of introducing infinite download loops.
1071 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
1072 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
1073 with 0.2.5.x for now.
1075 o New compiler and system requirements:
1076 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
1077 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
1078 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
1079 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
1081 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
1082 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
1083 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
1084 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
1085 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
1086 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
1087 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
1088 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
1089 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
1091 o Removed platform support:
1092 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
1093 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
1094 Closes ticket 11446.
1096 o Major features (bridges):
1097 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
1098 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
1099 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
1102 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
1103 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
1104 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
1105 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
1108 o Major features (directory system):
1109 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
1110 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
1111 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
1112 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
1114 o Major features (sample torrc):
1115 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
1116 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
1117 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
1118 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
1119 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
1120 generally useful "sample torrc".
1122 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
1123 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
1124 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1126 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
1127 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
1128 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
1129 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
1130 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1132 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
1133 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
1134 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
1135 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
1137 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
1138 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
1139 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
1140 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
1141 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
1142 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
1145 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
1146 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
1147 document. Implements feature 10427.
1149 o Minor features (client):
1150 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
1151 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
1152 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
1153 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
1155 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1156 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
1157 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
1158 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
1159 argument more than once.
1160 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
1161 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
1162 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
1163 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
1164 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
1165 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
1167 o Minor features (logging):
1168 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
1169 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
1170 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
1171 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
1172 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
1173 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
1174 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
1175 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
1176 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
1178 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
1179 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
1180 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
1181 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
1183 o Minor features (relay):
1184 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
1185 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
1186 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
1188 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
1189 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
1190 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
1191 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
1193 o Minor features (testing networks):
1194 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
1195 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
1196 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
1197 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
1198 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
1201 o Minor features (validation):
1202 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
1203 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
1204 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
1205 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
1206 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
1207 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
1208 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
1209 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
1211 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
1212 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
1213 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
1214 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1216 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1217 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
1218 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
1219 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1221 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1222 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
1223 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
1225 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
1226 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
1227 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
1229 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
1230 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1231 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
1232 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
1233 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
1234 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
1235 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
1237 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1238 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
1239 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
1240 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
1241 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
1242 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1243 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
1244 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
1245 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
1247 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
1248 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
1249 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
1250 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
1251 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
1253 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
1254 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
1255 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
1257 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1258 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
1259 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
1260 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
1261 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
1263 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
1264 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
1265 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
1266 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1267 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
1268 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
1269 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1270 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
1271 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
1272 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
1273 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
1276 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1277 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
1278 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
1279 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
1280 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1282 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1283 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
1284 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1285 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
1286 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
1289 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
1290 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
1291 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1292 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
1293 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
1294 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1296 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1297 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
1298 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
1299 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1301 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
1302 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
1303 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
1304 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1306 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
1307 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
1308 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
1309 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
1312 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
1313 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
1314 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1317 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
1318 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1319 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
1320 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
1321 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
1324 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1325 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
1326 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
1328 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
1329 Resolves ticket 12205.
1330 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
1331 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
1332 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
1333 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
1335 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
1336 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
1337 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
1339 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
1340 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
1342 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
1343 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
1344 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
1345 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
1346 or_options_t structure.
1349 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
1350 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
1351 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
1352 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
1356 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
1357 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
1358 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
1359 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
1360 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
1361 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
1362 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
1363 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
1364 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
1366 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
1367 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
1369 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
1370 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
1371 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
1372 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
1373 anymore, and ignore it.
1376 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
1377 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
1378 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
1379 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
1380 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
1381 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
1382 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
1383 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
1384 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
1385 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
1386 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
1387 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
1389 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
1390 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
1391 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
1393 o Distribution (systemd):
1394 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
1395 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
1396 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
1397 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
1398 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1400 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
1401 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
1403 o Removed features (directory authorities):
1404 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
1405 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
1406 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
1407 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
1408 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
1409 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
1410 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
1411 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
1412 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
1414 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
1415 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
1416 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
1417 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
1420 o Testing (test-network.sh):
1421 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
1422 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
1424 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
1426 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
1427 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
1428 Partially implements ticket 13161.
1431 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
1432 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
1434 It adds several new security features, including improved
1435 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
1436 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
1437 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
1438 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
1439 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
1440 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
1441 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
1442 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
1443 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
1444 and features mentioned below.
1446 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
1447 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
1449 o Deprecated versions:
1450 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
1451 attention for some while.
1454 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
1455 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1456 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1457 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1458 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1459 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
1461 o Major security fixes:
1462 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1463 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1464 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1466 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
1467 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1468 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1469 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1472 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
1473 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
1474 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
1475 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1477 o Compilation fixes:
1478 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
1479 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
1480 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
1482 o Downgraded warnings:
1483 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
1484 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
1487 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
1488 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
1489 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
1490 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
1491 (which does affect Tor).
1493 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1494 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
1495 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
1496 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
1498 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
1499 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
1500 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
1501 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
1504 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
1505 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
1506 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1507 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1508 the directory authorities.
1511 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1512 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1513 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1514 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1515 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1516 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1517 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1518 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1519 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1520 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1521 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1522 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1524 o Directory authority changes:
1525 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1528 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
1529 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
1530 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
1531 the directory authorities.
1534 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
1535 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
1536 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
1537 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
1538 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
1539 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
1540 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
1541 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
1542 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
1543 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
1544 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
1545 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1547 o Directory authority changes:
1548 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
1550 o Minor features (geoip):
1551 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1555 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
1556 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
1557 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
1558 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
1559 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
1561 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
1562 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
1563 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
1564 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
1565 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
1566 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
1567 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1568 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
1569 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
1570 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
1571 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
1572 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
1573 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
1574 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1575 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
1576 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
1578 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1579 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
1580 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1581 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1582 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
1583 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
1584 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
1585 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1587 o Minor features (bridge):
1588 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
1589 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
1591 o Minor features (geoip):
1592 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1595 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1596 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
1597 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
1598 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
1599 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
1600 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
1601 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1602 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
1603 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
1604 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
1605 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
1606 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
1607 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
1608 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
1609 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
1611 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
1612 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
1613 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1614 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
1615 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
1617 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1618 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
1619 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1620 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
1621 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
1624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1625 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
1626 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
1627 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
1628 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1629 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
1630 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
1631 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1632 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
1633 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
1634 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
1637 o Distribution (systemd):
1638 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
1639 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
1640 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
1641 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
1642 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
1643 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
1644 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
1645 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
1646 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
1650 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
1651 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
1653 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
1657 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
1658 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
1659 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
1660 us closer to a release candidate.
1662 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
1663 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1664 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1665 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1666 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1668 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1669 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1670 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1671 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1672 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1673 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1674 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1675 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1676 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1680 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
1681 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
1682 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
1683 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
1684 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
1685 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
1686 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
1690 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
1691 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
1692 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
1693 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
1694 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
1695 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
1696 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
1697 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1699 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
1701 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
1702 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1703 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1704 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1705 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1706 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1707 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1708 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1709 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1710 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1713 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
1714 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
1715 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
1716 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
1718 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
1719 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
1720 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
1723 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
1724 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
1725 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
1726 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
1729 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
1730 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
1731 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
1732 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
1733 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
1734 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
1735 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
1736 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
1737 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
1738 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
1741 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
1742 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
1743 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
1744 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
1745 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
1746 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
1747 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
1748 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
1752 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
1753 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
1754 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
1755 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
1756 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
1757 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
1758 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
1759 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
1760 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1761 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
1762 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
1763 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
1764 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
1767 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1771 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
1772 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
1773 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
1774 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
1775 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
1776 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
1779 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
1780 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
1781 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
1782 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
1783 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
1784 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
1785 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
1786 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
1787 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
1788 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
1789 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
1790 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
1791 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1793 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1794 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
1795 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
1796 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
1799 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
1800 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
1801 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
1803 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
1804 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
1805 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
1806 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
1807 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
1808 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
1809 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
1810 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
1811 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
1812 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
1813 router's identity is not forgeable.
1815 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1816 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
1817 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
1818 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
1819 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1820 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
1821 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
1822 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
1823 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
1824 bugfix on every version of Tor.
1826 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
1827 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
1828 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
1829 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
1832 o Minor features (diagnostic):
1833 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
1834 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
1835 help diagnose bug 7164.
1836 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
1837 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
1838 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
1839 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
1840 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
1842 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
1843 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
1844 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
1845 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
1846 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
1847 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
1848 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
1850 o Minor features (security, memory management):
1851 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
1852 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
1853 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
1854 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
1855 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
1856 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
1858 o Minor features (security):
1859 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
1860 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
1861 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
1862 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
1864 o Minor features (build):
1865 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
1866 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
1867 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
1869 o Minor features (other):
1870 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
1873 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
1874 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
1875 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
1876 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
1877 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1879 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1880 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
1881 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
1882 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
1883 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
1884 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
1885 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
1886 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
1887 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1888 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
1889 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
1890 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
1892 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1893 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
1894 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
1895 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
1896 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
1897 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
1898 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
1899 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
1900 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
1901 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
1902 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1903 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
1904 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
1905 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
1906 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
1907 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
1908 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
1909 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
1912 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
1913 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
1914 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
1915 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
1916 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
1917 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
1918 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1920 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
1921 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
1922 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1923 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
1924 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1925 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
1926 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1927 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
1928 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
1930 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
1931 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
1933 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
1934 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
1936 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
1937 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
1938 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1939 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
1940 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
1941 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1942 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
1943 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
1944 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
1946 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
1947 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
1948 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
1949 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
1950 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
1951 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1952 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
1953 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
1954 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1955 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
1956 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
1957 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1958 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
1959 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
1960 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
1961 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
1962 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
1963 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1965 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1966 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
1967 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
1968 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
1969 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
1970 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1971 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
1972 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
1973 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
1976 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1977 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
1978 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
1979 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
1980 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1982 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1983 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
1984 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
1985 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
1987 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
1988 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
1989 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
1990 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1991 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
1992 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
1993 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
1994 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
1996 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
1997 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
1998 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
1999 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
2002 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
2003 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
2004 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
2005 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
2006 versions. Found by "skruffy".
2007 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
2008 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
2009 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
2012 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
2013 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
2014 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
2015 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
2018 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
2019 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
2020 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
2021 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
2023 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
2024 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
2025 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
2027 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
2028 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
2029 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2031 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2032 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
2033 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2034 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
2035 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
2039 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
2040 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
2041 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
2042 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
2045 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
2046 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
2047 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
2048 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
2050 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
2051 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
2053 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
2054 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
2055 caches don't get confused.
2058 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
2059 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
2060 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
2061 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
2062 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
2065 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
2066 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
2067 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
2068 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
2069 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
2070 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
2074 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
2075 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
2076 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
2077 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
2078 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
2079 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
2080 of RAM, and several others.
2082 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2083 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
2084 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
2085 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
2086 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
2088 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
2089 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
2090 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
2091 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
2094 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2095 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
2096 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
2097 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
2098 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
2099 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
2100 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2101 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
2102 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
2103 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
2104 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
2105 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
2106 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
2107 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
2108 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
2109 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
2110 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
2111 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
2112 Resolves ticket 11438.
2114 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
2115 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
2116 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
2117 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
2118 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
2119 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2121 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2122 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
2123 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2125 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2126 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
2127 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2129 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2130 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
2131 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
2132 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2135 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
2136 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
2138 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2139 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
2140 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2143 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
2144 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
2145 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
2146 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
2149 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2150 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
2151 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
2152 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
2154 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2155 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
2156 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
2157 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2159 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
2160 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
2161 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
2165 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
2166 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
2167 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
2168 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
2169 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
2170 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
2171 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
2172 the Linux sandbox code.
2174 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
2175 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
2176 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
2178 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
2179 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
2181 o Major features (security):
2182 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
2183 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
2184 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
2185 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
2186 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
2187 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
2188 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
2189 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
2191 o Major features (relay performance):
2192 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
2193 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
2194 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
2195 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
2196 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
2197 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
2198 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
2199 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
2200 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
2201 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
2203 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
2204 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
2205 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
2206 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
2207 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
2208 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
2209 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
2211 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
2212 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
2214 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
2215 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
2216 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
2217 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
2218 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
2219 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
2220 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2221 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
2222 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
2223 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
2224 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
2225 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
2226 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
2227 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
2228 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
2229 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
2230 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
2231 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
2232 Resolves ticket 11438.
2234 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
2235 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
2236 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
2237 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2239 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
2240 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
2241 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
2242 10267; patch from "yurivict".
2243 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
2244 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
2245 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
2246 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
2247 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
2248 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
2250 o Minor features (security):
2251 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
2252 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
2253 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
2254 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
2257 o Minor features (log verbosity):
2258 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
2259 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
2260 Resolves ticket 5286.
2261 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
2262 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
2263 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
2264 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
2265 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
2266 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
2267 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
2268 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
2269 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
2271 o Minor features (relay):
2272 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
2273 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
2274 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
2276 o Minor features (controller):
2277 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
2278 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
2280 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
2281 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
2282 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
2284 o Minor features (bridge client):
2285 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
2286 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
2287 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
2289 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2290 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
2291 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
2292 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
2293 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
2294 still referenced by a live node_t object.
2296 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
2297 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
2298 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
2299 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
2301 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
2302 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
2303 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
2304 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
2307 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
2308 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
2309 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2311 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
2312 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
2313 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
2314 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2315 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
2316 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
2317 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2319 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
2320 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
2321 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
2322 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2323 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
2324 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
2325 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2326 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
2327 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
2328 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
2329 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2330 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
2331 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
2334 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
2335 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
2336 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
2337 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
2338 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
2340 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
2341 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
2342 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
2345 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2346 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
2347 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
2349 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
2350 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
2351 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2353 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2354 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
2355 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
2356 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2358 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
2359 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
2360 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2361 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
2362 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
2364 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
2365 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
2366 early. Fixes bug 10081.
2368 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
2369 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
2370 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2371 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
2372 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2373 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
2374 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
2375 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
2377 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
2378 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
2379 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
2380 should never have affected anyone in practice.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
2383 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
2384 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2386 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
2387 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
2388 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
2389 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
2390 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
2391 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
2392 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
2393 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
2394 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
2395 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
2396 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
2397 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
2398 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
2399 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
2401 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
2402 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
2403 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
2404 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
2405 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
2406 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
2407 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
2408 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
2412 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
2413 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
2414 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
2415 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2416 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
2417 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2418 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
2419 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
2421 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
2423 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2424 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
2425 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
2426 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
2427 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
2430 o Deprecated versions:
2431 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2432 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
2433 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
2434 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
2437 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
2438 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
2439 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
2440 Patch from Dana Koch.
2443 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
2444 Resolves ticket 11070.
2447 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
2448 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
2449 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
2450 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
2451 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
2454 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
2455 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
2457 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
2458 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
2459 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
2460 streams attached to each circuit.
2462 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
2463 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
2464 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
2465 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
2466 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
2467 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
2468 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
2469 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
2470 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
2471 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
2472 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
2473 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
2474 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
2476 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
2477 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
2478 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
2480 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2481 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
2482 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
2483 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
2484 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
2485 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
2486 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
2487 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
2488 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
2490 o Minor features (other):
2491 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
2492 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
2493 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
2494 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
2495 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
2496 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
2497 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
2498 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
2499 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
2502 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
2503 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2504 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2505 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2506 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2507 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2508 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2509 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2511 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2512 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
2513 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
2514 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
2515 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2516 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
2517 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
2518 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
2520 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
2521 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
2522 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
2523 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
2524 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
2525 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2526 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
2527 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
2528 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2529 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
2530 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
2531 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2533 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
2534 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
2535 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2536 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
2537 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
2538 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
2539 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
2540 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
2541 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2542 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
2543 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2544 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
2545 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
2546 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
2548 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
2549 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
2551 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
2552 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
2553 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
2554 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
2555 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
2556 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
2557 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2558 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
2559 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
2560 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
2561 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
2562 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2563 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
2564 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
2566 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
2567 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
2568 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
2569 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2572 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
2573 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
2574 the rest of bug 10841.
2577 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
2578 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
2579 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
2580 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
2581 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
2582 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
2583 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
2584 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
2585 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
2586 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
2587 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
2588 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2589 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
2590 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
2591 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
2593 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2594 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
2595 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
2597 o Test infrastructure:
2598 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
2599 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
2600 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
2601 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2604 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
2605 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
2606 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
2607 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
2609 o Major features (client security):
2610 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2611 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2612 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2613 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2614 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2615 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2618 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2619 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2620 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2621 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2623 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2624 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2625 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
2626 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
2627 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
2630 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2631 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2633 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
2634 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
2635 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
2636 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
2637 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
2638 GeoLite2 Country database.
2641 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
2642 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
2643 bugfix on every released Tor.
2644 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2645 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2646 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2647 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2648 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
2649 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
2650 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
2651 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2652 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2653 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2654 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2655 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2656 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2657 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2658 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2660 o Documentation fixes:
2661 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2662 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2665 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
2666 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
2667 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
2668 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
2669 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
2670 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
2671 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
2672 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
2674 o Major features (client security):
2675 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
2676 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
2677 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
2678 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
2679 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
2680 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
2681 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
2682 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
2683 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
2684 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
2685 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
2686 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
2688 o Major features (bridges):
2689 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
2690 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
2691 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
2692 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
2693 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
2694 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
2695 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
2696 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
2699 o Major features (other):
2700 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
2701 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
2702 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
2703 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
2704 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
2705 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
2706 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
2707 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
2708 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
2709 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
2710 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
2711 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
2714 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
2715 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
2716 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2717 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
2718 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
2719 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
2720 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2722 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2723 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
2724 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
2725 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
2726 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
2727 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
2728 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
2729 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
2730 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
2732 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
2733 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2734 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
2735 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
2736 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
2737 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
2739 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2740 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
2741 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
2742 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
2743 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
2744 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
2747 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
2748 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
2749 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
2750 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
2751 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
2752 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
2753 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
2755 o Minor features (security):
2756 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
2757 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
2760 o Minor features (config options and command line):
2761 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
2762 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
2763 Implements ticket 10060.
2764 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
2765 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
2766 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
2768 o Minor features (controller):
2769 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
2770 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
2771 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
2772 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
2773 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
2776 o Minor features (build):
2777 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
2778 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
2779 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
2780 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
2781 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
2782 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
2783 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
2785 o Minor features (testing):
2786 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
2787 the unit test scripts.
2788 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
2789 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
2790 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
2791 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
2793 o Minor features (log messages):
2794 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
2795 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
2796 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
2797 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
2798 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
2799 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
2800 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
2801 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
2802 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
2803 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
2805 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2806 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
2807 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
2808 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
2809 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
2810 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
2811 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
2812 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
2813 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
2814 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2816 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
2817 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
2818 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
2819 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
2822 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2823 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
2824 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
2825 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
2826 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2828 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2829 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
2830 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
2831 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
2832 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
2833 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
2834 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
2836 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
2837 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
2838 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
2839 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
2840 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
2841 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
2842 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2844 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
2845 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
2846 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
2847 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2849 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
2850 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
2851 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
2852 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
2853 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
2854 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
2855 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
2856 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
2857 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
2858 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
2859 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2861 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
2862 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
2863 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
2864 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
2865 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
2866 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
2867 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
2868 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
2869 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
2870 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
2872 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
2873 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
2874 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
2875 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
2878 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2879 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
2880 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
2881 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
2882 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
2883 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
2885 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
2886 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2888 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2889 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
2890 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
2891 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2893 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
2894 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
2895 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
2896 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2897 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
2898 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
2899 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
2900 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2901 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
2902 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
2903 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
2904 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
2905 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
2906 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
2908 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
2909 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
2910 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2911 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
2912 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
2913 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
2915 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2916 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
2917 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2918 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
2919 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
2920 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
2921 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
2922 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
2923 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
2924 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2925 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
2926 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
2928 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2929 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
2930 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
2931 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
2932 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
2933 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2934 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
2935 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
2936 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2937 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
2938 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
2939 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
2940 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
2941 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
2942 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
2943 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
2946 o Removed code and features:
2947 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
2948 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
2949 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
2950 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
2951 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
2952 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
2954 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
2955 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
2956 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
2957 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
2958 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
2959 part of a fix for bug 10841.
2961 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2962 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
2963 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
2964 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
2965 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
2966 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
2967 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
2968 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
2969 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
2970 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
2971 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
2974 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
2975 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
2976 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
2977 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
2978 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
2980 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
2981 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
2982 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
2983 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
2984 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
2985 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
2986 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
2989 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
2990 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
2991 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
2994 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
2995 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
2996 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
2997 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
2998 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
2999 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
3000 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
3002 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
3003 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
3006 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
3007 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
3008 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
3009 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
3010 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
3011 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
3012 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
3013 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
3015 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
3016 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3017 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
3018 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
3019 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
3020 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3023 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
3024 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3025 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
3026 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
3027 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
3030 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
3031 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
3032 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
3033 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
3034 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
3035 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
3036 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
3037 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
3039 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
3040 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
3041 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
3042 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
3043 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
3044 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
3045 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
3046 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
3047 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
3048 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
3049 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
3050 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
3051 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
3052 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
3053 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
3054 security, and privacy fixes.
3057 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
3058 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3059 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
3060 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
3063 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
3064 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
3065 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
3066 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
3067 them to solve bug 6033.)
3070 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
3071 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
3072 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
3073 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
3074 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
3075 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3076 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
3077 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
3079 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
3080 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
3081 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
3082 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3084 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
3085 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
3086 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3087 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
3088 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
3089 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
3090 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
3091 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
3092 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
3093 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3094 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
3095 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
3098 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
3099 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
3100 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
3101 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
3102 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3103 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
3104 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
3105 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
3106 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
3107 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
3108 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
3109 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
3110 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
3111 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
3112 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
3115 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
3116 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
3117 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
3118 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
3119 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
3120 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
3121 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
3122 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
3123 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
3124 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
3125 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
3126 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
3127 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
3128 Implements part of proposal 222.
3130 o Minor features (other):
3131 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
3132 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
3133 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
3134 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
3135 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
3136 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
3137 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
3138 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
3139 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3141 o Documentation fixes:
3142 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
3143 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
3144 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
3145 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
3146 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
3147 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
3150 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
3151 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
3152 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
3153 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
3154 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
3155 release of the new branch.
3157 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
3158 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
3159 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
3161 o Major features (security):
3162 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
3163 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
3164 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
3165 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
3166 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
3167 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
3168 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
3169 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
3170 Google Summer of Code.
3171 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
3172 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
3173 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
3174 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
3175 them to solve bug 6033.)
3177 o Major features (other):
3178 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
3179 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
3180 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
3181 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
3182 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
3184 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
3185 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
3186 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
3187 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
3188 Implements ticket 8530.
3189 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
3190 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
3193 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
3194 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
3195 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
3196 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
3197 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
3198 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3199 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
3200 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
3201 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3202 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
3203 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
3204 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
3205 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3208 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
3209 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
3210 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
3211 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
3212 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
3213 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
3214 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
3215 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
3216 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
3217 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
3221 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
3222 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
3223 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
3224 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
3225 invoking the other functions it calls.
3226 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
3227 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
3228 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
3229 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
3231 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
3232 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
3233 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
3234 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
3235 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
3236 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
3237 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
3238 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
3239 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
3240 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
3241 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
3242 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
3243 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
3244 Implements part of proposal 222.
3246 o Minor features (config options):
3247 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
3248 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
3249 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
3250 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
3251 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
3252 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
3253 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
3254 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
3255 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
3256 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
3257 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
3258 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
3259 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
3260 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
3261 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
3262 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
3263 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
3266 o Minor features (build):
3267 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
3268 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
3269 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
3270 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
3271 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
3274 o Minor features (other):
3275 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
3276 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
3277 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
3278 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
3279 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3280 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
3281 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
3282 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
3283 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
3284 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
3285 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
3286 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
3288 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3291 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
3292 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
3293 bugfix on every released Tor.
3294 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
3295 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
3296 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
3297 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
3298 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
3299 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
3301 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
3302 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
3303 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
3304 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3305 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
3306 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
3307 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
3308 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3310 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
3311 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
3312 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
3313 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
3314 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
3316 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
3317 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3319 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
3320 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
3321 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
3323 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
3324 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
3325 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
3326 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
3327 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3329 o Minor code improvements:
3330 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
3331 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
3333 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
3334 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
3335 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
3336 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
3337 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3340 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
3341 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
3342 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
3343 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
3345 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3346 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
3347 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
3348 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3349 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
3350 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
3351 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
3352 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
3353 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
3354 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
3355 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3356 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
3357 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
3358 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
3359 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
3360 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
3363 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
3364 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3365 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
3366 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
3367 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
3368 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
3369 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
3372 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
3373 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
3374 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
3375 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
3376 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
3377 Implements ticket 9574.
3380 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
3381 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
3382 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3383 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
3384 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
3385 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
3386 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
3387 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
3388 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3389 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
3390 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
3391 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
3395 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
3396 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
3397 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
3398 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
3400 o Minor fixes (config options):
3401 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
3402 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
3403 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
3404 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
3405 message is logged at notice, not at info.
3406 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
3407 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
3408 or we just won't work.)
3411 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
3412 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
3413 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
3414 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3417 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
3418 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3419 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
3422 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
3423 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
3424 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3425 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
3426 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3427 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
3428 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
3430 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
3431 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3432 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
3433 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
3436 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
3437 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
3438 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3439 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
3440 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
3441 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
3442 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
3443 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
3444 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
3445 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
3446 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3447 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
3448 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3451 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3454 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
3455 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
3456 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
3457 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
3460 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
3461 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
3462 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3465 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
3466 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
3467 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
3470 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
3471 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
3472 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3475 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
3476 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
3477 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
3478 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
3479 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
3480 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3482 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
3483 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
3484 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
3485 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
3486 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
3487 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3489 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
3490 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
3491 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3494 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
3495 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
3496 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
3497 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
3498 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
3500 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
3501 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
3502 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
3503 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
3504 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
3505 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
3506 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
3508 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
3509 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
3510 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
3512 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
3513 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
3517 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
3518 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
3519 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
3521 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
3522 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
3523 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
3524 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
3525 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
3526 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
3528 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
3529 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
3530 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
3531 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
3532 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
3533 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
3534 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3537 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
3538 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
3539 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
3540 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
3541 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
3542 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
3543 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3544 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
3545 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3546 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
3547 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
3548 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3549 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
3550 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
3552 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
3553 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
3554 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
3555 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
3558 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3559 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
3560 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
3561 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
3562 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
3563 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
3565 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
3566 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
3570 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
3571 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
3572 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
3573 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
3574 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
3575 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
3576 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3578 o Removed documentation:
3579 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
3580 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
3582 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3583 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
3584 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
3585 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
3588 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
3589 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
3590 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
3591 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
3592 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
3593 variety of other issues.
3596 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
3597 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
3598 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
3599 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
3600 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
3601 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
3602 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
3603 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
3605 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
3606 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
3607 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
3609 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
3610 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
3611 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
3612 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3613 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
3614 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
3615 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3617 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
3618 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
3619 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
3620 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
3621 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
3622 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
3623 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
3624 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
3625 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
3626 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
3627 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
3628 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
3629 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3630 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
3631 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
3632 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
3633 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
3634 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
3635 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
3636 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
3637 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3639 o Major bugfixes (other):
3640 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
3641 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
3642 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
3643 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3646 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
3647 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
3648 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
3649 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
3651 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
3652 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
3654 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3656 o Minor features (build):
3657 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
3658 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
3660 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
3661 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
3663 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
3664 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
3665 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
3668 o Minor bugfixes (build):
3669 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
3670 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3671 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3672 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
3673 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
3674 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3675 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
3676 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
3677 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3678 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
3679 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
3680 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
3681 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
3684 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
3685 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
3686 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
3687 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
3688 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
3689 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
3690 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
3691 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
3692 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
3693 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
3694 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
3695 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
3696 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
3697 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3698 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3700 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3701 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
3702 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3703 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
3704 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
3705 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
3706 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
3707 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3708 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
3709 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
3710 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
3711 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
3712 Should help resolve bug 8235.
3713 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
3714 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
3715 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
3716 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3718 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
3719 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
3720 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
3721 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
3722 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
3723 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
3724 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
3725 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
3728 o Minor bugfixes (config):
3729 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
3730 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
3732 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
3733 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
3734 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3735 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
3736 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
3737 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
3738 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3739 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
3740 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
3741 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3742 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
3743 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
3744 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3745 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
3746 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
3749 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
3750 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
3751 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
3752 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
3753 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
3754 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
3755 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
3756 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
3758 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
3759 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
3760 or at least make it more diagnosable.
3761 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
3762 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
3763 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
3764 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3766 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3767 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
3768 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
3769 the relaxed timeout log message.
3770 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
3771 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
3772 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
3774 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
3775 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
3776 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3777 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
3778 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3779 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
3780 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
3783 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
3784 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
3785 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
3786 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
3787 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3788 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
3789 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3790 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
3791 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3792 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
3793 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
3794 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
3795 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3796 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
3797 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
3798 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
3799 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3801 o Documentation fixes:
3802 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
3803 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
3804 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
3805 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
3806 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
3807 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
3808 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
3809 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
3812 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
3813 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
3817 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
3818 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
3819 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
3820 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
3822 o Major features (directory authorities):
3823 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
3824 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
3825 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
3826 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
3827 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
3828 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
3829 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
3830 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
3831 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
3832 Implements ticket 8151.
3834 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3835 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
3836 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
3837 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
3838 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3840 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3841 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
3842 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
3843 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
3844 whether authentication information is present, causing all
3845 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
3846 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
3848 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
3849 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
3850 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
3852 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
3853 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
3854 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
3855 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
3856 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
3857 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
3858 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
3859 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
3860 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
3861 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
3862 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
3863 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
3864 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
3865 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
3866 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
3867 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
3868 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
3869 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
3872 o Minor features (portability):
3873 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
3874 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3875 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
3876 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
3877 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
3878 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
3879 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
3880 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3882 o Minor features (other):
3883 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
3884 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
3885 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
3886 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
3887 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
3888 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
3889 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
3890 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
3892 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3894 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3895 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
3896 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
3897 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
3898 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
3899 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3900 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
3901 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
3902 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
3903 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
3905 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
3906 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
3907 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
3908 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3910 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3911 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
3912 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
3913 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
3914 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
3915 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
3916 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
3918 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
3919 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
3920 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
3921 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
3922 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
3924 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
3925 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
3926 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
3927 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3929 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3930 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
3931 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
3934 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
3935 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
3936 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3937 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
3939 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
3940 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
3941 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
3942 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3944 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
3945 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
3946 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
3948 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
3949 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
3950 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
3951 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
3953 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
3954 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
3955 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3956 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
3957 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
3958 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
3959 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3961 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3962 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
3966 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
3967 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
3968 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
3969 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
3970 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
3973 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3974 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
3975 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
3976 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3978 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
3979 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
3980 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
3984 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
3985 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
3986 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
3987 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
3988 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
3989 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
3990 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
3991 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
3992 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
3993 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
3994 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
3995 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
3996 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
3999 o Major features (relay):
4000 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
4001 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
4002 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
4003 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
4004 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
4005 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
4006 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
4008 o Major features (portability):
4009 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
4010 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
4011 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
4012 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
4013 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4016 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
4017 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
4018 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
4019 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
4020 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
4021 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
4023 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
4024 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
4025 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
4026 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
4027 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
4028 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
4029 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
4030 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
4032 o Minor features (path selection):
4033 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
4034 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
4035 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
4036 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
4037 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
4038 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
4039 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
4040 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
4041 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
4042 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
4043 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
4044 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
4045 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
4046 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
4047 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
4048 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
4049 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
4050 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
4051 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
4053 o Minor features (log messages):
4054 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
4055 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
4056 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
4057 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
4060 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
4061 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
4062 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4063 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
4064 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
4065 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
4066 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
4067 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
4068 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
4069 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4070 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
4071 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4073 o Build improvements:
4074 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
4075 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
4076 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
4077 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
4078 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
4079 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
4080 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
4081 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
4082 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
4083 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
4084 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
4085 than to perform erroneously.
4088 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
4089 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
4090 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
4092 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
4093 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
4094 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
4097 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4098 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
4100 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
4101 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
4105 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
4106 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
4110 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
4111 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
4112 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
4116 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
4117 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
4118 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
4119 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
4122 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
4123 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
4124 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
4125 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
4126 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
4127 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
4128 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
4129 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
4130 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
4131 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
4132 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
4135 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
4136 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
4137 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
4138 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
4139 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
4140 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
4141 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
4142 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
4143 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
4144 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
4145 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
4147 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
4148 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
4149 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
4151 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
4152 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
4153 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
4155 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
4157 o Major features (better link encryption):
4158 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
4159 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
4160 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
4161 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
4162 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
4163 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
4166 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
4167 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
4168 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
4169 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
4170 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
4171 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
4172 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
4174 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
4175 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
4176 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
4177 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
4179 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
4182 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
4183 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
4184 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4187 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
4188 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
4189 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
4190 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
4191 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
4192 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
4193 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
4194 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4195 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4197 o Minor features (testing):
4198 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
4199 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
4200 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
4202 o Minor features (path bias detection):
4203 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
4204 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
4205 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
4206 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
4207 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
4208 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
4209 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
4210 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
4211 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
4212 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
4213 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
4214 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
4215 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
4216 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
4217 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
4218 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
4219 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
4220 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
4221 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
4222 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
4223 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
4224 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
4225 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
4226 detection capability loss.
4228 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
4229 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
4230 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
4231 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
4232 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4233 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
4234 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
4235 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
4238 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4239 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
4240 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
4241 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
4242 and the different handshakes it supports.
4243 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
4244 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
4245 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
4246 any encoding is overkill.
4249 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
4250 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
4251 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
4252 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
4253 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
4254 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
4255 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
4256 and fixes a variety of other issues.
4258 o Major features (client resilience):
4259 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
4260 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
4261 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
4262 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
4263 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
4264 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
4265 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
4266 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
4267 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
4268 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
4269 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
4270 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
4271 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
4272 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
4273 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
4275 o Major features (IPv6):
4276 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
4277 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
4278 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
4279 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
4280 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
4281 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
4282 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
4283 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
4285 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
4286 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
4288 o Major features (geoip database):
4289 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
4290 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
4291 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
4292 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
4293 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
4294 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
4295 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
4296 Country database, as modified above.
4298 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
4299 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
4300 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
4301 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
4302 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
4303 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
4304 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
4305 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
4306 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
4307 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
4308 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
4309 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
4310 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
4311 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
4312 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
4313 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
4314 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
4317 o Major bugfixes (other):
4318 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
4319 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
4320 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
4321 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
4322 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
4323 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
4324 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
4325 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
4327 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
4328 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
4331 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
4332 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
4333 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
4334 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
4335 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
4336 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
4337 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
4338 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
4340 o Minor features (IPv6):
4341 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
4342 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
4343 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
4344 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
4345 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
4346 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
4347 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
4348 connect to the wrong addresses.
4349 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
4350 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
4351 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
4352 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
4356 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
4357 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
4358 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
4360 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
4361 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
4362 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
4364 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
4365 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
4366 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
4369 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
4370 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
4372 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4373 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
4374 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
4375 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
4376 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
4379 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
4380 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
4381 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
4382 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
4383 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
4384 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
4385 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
4386 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
4388 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
4389 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
4390 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
4391 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
4392 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
4393 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
4394 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
4395 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
4396 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
4397 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
4398 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
4401 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4402 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4403 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4404 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4405 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4406 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4407 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4408 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4409 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4410 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4413 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4414 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4418 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
4419 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
4420 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
4421 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
4424 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
4425 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
4427 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
4428 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
4429 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
4430 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
4431 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
4432 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
4433 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
4434 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
4435 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
4436 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
4439 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
4441 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
4442 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
4443 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
4444 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
4445 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
4448 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
4449 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
4450 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4451 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
4452 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
4454 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
4455 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4456 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
4457 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
4458 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
4459 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
4460 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
4462 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
4463 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4464 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
4465 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
4466 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
4467 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4468 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
4469 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4471 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4472 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
4473 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
4474 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
4475 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
4476 present the same extensions.)
4479 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
4480 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
4481 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
4482 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
4483 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
4485 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4486 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4487 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4488 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4490 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4491 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4492 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4493 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4495 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4496 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4497 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4498 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4499 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4500 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4501 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4502 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4503 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4505 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
4506 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4507 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4508 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4509 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4512 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
4513 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
4514 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
4516 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4517 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
4519 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
4520 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
4524 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
4525 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
4526 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
4527 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
4530 o Major bugfixes (security):
4531 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
4532 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
4533 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
4535 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
4536 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
4537 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
4538 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4541 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
4542 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
4543 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
4544 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
4545 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
4546 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
4547 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
4548 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4551 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
4552 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
4553 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
4554 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4557 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
4558 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4559 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
4560 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
4561 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
4562 scheduling algorithms.
4564 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4565 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4566 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4568 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4569 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4570 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4571 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4572 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4573 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4574 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4575 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4576 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4577 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4578 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4580 o Internal abstraction features:
4581 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
4582 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
4583 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
4584 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
4585 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
4586 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
4587 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
4588 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
4589 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
4590 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
4591 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
4592 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
4593 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
4594 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
4595 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
4596 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
4597 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
4599 o Required libraries:
4600 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
4601 strongly recommended.
4604 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
4605 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
4606 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
4607 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
4608 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
4609 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
4610 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
4611 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
4612 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
4614 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
4615 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
4616 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
4617 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4618 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4619 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4620 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4621 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4622 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4623 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4624 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4625 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4626 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4627 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4628 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4631 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
4632 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
4633 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
4634 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
4635 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
4636 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
4637 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
4638 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
4639 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
4640 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
4641 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
4642 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4643 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
4644 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
4645 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4646 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
4647 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
4648 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
4649 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
4651 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
4652 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
4653 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
4654 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
4655 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
4656 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
4657 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
4660 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
4661 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
4662 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
4663 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
4665 o New directory authorities:
4666 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
4667 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
4669 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
4670 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
4671 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
4672 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
4673 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
4674 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
4675 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
4676 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
4677 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
4678 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
4679 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
4682 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4683 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4684 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4686 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
4687 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
4688 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
4689 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4690 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4691 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4692 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4693 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
4694 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
4696 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
4697 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
4698 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
4699 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
4700 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
4701 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
4702 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
4703 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
4704 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
4705 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
4706 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4707 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4708 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4709 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
4710 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4711 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4712 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4713 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4715 o Documentation fixes:
4716 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4719 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
4720 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4721 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
4722 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
4725 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4726 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4727 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4730 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
4731 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
4732 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
4733 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
4734 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
4735 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
4736 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
4737 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4739 o Security features:
4740 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
4741 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
4742 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
4743 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
4744 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
4745 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
4746 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
4747 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
4748 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
4752 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
4753 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
4754 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
4757 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
4758 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
4759 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4760 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
4761 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4762 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
4763 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
4764 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
4765 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
4766 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
4767 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4768 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
4769 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
4770 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
4772 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
4773 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4774 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
4775 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
4776 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
4779 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
4780 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
4781 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4782 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
4783 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
4784 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4785 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
4786 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
4787 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
4788 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
4789 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
4790 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
4791 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4792 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
4793 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
4794 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4795 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
4796 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
4797 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
4799 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4800 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
4801 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
4802 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
4803 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
4804 testable, and a little less fragile too.
4805 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
4806 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4808 o Documentation fixes:
4809 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
4810 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
4814 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
4815 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
4819 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4820 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4821 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4824 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4825 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4829 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
4830 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
4834 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
4835 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
4836 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
4837 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
4838 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
4839 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
4840 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
4844 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
4845 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
4846 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
4847 log messages less noisy.
4850 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
4851 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
4855 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
4856 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
4857 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
4858 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
4859 last time we raised it).
4862 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
4863 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
4865 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
4866 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
4867 part of ticket 6736.
4868 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
4869 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
4870 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
4874 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
4875 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
4876 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4877 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
4878 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
4880 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
4881 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4882 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
4883 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
4884 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4885 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
4886 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
4887 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4888 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
4889 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4890 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
4891 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4894 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
4895 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
4896 bunch of compatibility code.
4899 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
4900 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
4901 the ORPort and the DirPort.
4904 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
4905 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
4906 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
4907 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
4909 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
4910 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
4911 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
4913 o Major features (bridges):
4914 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
4915 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
4916 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
4919 o Major features (IPv6):
4920 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
4921 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
4922 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
4923 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
4924 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
4925 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
4926 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
4927 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
4928 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
4930 o Major features (build):
4931 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
4932 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
4933 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
4934 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
4935 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
4936 fixes by Jim Meyering.
4937 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
4938 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
4939 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
4941 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
4942 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
4943 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
4944 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
4945 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
4946 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
4947 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
4948 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
4949 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
4950 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
4951 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
4953 o Minor features (streamlining);
4954 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
4955 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
4957 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
4958 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
4959 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
4960 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
4961 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
4962 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4964 o Minor features (controller):
4965 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
4967 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
4968 Implements ticket 4971.
4970 o Minor features (IPv6):
4971 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
4972 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
4973 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
4974 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
4975 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
4977 o Minor features (log messages):
4978 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
4979 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
4980 Resolves ticket 6758.
4981 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
4982 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
4983 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
4984 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4985 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
4986 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
4987 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
4989 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
4990 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
4991 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
4992 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
4993 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
4996 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4997 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
4998 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
4999 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
5000 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
5002 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
5003 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
5004 Implements ticket 5529.
5005 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
5006 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
5007 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
5008 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
5009 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
5010 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
5011 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
5012 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
5013 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
5014 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
5017 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
5018 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
5019 from a source distribution.)
5022 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
5023 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5024 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
5025 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
5026 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
5027 and cleans up other smaller issues.
5029 o Major bugfixes (security):
5030 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
5031 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
5032 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
5033 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
5034 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
5035 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
5036 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
5037 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
5038 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
5039 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
5040 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
5041 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5042 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
5043 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
5044 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
5045 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
5049 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
5050 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
5051 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
5052 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5053 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
5054 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
5055 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
5056 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
5057 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
5058 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5061 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
5062 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
5063 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
5064 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
5065 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5066 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
5067 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
5068 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
5069 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
5070 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
5071 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
5073 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
5074 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
5075 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
5077 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
5078 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
5079 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
5080 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
5081 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5082 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
5083 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
5084 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
5085 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5086 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
5087 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5088 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
5089 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
5090 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
5093 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5094 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
5095 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
5096 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
5097 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5098 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
5099 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
5100 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
5101 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
5102 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
5103 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
5104 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
5105 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
5106 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
5107 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5110 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
5111 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
5112 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
5113 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
5114 Resolves ticket 6732.
5117 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
5118 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
5119 attack that could in theory leak path information.
5122 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
5123 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
5124 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5125 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
5126 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
5127 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
5128 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
5129 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
5130 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
5131 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
5132 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
5133 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
5134 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
5135 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
5138 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
5139 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5140 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
5141 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
5144 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
5145 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
5146 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5147 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
5148 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
5149 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5150 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
5151 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
5152 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
5153 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
5154 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
5155 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
5156 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
5157 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
5158 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
5159 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
5160 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
5163 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
5164 a little more useful.
5165 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
5166 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5167 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
5168 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
5169 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
5170 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
5171 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
5174 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
5175 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5176 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
5177 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5178 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
5179 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
5183 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
5184 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
5185 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
5186 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
5187 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
5190 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
5191 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
5192 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
5195 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
5197 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
5199 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5200 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
5201 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
5202 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
5203 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
5206 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
5207 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5208 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
5209 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
5210 since the beginning of Tor.
5213 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
5214 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
5215 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
5216 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
5217 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
5218 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
5219 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
5220 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5221 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
5222 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5225 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
5226 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5229 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
5230 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
5231 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
5232 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
5235 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
5236 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5237 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
5238 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
5239 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
5240 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5242 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5243 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
5244 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
5245 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
5246 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
5247 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
5248 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5249 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
5250 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
5251 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
5252 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
5253 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
5254 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
5255 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5256 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
5257 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
5258 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5259 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
5260 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5263 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
5264 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
5266 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
5267 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5268 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
5269 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
5271 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
5272 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5273 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
5274 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5275 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
5276 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
5277 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5278 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
5279 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5280 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
5281 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5282 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
5283 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
5284 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
5285 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
5286 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
5289 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
5290 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
5291 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
5292 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
5293 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
5296 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
5297 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
5298 options. Closes bug 4748.
5301 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
5302 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
5303 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
5304 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
5305 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
5309 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
5310 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
5312 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
5313 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
5314 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
5315 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
5316 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
5317 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
5318 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
5319 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
5320 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
5323 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
5324 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
5325 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
5326 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
5327 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
5328 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
5329 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
5330 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
5333 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
5334 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
5335 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
5336 case for flushing marked connections.
5337 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
5338 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5339 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
5340 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
5341 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
5342 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
5343 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5344 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
5345 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5346 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
5347 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
5348 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
5349 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
5350 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
5351 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
5352 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
5353 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5354 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
5355 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5356 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
5357 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
5358 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
5359 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5360 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
5361 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
5363 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
5364 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
5365 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
5369 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
5370 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
5371 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
5372 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
5373 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
5374 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
5375 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
5376 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
5377 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
5378 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
5379 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
5380 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
5381 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
5382 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
5383 Addresses ticket 5458.
5384 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5386 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5387 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
5388 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
5391 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
5392 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5393 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5397 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5398 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5399 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5400 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5401 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5402 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5403 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5404 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5405 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5406 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5407 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5410 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5411 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5414 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5415 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5418 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
5419 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
5420 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
5421 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
5422 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5424 o Major bugfixes (general):
5425 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
5426 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
5427 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
5428 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
5429 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
5430 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
5431 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5432 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
5433 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
5435 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
5436 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
5437 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
5438 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
5441 o Major bugfixes (clients):
5442 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
5443 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
5444 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
5445 which introduced predicted ports.
5446 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
5447 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
5448 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
5449 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5450 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
5451 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
5452 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
5453 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
5454 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
5455 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
5456 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5457 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
5458 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
5460 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
5461 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
5462 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
5463 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
5464 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
5465 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
5466 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
5467 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
5468 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
5469 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
5470 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
5474 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
5475 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
5476 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
5477 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
5478 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
5479 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
5480 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
5481 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
5482 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
5483 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
5484 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
5485 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
5486 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
5487 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
5489 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
5490 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
5491 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
5492 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
5493 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
5494 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
5495 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
5496 sure. Closes bug 5139.
5497 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
5498 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
5499 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
5500 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
5501 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
5502 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
5503 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5505 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
5506 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5507 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5508 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5509 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5510 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5511 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5512 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5513 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5514 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5515 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5516 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5517 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5518 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5519 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5520 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5521 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5522 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5523 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5524 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5526 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5527 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
5528 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
5529 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
5530 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
5531 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
5532 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
5533 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
5534 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
5535 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
5536 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
5537 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
5538 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
5540 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
5541 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5542 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
5543 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
5545 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
5546 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
5547 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5548 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
5549 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
5550 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5551 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
5552 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5553 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
5554 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
5556 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
5557 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
5558 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
5560 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5561 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
5562 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
5563 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
5564 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
5565 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
5566 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
5567 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
5568 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5569 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
5570 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
5571 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5572 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
5573 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
5574 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
5575 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5576 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
5577 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
5578 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
5579 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
5581 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
5582 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
5583 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5584 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
5585 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
5586 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
5588 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
5589 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
5590 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
5592 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
5593 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
5594 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5595 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5596 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
5597 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5599 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5600 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
5601 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
5603 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
5604 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
5605 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5606 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
5607 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
5608 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5609 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
5610 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
5611 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5612 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5613 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
5614 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
5615 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
5616 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
5617 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
5618 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
5620 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
5621 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
5622 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5623 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
5624 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
5625 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5626 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
5627 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5628 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
5629 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5630 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
5631 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5632 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
5635 o Documentation fixes:
5636 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
5637 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
5638 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
5639 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
5640 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
5641 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
5644 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
5645 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
5649 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
5650 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
5651 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
5652 and fixes several crash bugs.
5654 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
5655 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
5656 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
5657 those packages and upgrade anyway.
5659 o Directory authority changes:
5660 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5661 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5665 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
5666 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
5667 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
5668 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
5669 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
5670 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
5671 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
5672 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
5673 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
5674 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
5675 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
5676 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5677 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5678 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5679 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5680 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5681 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5682 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5683 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5684 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5685 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5686 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5687 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5688 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5689 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5690 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5691 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
5694 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5695 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5696 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5697 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5699 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
5700 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
5702 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
5703 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
5704 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
5705 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
5706 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
5707 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
5708 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
5709 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
5712 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
5713 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5714 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
5715 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
5716 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
5717 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
5718 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
5719 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
5720 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
5721 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
5722 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
5723 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
5724 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
5725 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
5726 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
5727 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
5728 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
5729 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
5730 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
5731 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
5732 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5733 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5734 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5735 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5736 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5737 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5738 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5739 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
5740 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
5741 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
5742 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
5743 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
5744 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5745 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
5746 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5747 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
5748 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
5749 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
5750 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5751 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5752 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
5753 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5754 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
5755 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
5756 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
5757 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5759 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
5760 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
5761 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
5762 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
5763 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
5764 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
5765 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
5766 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
5767 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
5768 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
5769 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5770 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
5771 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5772 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
5773 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
5776 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
5777 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
5778 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
5779 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
5781 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5784 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
5785 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
5786 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
5787 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
5788 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
5789 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
5790 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
5793 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
5794 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
5795 the development branch build on Windows again.
5797 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5798 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
5799 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
5800 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
5801 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
5802 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
5803 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
5804 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
5805 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5806 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
5807 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
5808 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
5809 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5810 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
5811 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
5813 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
5814 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
5815 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
5816 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5817 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
5819 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
5820 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
5821 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
5822 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
5823 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
5824 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5827 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
5828 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
5829 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
5830 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
5831 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
5832 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
5833 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
5834 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
5835 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
5838 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
5839 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
5840 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
5841 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
5845 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
5846 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
5847 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
5848 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
5850 o Directory authority changes:
5851 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
5855 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
5856 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5857 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
5858 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
5860 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
5861 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
5862 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
5863 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
5865 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
5866 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
5867 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
5869 o Major features (performance):
5870 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
5871 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
5872 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
5873 much faster than other AES implementations.
5875 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
5876 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
5877 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
5878 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
5879 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
5880 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
5881 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
5882 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
5883 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
5884 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
5885 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
5886 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
5887 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
5888 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
5889 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5890 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
5891 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
5892 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5894 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
5895 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
5896 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
5897 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5898 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
5899 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5900 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
5901 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
5902 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
5904 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
5905 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
5906 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5907 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
5908 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
5909 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
5912 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
5913 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
5914 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
5915 please let us know about it.
5916 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
5917 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
5918 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
5919 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
5920 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5921 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5922 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
5923 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
5925 o Default torrc changes:
5926 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
5927 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
5929 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
5930 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
5931 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
5935 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
5936 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
5937 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
5938 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
5941 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
5942 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
5943 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
5944 it would be a bad idea to start.
5947 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
5948 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
5949 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
5950 that get us closer to a release candidate.
5952 o Directory authority changes:
5953 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
5956 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
5957 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
5958 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
5959 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
5960 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
5961 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
5962 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
5963 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
5964 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
5965 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
5966 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
5967 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
5968 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
5969 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
5970 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
5971 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
5973 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
5974 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
5975 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
5976 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
5977 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
5978 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5979 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
5980 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
5981 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5982 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
5983 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
5984 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
5986 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
5987 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
5988 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
5989 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
5990 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
5992 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
5993 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
5994 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
5995 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
5996 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
5997 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
5998 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
5999 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
6000 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
6001 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
6002 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
6003 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
6004 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6005 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
6006 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6007 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
6008 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
6009 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
6010 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
6011 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
6012 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
6013 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
6016 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6017 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
6018 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6019 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
6020 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
6021 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
6022 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
6023 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
6024 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6025 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
6026 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
6027 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
6028 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
6029 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
6030 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
6031 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
6032 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
6035 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
6036 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
6037 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6040 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
6041 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
6042 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
6043 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
6046 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
6047 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
6049 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
6050 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
6051 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
6052 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6053 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
6054 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
6055 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
6056 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6057 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
6058 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
6059 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
6060 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6063 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
6064 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
6065 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
6066 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
6067 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
6068 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
6069 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6072 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
6073 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
6074 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
6075 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6076 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
6077 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
6078 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
6079 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
6080 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
6081 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
6083 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
6084 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
6085 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
6086 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
6087 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6088 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
6089 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
6090 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
6091 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
6094 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6095 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
6096 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
6100 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
6101 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
6102 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
6103 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
6104 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
6105 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
6108 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
6109 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
6110 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
6111 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
6112 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
6113 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
6114 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
6115 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
6117 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
6118 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
6119 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
6120 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
6121 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
6122 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
6123 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
6124 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
6126 o Major security workaround:
6127 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
6128 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
6129 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
6130 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
6131 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
6132 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
6133 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
6134 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
6135 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
6136 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
6137 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
6140 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
6141 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
6142 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
6143 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
6144 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
6145 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
6146 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
6147 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6148 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
6149 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
6150 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
6151 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
6152 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
6154 o Minor features (controller):
6155 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
6156 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
6157 file. Resolves bug 1101.
6158 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
6159 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
6160 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
6161 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
6162 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
6163 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
6165 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
6166 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
6167 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
6168 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
6169 part of ticket 3457.
6170 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
6171 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
6172 circuit-status' control-port command.
6174 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6175 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
6176 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
6177 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
6178 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
6180 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
6181 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
6182 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
6183 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
6184 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
6185 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
6186 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
6188 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
6189 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
6191 o Minor features (other):
6192 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
6193 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
6194 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
6195 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
6196 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
6197 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
6198 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
6199 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
6201 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
6202 them from the other auths.
6203 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
6204 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
6205 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
6206 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
6208 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6210 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6211 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
6212 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
6213 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
6214 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
6215 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
6216 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
6217 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
6218 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
6219 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
6220 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6221 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
6222 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
6223 be disabled using the new
6224 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
6225 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6226 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
6227 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
6228 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
6229 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
6230 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
6231 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
6232 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
6233 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
6234 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
6235 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
6237 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
6238 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
6239 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
6242 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
6243 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
6244 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
6246 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
6247 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
6248 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
6249 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
6250 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6251 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
6252 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6254 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
6255 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
6256 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
6257 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
6258 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
6259 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
6260 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
6261 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
6263 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
6264 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
6265 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
6266 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
6267 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
6268 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
6269 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
6270 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
6271 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
6274 o Minor bugfixes (other):
6275 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
6276 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
6277 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
6278 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
6279 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
6280 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
6281 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
6282 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6283 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
6284 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
6285 accidentally been reverted.
6286 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
6287 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
6288 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
6289 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
6290 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
6291 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
6292 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
6293 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
6294 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
6295 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6296 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
6297 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
6298 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
6299 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
6300 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6301 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
6302 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6303 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
6304 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6307 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
6308 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
6309 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
6310 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
6311 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
6312 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
6313 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
6315 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6316 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
6317 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
6318 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
6319 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
6320 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
6321 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
6323 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
6324 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
6325 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
6326 invalid value, rather than just -1.
6327 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
6328 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
6329 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
6330 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
6331 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
6332 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
6333 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
6337 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
6338 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
6339 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6341 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6342 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6343 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6344 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6345 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6346 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6347 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6348 (which Tor does not do by default).
6350 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6351 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6352 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6353 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6354 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6356 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
6360 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6361 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6362 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6363 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6366 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
6367 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
6368 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
6369 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
6370 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
6371 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
6372 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
6373 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
6374 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
6375 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
6376 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6379 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6382 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
6383 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
6384 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6386 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6387 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6388 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6389 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6390 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6391 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6392 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6393 (which Tor does not do by default).
6395 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6396 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6397 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6398 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6399 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6401 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
6402 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
6403 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
6406 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
6407 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
6408 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
6409 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
6410 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
6412 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
6413 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
6416 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6417 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6418 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6419 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6420 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6421 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6422 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6423 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6425 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6426 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6427 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6428 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6429 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6430 close based on processing a cell on it.
6431 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6432 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6433 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6434 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6435 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6436 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6437 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6438 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
6439 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
6440 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
6441 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6442 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6443 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6444 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6445 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
6448 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6449 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6450 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6451 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6452 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6453 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6454 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6456 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6457 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6458 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6459 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6460 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6461 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6462 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6463 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6464 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6465 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6466 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6467 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6468 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6469 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6470 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
6471 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
6472 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
6473 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
6474 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6475 Reported by "troll_un".
6476 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6477 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6478 Reported by "troll_un".
6479 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6480 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6481 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6482 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6485 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6486 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6487 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6488 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6489 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6490 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6491 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6492 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6493 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6494 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6495 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6497 o Packaging changes:
6498 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6499 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6502 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
6503 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6504 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6505 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6506 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6508 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
6509 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
6511 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6512 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6513 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6514 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6515 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6516 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6517 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6518 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6519 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6522 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6525 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
6526 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
6527 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
6528 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
6529 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
6530 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
6531 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
6534 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
6535 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
6536 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
6537 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
6538 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
6539 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
6540 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
6541 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
6542 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
6543 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
6544 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
6545 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
6546 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
6547 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
6548 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
6549 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
6550 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
6551 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
6552 Resolves ticket 4526.
6553 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
6554 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
6555 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
6556 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
6557 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
6558 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
6559 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
6560 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
6561 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
6562 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
6563 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
6564 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
6565 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
6566 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
6567 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
6568 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
6571 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
6572 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
6573 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
6574 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
6575 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
6576 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
6577 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
6578 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
6579 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
6580 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6582 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
6583 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
6584 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
6585 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
6586 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
6587 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
6588 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
6589 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
6590 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
6592 o Minor features (new/different config options):
6593 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
6594 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
6595 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
6596 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
6597 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
6598 Implements issue 933.
6599 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
6600 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
6601 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
6602 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
6603 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
6604 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
6605 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
6606 appending to the list.
6607 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
6608 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
6609 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
6610 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
6612 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
6613 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
6614 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
6615 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
6616 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
6617 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
6618 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
6619 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
6622 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
6623 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
6624 Resolves ticket 2474.
6625 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
6626 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
6627 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
6628 Required by fix for bug 3460.
6629 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
6630 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
6631 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
6632 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
6633 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
6634 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
6635 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
6636 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
6637 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
6639 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6640 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6641 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6643 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
6645 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
6646 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
6648 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
6649 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
6650 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6651 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6652 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
6653 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
6654 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
6656 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
6657 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
6658 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6659 Reported by "troll_un".
6660 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6661 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6662 Reported by "troll_un".
6663 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6664 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6665 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
6666 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
6668 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
6669 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
6671 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
6672 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
6673 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
6674 with help from wanoskarnet.
6675 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
6676 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6679 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
6680 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
6681 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
6682 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6684 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
6685 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
6686 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
6687 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
6688 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
6689 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
6690 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
6691 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
6694 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
6695 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
6696 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
6697 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
6698 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
6699 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
6700 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
6701 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
6702 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
6705 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6706 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6707 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6708 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6710 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6711 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6712 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6713 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6714 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
6715 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
6716 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
6717 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
6718 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
6719 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
6720 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
6721 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
6722 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
6723 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
6724 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
6725 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
6726 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
6727 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
6728 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
6729 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6730 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6731 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6732 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6733 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
6736 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
6737 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
6738 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
6739 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
6740 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
6741 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6742 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
6743 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
6746 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6747 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6748 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6749 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6750 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6751 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6752 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6753 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6754 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6755 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
6756 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
6757 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
6758 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
6759 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
6760 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
6762 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
6763 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
6764 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6765 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6766 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6767 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6768 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6769 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6770 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
6771 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
6772 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
6773 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6774 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6775 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6776 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6777 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6778 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6780 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6781 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
6782 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
6783 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
6784 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6786 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
6787 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
6788 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
6790 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
6791 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
6792 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
6794 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
6795 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
6797 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
6798 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6801 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6802 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6803 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6804 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6805 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6806 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6807 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6808 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6809 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6810 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6811 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
6812 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
6813 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
6814 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
6816 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
6817 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
6818 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6820 o Packaging changes:
6821 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6822 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6824 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6825 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
6826 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
6827 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
6828 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
6829 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
6830 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
6831 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
6832 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
6835 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
6837 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
6838 ./src/test/bench binary.
6839 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
6840 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
6843 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
6844 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
6845 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
6849 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6850 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6851 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6852 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6853 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6854 close based on processing a cell on it.
6855 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
6856 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
6857 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6858 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
6859 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
6860 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
6861 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
6862 cells were introduced.
6865 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6866 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6869 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
6870 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
6871 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
6872 users. Everybody should upgrade.
6874 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
6875 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
6878 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
6879 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
6880 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
6881 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
6882 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
6883 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
6885 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6886 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6887 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6888 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6889 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6890 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6891 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6892 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6893 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6894 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6895 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6896 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6897 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6898 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6899 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6900 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6901 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6902 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6905 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6906 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
6907 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
6908 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
6909 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
6910 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
6911 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
6912 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
6913 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
6914 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
6915 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
6916 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
6917 Partly fixes bug 3825.
6918 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6919 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6920 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6921 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6922 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6923 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6924 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6926 o Major bugfixes (other):
6927 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6928 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6929 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6930 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6931 Found by "frosty_un".
6932 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
6933 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
6934 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
6935 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
6936 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
6937 immensely in tracking this bug down.
6938 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6939 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6942 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
6943 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6944 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6945 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6946 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6947 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6948 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
6949 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
6950 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6951 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6952 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6953 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6954 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6955 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6956 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6957 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6958 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6959 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6960 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6961 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6962 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6964 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
6965 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
6966 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
6967 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6968 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
6969 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
6970 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
6971 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
6972 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
6973 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
6974 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
6977 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
6978 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
6979 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
6980 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
6981 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6982 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6983 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6984 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6985 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
6986 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
6987 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
6988 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
6989 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
6990 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6992 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6993 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
6994 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
6995 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
6996 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
6997 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
6998 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
6999 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
7002 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
7003 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
7004 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
7006 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
7007 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
7008 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
7009 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
7010 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
7011 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
7012 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
7013 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
7014 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
7015 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
7016 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
7017 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
7018 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
7020 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
7021 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
7022 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
7023 currently connected to them.
7025 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
7026 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
7027 remain; see for example proposal 188.
7029 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
7030 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
7031 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
7032 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
7033 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
7034 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
7035 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
7036 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
7037 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
7038 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
7039 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
7040 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
7041 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
7042 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
7043 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
7044 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
7045 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
7046 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
7049 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
7050 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
7051 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
7052 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
7053 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
7054 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
7055 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
7056 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7057 when bridges were introduced.
7058 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
7059 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
7060 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
7061 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7062 Found by "frosty_un".
7065 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
7066 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
7068 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
7069 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
7070 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
7071 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
7072 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
7073 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
7074 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
7077 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
7078 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
7079 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
7080 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
7081 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
7082 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
7083 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
7084 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
7085 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
7086 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
7087 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
7088 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
7089 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
7090 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
7091 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
7092 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
7093 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
7094 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
7096 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
7097 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
7098 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
7099 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7100 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
7101 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
7102 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
7103 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
7104 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
7105 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
7106 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
7107 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7110 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
7111 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
7112 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
7113 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7116 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
7117 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
7118 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
7119 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
7120 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
7122 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7123 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
7124 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
7125 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
7126 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
7127 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
7128 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
7129 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
7130 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
7131 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
7133 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7134 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
7135 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
7136 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
7137 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
7138 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
7139 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
7140 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
7141 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
7142 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
7143 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
7144 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
7145 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
7146 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
7147 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7148 Found by "frosty_un".
7149 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
7150 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7151 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7152 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7153 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7154 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7155 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
7156 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
7157 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7158 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
7159 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
7160 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
7161 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7162 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7163 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7164 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7165 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7166 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7167 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7169 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7170 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
7171 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
7172 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
7173 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
7174 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
7175 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
7176 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
7178 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
7179 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
7180 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7181 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7182 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
7183 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
7184 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
7185 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
7186 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
7187 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
7188 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
7189 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
7191 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
7192 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7193 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
7194 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7195 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
7196 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7197 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
7198 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
7199 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
7201 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7203 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7204 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7205 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7206 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7207 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7208 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7209 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7210 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7212 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
7213 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
7214 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
7215 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
7216 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
7218 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
7219 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7220 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7221 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
7222 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7225 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
7226 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
7227 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
7228 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
7229 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
7232 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
7233 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
7234 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
7235 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
7236 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
7237 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
7238 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
7239 when bridges were introduced.
7242 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
7243 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
7244 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7246 o Major features (networking):
7247 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
7248 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
7249 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
7250 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
7251 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
7255 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
7256 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
7257 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
7259 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7260 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
7261 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
7262 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
7263 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
7265 o Minor features (diagnostics):
7266 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
7267 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
7270 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
7271 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
7272 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
7273 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
7274 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
7275 listed in the network consensus and republish.
7277 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7278 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
7279 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
7280 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7282 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
7283 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
7284 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
7285 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
7286 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
7287 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
7288 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
7289 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
7290 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
7291 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
7292 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
7294 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7295 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7296 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7297 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
7298 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
7299 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
7300 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
7301 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7302 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7303 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7305 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7306 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7307 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7308 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7309 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7310 fixes part of bug 2442.
7311 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7312 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7313 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7315 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7316 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7317 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7318 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7319 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7321 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
7322 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7323 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7324 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7325 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7328 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
7329 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
7330 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
7334 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
7335 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
7336 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
7337 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
7338 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
7339 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
7340 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
7343 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
7344 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
7345 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
7346 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
7347 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
7348 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
7349 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
7352 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
7353 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
7354 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
7355 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
7356 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
7357 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
7358 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
7359 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
7360 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7363 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
7364 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
7367 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
7368 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
7369 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
7370 reachable from Iran again.
7373 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
7374 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
7375 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7377 o Minor features (security):
7378 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
7379 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
7380 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
7381 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
7382 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
7383 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
7384 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
7385 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
7386 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
7387 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
7390 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
7391 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
7392 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
7393 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
7394 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
7395 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
7396 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
7397 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
7398 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7400 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
7401 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7402 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7403 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7404 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7406 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
7407 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
7408 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
7409 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
7410 fixes part of bug 2442.
7411 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
7412 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
7413 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
7415 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
7416 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
7417 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
7418 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
7419 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7422 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7423 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7424 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
7425 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
7426 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
7427 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
7430 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
7431 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
7432 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
7433 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
7434 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
7435 bufferevent-based networking backend.
7437 o Major features (stream isolation):
7438 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
7439 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
7440 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
7441 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
7442 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
7443 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
7444 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
7445 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
7446 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
7447 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
7448 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
7449 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
7450 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
7451 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
7453 o Major features (other):
7454 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
7455 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
7456 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
7457 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
7458 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
7459 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
7460 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
7461 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
7462 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
7463 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
7464 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
7465 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
7466 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
7468 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7469 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
7471 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
7472 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
7473 Fixes part of bug 3752.
7474 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
7475 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
7476 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
7477 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
7478 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
7479 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
7480 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7481 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
7482 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
7483 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
7484 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
7485 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
7486 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
7487 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
7488 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
7489 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
7490 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
7492 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7493 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7494 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7495 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7496 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7497 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7500 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
7501 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
7502 user. Implements ticket 1692.
7503 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
7504 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
7505 best copy data out of a buffer.
7506 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
7507 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
7508 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
7510 o Minor features (build compatibility):
7511 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
7512 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
7513 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
7515 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7516 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7518 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
7519 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
7520 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7521 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
7522 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
7523 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
7524 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7526 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
7527 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
7528 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
7529 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
7530 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
7532 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
7533 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
7534 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
7537 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
7538 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7539 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7540 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7541 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7542 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7543 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7544 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7545 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7546 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7547 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7548 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7549 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7550 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7551 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7552 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7553 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7554 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7555 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7558 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7559 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
7560 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
7564 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
7565 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
7566 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
7567 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
7568 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
7569 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
7572 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
7573 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
7574 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
7575 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
7576 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
7577 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
7578 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
7579 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
7580 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
7581 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
7583 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
7584 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
7585 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
7586 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
7587 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
7588 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
7589 many many other features and bugfixes.
7592 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
7593 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
7594 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
7597 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7598 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7599 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7600 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
7601 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
7602 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
7603 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
7604 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
7607 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7610 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7611 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7612 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7613 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7614 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7615 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7616 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7617 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7618 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7619 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7620 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7621 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7622 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7623 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7624 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7625 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7626 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7627 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7631 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
7632 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
7633 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
7634 up a variety of recently introduced features.
7637 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
7638 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
7639 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
7640 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
7641 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
7642 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
7643 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
7644 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
7645 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
7646 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
7647 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
7648 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
7649 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
7650 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
7651 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
7652 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
7654 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7655 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
7656 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
7657 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
7658 order. Fixes bug 2798.
7659 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
7660 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
7661 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
7662 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
7663 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
7664 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
7668 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
7669 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
7670 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
7671 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
7673 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
7674 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
7675 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
7676 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
7677 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
7678 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
7679 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
7680 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
7681 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
7682 Implements ticket 3264.
7683 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
7684 implements ticket 3439.
7686 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
7687 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
7688 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
7689 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
7690 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
7691 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
7692 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
7693 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
7694 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
7695 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
7696 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
7697 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
7698 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
7699 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
7700 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
7701 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
7702 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
7703 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
7704 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
7705 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
7706 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
7707 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
7708 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
7709 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
7710 fails. Spotted by coverity.
7711 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
7712 present. Found by coverity.
7713 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
7714 a directory cache that provides them.
7716 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7717 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
7718 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
7719 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
7720 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
7721 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
7723 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
7724 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
7725 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
7726 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7727 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7728 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7729 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
7730 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
7732 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7733 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
7734 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
7735 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
7736 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
7737 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
7738 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
7740 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
7744 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
7745 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
7746 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
7749 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
7750 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
7751 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
7752 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
7755 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
7756 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
7757 discovered by katmagic.
7758 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7759 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7760 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7761 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7762 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7763 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7764 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7765 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7766 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
7767 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
7768 fixes part of bug 3465.
7769 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
7770 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
7774 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7777 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
7778 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
7779 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
7780 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
7781 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
7784 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
7785 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
7786 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
7787 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
7788 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
7791 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7792 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7793 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7794 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7795 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7796 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7799 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
7800 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
7801 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
7802 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7803 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7804 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
7805 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
7806 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
7807 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
7808 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
7809 fixes part of bug 3407.
7810 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7811 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
7812 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
7813 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
7814 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
7815 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
7816 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
7817 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
7818 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
7819 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
7821 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
7822 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
7823 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
7824 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
7827 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7829 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7830 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
7831 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
7833 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
7835 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
7838 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
7839 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
7840 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
7841 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
7842 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
7843 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
7847 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
7848 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
7849 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
7850 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7851 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
7852 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
7853 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
7855 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
7856 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
7857 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
7858 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
7859 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
7860 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
7861 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
7862 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
7863 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
7864 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
7865 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
7866 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
7867 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
7868 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
7869 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
7870 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
7871 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
7872 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
7873 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
7877 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
7878 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
7879 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
7880 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
7881 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
7882 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
7883 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
7884 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
7885 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
7889 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7890 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
7891 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
7893 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
7895 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
7896 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
7897 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
7898 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
7899 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7900 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
7901 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
7902 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
7903 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
7905 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
7906 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7907 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
7908 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
7909 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
7910 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
7912 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
7913 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
7915 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
7916 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
7917 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7920 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
7921 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
7922 Resolves ticket 3252.
7923 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
7924 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
7925 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
7926 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
7927 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
7928 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7931 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7932 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7935 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
7936 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
7937 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
7940 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
7941 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7942 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
7943 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
7944 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
7947 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
7948 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
7949 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
7950 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
7951 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
7952 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
7953 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
7954 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
7955 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
7959 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
7960 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
7961 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
7962 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
7963 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
7965 o Security/privacy fixes:
7966 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
7967 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
7968 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
7969 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
7970 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
7971 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
7972 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
7973 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7974 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7975 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7976 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7977 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7978 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
7979 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
7980 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7983 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
7984 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
7985 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
7986 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
7987 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
7988 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
7989 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
7990 part of ticket 3076.
7991 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
7992 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
7993 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
7997 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
7998 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
7999 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
8000 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
8001 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
8002 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
8003 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
8004 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
8006 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
8007 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
8008 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
8009 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
8010 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
8011 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
8012 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
8013 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
8014 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
8015 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
8016 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
8017 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
8018 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8021 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
8022 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
8023 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
8024 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
8025 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
8026 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
8027 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
8029 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
8030 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
8031 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
8032 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
8033 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
8034 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
8035 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
8036 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
8037 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
8038 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
8039 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
8040 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
8041 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
8042 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
8043 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
8044 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
8046 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
8047 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
8049 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
8050 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
8052 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
8053 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
8055 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
8056 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
8057 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8059 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
8060 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
8061 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
8062 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
8063 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8064 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
8065 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
8066 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
8067 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
8068 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
8069 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
8071 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
8072 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
8073 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
8074 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
8075 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
8076 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
8077 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
8078 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
8079 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
8080 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
8081 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8082 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
8083 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
8087 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
8088 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
8089 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
8093 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
8094 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
8095 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
8096 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
8097 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
8098 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
8100 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
8101 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
8102 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
8105 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
8106 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
8107 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
8108 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
8109 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
8110 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
8111 zero-copy transports where available.
8112 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
8113 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
8114 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
8115 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
8116 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
8117 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
8118 debug it as it breaks.
8119 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
8120 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
8121 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
8122 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
8123 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
8124 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
8125 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
8126 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
8127 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
8128 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
8129 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
8130 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
8131 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
8132 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
8133 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
8134 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
8135 PortForwarding option.
8136 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
8137 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
8138 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
8139 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
8140 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
8141 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
8142 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
8145 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
8146 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
8147 Implements enhancement 1668.
8148 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
8150 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
8151 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
8152 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
8153 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
8154 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
8155 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
8156 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
8158 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
8159 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
8160 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
8161 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
8162 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
8163 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
8164 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
8166 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
8167 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
8168 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
8169 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
8170 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
8171 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
8172 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
8174 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
8175 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
8176 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
8177 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
8178 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8179 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
8180 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
8181 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
8182 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
8183 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
8184 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
8185 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
8186 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
8187 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
8188 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
8191 o Minor features (controller):
8192 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
8193 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
8194 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
8195 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
8196 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
8197 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
8198 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
8201 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
8202 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
8203 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
8204 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
8205 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
8206 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
8207 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
8208 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
8210 o Minor packaging issues:
8211 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
8212 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
8214 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8215 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
8216 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
8217 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
8218 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
8219 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
8220 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
8221 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
8222 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
8223 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
8224 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
8225 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
8226 our library structure used to force them to link it.
8229 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
8230 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
8231 are no longer in use as servers.
8233 o Documentation fixes:
8234 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
8235 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
8236 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
8240 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
8241 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
8242 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
8243 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
8244 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
8245 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
8246 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
8247 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
8248 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
8249 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
8252 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
8253 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
8254 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
8255 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
8256 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
8257 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
8258 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
8259 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
8260 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
8261 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8262 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
8263 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
8264 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8265 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
8266 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
8267 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
8269 o Security and stability fixes:
8270 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
8271 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
8272 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
8273 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
8274 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
8275 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
8276 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
8277 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
8278 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
8279 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
8280 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
8281 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
8282 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8283 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
8284 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
8285 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8288 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
8289 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
8290 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
8291 contributions to the network.
8293 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
8294 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
8295 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
8296 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
8297 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
8298 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
8299 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
8300 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
8301 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
8302 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
8303 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
8304 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
8305 connections to directory servers.
8306 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
8307 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
8308 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
8309 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
8310 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
8311 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
8312 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
8313 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
8314 information, or fetch directory information.
8315 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
8316 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
8317 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
8318 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
8319 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
8320 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
8321 unless you really want your Tor to break.
8322 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
8323 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
8324 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
8325 - When StrictNodes is 1:
8326 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
8327 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
8328 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
8329 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
8330 reachability self-tests.
8331 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
8332 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
8333 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
8334 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
8335 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8336 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
8337 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
8339 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
8340 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8341 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
8342 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
8343 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
8344 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8345 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
8346 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
8347 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
8348 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
8349 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
8352 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
8353 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
8354 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
8355 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
8356 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
8357 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
8358 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
8359 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
8360 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
8361 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
8362 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
8363 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8364 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
8365 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
8366 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
8367 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
8368 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
8370 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
8371 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
8372 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
8373 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
8374 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8375 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
8376 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8377 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
8378 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8379 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
8380 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
8381 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
8382 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
8383 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
8384 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
8385 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8386 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
8387 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
8388 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
8389 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
8392 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
8393 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
8394 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
8395 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
8396 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
8397 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
8398 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
8399 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
8400 Required by fix for bug 3000.
8401 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
8402 by fix for bug 3000.
8403 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
8404 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
8406 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8407 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
8408 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
8409 send a body too). Since only server versions before
8410 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
8411 keep the workaround in place.
8412 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
8413 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
8414 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
8415 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
8416 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
8417 want to do it differently.
8418 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
8419 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
8420 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
8421 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
8422 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
8426 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
8427 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
8428 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
8429 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
8430 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
8433 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
8434 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
8435 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
8436 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
8437 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
8439 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
8440 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
8441 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
8442 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
8443 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
8444 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
8445 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
8446 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
8447 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
8448 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
8449 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
8450 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
8453 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
8454 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
8455 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
8456 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
8457 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
8458 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
8459 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
8461 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
8462 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
8463 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
8464 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
8465 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
8466 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
8467 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
8468 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
8469 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
8470 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
8471 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
8472 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
8473 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
8474 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
8475 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
8476 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
8477 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8478 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
8479 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
8480 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
8481 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
8482 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
8483 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8486 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
8488 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
8489 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
8490 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
8492 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
8493 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
8494 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
8495 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
8497 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
8498 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
8499 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
8500 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8503 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
8504 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
8506 o Documentation changes:
8507 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
8508 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
8510 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
8513 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
8514 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
8515 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
8516 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
8517 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
8518 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
8521 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8522 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8523 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8524 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8525 the rest of bug 1074.
8526 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
8527 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
8528 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8529 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
8530 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
8531 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
8532 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8533 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8534 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8535 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8536 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8537 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8538 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8539 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8542 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
8543 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
8544 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
8545 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
8546 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
8547 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
8548 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
8549 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
8550 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
8551 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
8552 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
8553 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
8554 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
8555 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
8557 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
8558 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
8559 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
8560 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
8561 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
8562 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
8564 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
8565 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
8566 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
8567 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
8568 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
8569 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
8570 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
8571 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
8572 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
8574 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
8575 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
8576 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
8577 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
8578 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
8579 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
8580 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
8581 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
8582 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
8583 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
8584 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
8585 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
8586 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
8587 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8588 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
8589 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
8591 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
8592 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
8593 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
8594 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
8595 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
8596 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
8598 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
8599 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
8600 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
8602 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
8603 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
8604 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
8605 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
8606 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
8607 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
8608 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
8610 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
8611 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
8612 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
8613 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
8614 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
8618 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
8619 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
8620 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
8621 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
8622 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
8623 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
8624 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
8625 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
8626 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
8627 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
8628 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
8629 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
8631 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8633 o Minor features (log subsystem):
8634 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
8635 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
8636 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
8638 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
8639 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
8641 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
8642 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
8643 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
8646 o Packaging changes:
8647 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8648 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8649 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8652 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
8653 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
8654 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
8655 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8656 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8657 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
8660 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8661 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
8662 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
8663 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
8664 the rest of bug 1074.
8665 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8666 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8668 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
8669 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
8670 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
8671 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
8672 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
8673 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
8674 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8677 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8679 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8682 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8683 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8684 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
8685 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
8686 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
8687 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
8688 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
8689 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
8690 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
8691 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
8692 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8694 o Packaging changes:
8695 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
8696 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
8697 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
8698 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
8699 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
8700 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
8703 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
8704 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
8705 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
8706 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
8707 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
8708 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
8711 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
8712 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8714 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
8715 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
8716 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
8717 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
8720 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
8722 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
8723 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
8724 Implements ticket 2432.
8727 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
8728 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
8729 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
8732 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
8733 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
8734 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
8735 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
8736 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
8737 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8739 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8740 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8741 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8742 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8744 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8745 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8746 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8747 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8748 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8749 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8750 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8751 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8753 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8754 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8755 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8756 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8757 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8758 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8759 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8760 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8761 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8762 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8763 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8764 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8765 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8766 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8769 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
8770 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8771 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8772 bug reported by doorss.
8773 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8774 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8775 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8776 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8777 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8779 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8780 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8781 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8782 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
8783 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8785 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8786 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8787 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8789 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
8790 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8791 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8792 Automake 1.7 or later.
8793 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8794 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8795 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8796 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8798 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8799 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
8800 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
8803 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8804 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
8805 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
8806 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
8808 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8809 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
8810 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
8811 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
8812 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
8813 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
8814 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
8815 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
8816 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
8818 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
8819 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
8820 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
8823 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8824 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
8825 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
8826 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
8827 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
8828 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
8829 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
8830 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
8831 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
8832 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
8833 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
8834 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
8835 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
8837 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
8838 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
8842 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
8843 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
8844 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
8845 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
8846 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
8848 o Major bugfixes (security):
8849 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
8850 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
8851 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
8853 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
8854 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
8855 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
8856 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
8857 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
8858 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
8859 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
8860 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8862 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8863 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8864 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8865 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8866 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8867 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8868 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8869 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8870 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8871 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8872 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8873 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8874 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8875 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8878 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8879 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8880 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8881 bug reported by doorss.
8882 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8883 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8884 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8885 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8886 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8888 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8889 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8890 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8891 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
8892 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8893 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8894 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8895 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8896 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8899 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8900 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8903 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8904 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8905 Automake 1.7 or later.
8908 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
8909 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8910 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
8911 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
8912 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
8915 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8916 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8917 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8918 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8919 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
8920 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
8921 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
8922 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
8923 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
8924 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
8925 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
8927 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
8928 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
8929 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
8930 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
8932 o Directory authority changes:
8933 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8936 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
8937 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
8938 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
8939 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
8940 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
8941 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
8942 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
8943 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
8944 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
8947 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8948 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
8949 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
8950 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
8951 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
8952 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
8953 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
8954 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
8955 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
8956 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
8960 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
8961 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8962 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
8963 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
8967 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8968 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8969 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8970 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8972 o Directory authority changes:
8973 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8976 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8979 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
8980 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8981 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
8982 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
8983 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
8986 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8987 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8988 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8989 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8990 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8991 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8992 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8993 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8994 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8995 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8996 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8997 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8998 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8999 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
9000 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
9001 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
9002 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
9003 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9004 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
9005 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
9006 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
9007 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
9008 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
9011 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
9012 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
9013 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
9014 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
9016 o New directory authorities:
9017 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
9021 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
9022 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
9023 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
9025 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
9026 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9027 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
9028 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
9029 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
9030 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
9032 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
9033 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
9034 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
9037 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
9038 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
9039 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
9040 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
9041 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
9042 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
9043 Patch from mingw-san.
9046 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
9047 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
9048 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
9049 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
9050 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
9051 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
9054 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
9055 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
9056 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
9059 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
9060 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
9061 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
9062 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
9063 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9066 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
9067 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
9068 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
9069 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
9070 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
9071 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
9072 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
9073 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
9074 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
9077 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
9078 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
9079 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
9080 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
9081 to a stable release.
9084 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
9085 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
9086 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
9087 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9088 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
9089 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
9090 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
9091 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
9092 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
9093 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
9094 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
9095 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
9096 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
9097 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
9098 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
9099 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
9100 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
9101 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
9102 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
9103 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
9104 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
9105 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
9106 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
9107 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
9108 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
9109 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
9110 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
9111 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
9112 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
9113 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
9114 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
9117 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9118 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
9119 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
9120 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
9121 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
9122 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
9123 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
9124 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
9125 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
9126 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
9127 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
9128 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
9129 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
9130 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9131 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
9132 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
9133 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
9135 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
9136 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
9137 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
9138 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
9139 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
9141 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
9142 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
9143 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
9144 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
9147 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
9148 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
9149 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
9150 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
9151 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
9152 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
9153 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
9154 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9156 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9157 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
9158 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
9159 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
9160 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
9161 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
9162 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
9163 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
9164 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
9165 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
9166 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
9167 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
9168 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
9169 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
9170 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
9173 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
9174 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
9175 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
9176 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
9177 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
9178 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
9179 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
9180 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
9181 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
9184 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
9185 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
9186 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
9187 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
9188 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
9190 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
9191 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
9192 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
9193 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
9194 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
9195 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
9196 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9197 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
9198 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
9199 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
9200 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
9201 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
9202 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
9203 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
9205 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9206 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
9208 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
9209 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
9210 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
9211 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
9212 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
9213 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
9214 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
9215 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
9216 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
9217 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
9218 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
9219 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
9220 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
9221 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
9222 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
9223 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
9224 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
9225 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9227 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
9228 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
9229 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
9230 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
9231 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
9232 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
9233 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
9234 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
9235 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
9236 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
9237 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
9238 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
9239 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
9241 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
9242 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
9243 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
9244 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9247 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
9248 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
9249 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
9250 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
9251 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
9252 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
9253 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
9254 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
9255 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
9256 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
9257 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
9258 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
9259 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
9260 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
9261 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
9262 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
9263 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
9264 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
9265 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
9268 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9269 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
9270 based on the time during which we were active and not in
9271 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
9272 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
9273 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
9274 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
9275 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9277 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9278 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
9279 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
9280 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
9281 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
9282 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
9283 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
9284 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
9285 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
9286 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
9289 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
9290 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
9291 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
9292 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
9294 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
9295 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
9296 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
9297 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
9298 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
9299 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
9300 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
9301 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
9302 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
9303 the longest-lived bug prize.
9304 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
9305 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
9306 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
9307 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
9308 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
9309 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
9311 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
9312 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
9313 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
9314 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
9315 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
9316 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
9320 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9321 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
9322 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
9323 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
9324 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
9325 got suppressed since the last warning.
9326 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
9327 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
9328 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
9329 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
9330 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
9331 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
9332 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
9333 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
9334 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
9335 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
9336 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
9337 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
9338 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
9339 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
9340 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
9341 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
9342 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
9343 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
9344 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
9346 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
9347 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
9348 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
9350 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9351 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
9352 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
9353 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
9354 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
9355 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
9356 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
9357 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
9358 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
9359 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
9360 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
9361 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
9362 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
9363 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
9364 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
9366 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
9367 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
9368 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
9369 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
9370 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
9371 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9372 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
9374 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
9375 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
9376 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
9377 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
9378 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
9381 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9382 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
9383 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
9384 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
9385 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
9386 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
9387 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
9388 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
9389 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
9390 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
9391 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
9392 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
9393 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
9394 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
9395 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
9396 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
9397 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
9398 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
9401 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
9404 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
9405 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
9406 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
9407 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
9408 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
9412 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
9413 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
9414 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
9415 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
9416 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
9417 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
9418 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
9419 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
9420 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
9421 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
9422 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
9423 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
9424 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
9425 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
9426 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
9427 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
9428 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
9431 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
9432 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
9433 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
9434 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
9435 they first get the Guard flag.
9436 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
9440 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9441 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
9442 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
9443 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
9444 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
9445 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
9446 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
9447 Patch from mingw-san.
9448 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
9449 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
9451 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
9452 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
9453 Implements enhancement 1790.
9455 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
9456 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
9457 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
9458 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
9459 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
9460 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
9461 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
9462 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
9463 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
9464 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
9465 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
9466 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
9467 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
9468 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
9469 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
9470 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
9471 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
9472 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
9473 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
9474 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
9476 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
9477 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
9478 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
9479 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
9480 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
9481 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
9482 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
9483 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
9484 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
9485 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
9486 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
9487 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
9488 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
9490 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
9491 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
9492 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
9493 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
9494 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
9495 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9497 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9498 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
9499 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
9500 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
9501 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
9502 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
9503 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
9504 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9505 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
9506 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
9507 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
9508 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
9510 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
9511 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
9512 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
9513 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
9514 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
9515 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
9516 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
9518 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
9520 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
9521 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9522 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
9523 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
9524 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
9525 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
9527 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9528 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
9529 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
9530 structures and defines in or.h for now.
9531 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
9532 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
9533 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
9534 statistics code to be more easily tested.
9535 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
9536 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
9537 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
9540 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
9541 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
9542 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
9543 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
9544 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
9545 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
9549 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
9550 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
9551 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
9552 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
9553 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
9554 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
9555 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
9556 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
9557 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
9558 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
9559 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
9560 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
9561 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
9563 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
9564 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
9565 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
9566 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
9567 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
9568 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
9569 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
9570 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
9571 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
9572 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
9573 can be controlled by the consensus.
9576 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
9577 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
9578 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
9579 more accurate data for many African countries.
9580 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
9581 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
9582 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9583 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
9584 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
9585 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
9586 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
9587 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
9588 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
9589 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
9590 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
9591 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
9593 o New directory authorities:
9594 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
9598 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
9599 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
9600 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
9601 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
9602 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
9603 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
9604 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
9605 what should go in a patch.
9606 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
9607 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
9608 over our stored history.
9609 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
9610 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
9611 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
9612 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
9613 file. Fixes bug 1296.
9614 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
9615 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
9616 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
9620 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
9622 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
9623 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
9624 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
9625 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
9626 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
9627 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
9628 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
9629 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
9630 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
9631 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
9632 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
9633 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9634 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
9635 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
9636 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
9637 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
9638 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
9639 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
9640 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
9641 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
9642 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
9643 two-hop circuits are actually created.
9644 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
9645 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9646 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
9647 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9650 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
9651 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9652 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9653 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9654 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9656 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
9657 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9660 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9661 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9662 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9663 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9664 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9665 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9666 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9667 their directory fetches over TLS).
9668 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9669 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9670 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9671 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9672 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9673 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9674 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9675 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9678 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9679 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9683 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9684 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9685 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9686 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9687 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9688 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9689 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9692 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
9693 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
9694 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
9695 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
9696 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
9699 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
9700 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
9701 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
9702 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
9703 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
9704 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
9705 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
9706 their directory fetches over TLS).
9709 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
9710 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
9712 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
9713 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
9714 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
9715 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
9716 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
9717 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
9718 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
9719 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
9720 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
9721 hour of their uptime.
9724 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
9725 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
9726 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
9730 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
9731 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
9732 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
9733 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
9734 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
9735 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
9737 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
9738 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
9739 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
9741 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
9742 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
9746 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
9747 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
9748 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
9752 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
9753 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
9754 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
9757 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
9758 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
9759 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
9760 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
9761 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
9762 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
9763 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
9764 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
9765 about the option without breaking older ones.
9766 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
9767 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
9768 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
9769 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
9772 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
9773 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
9774 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
9775 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
9777 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
9778 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
9779 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
9782 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
9783 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
9785 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
9786 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
9787 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
9788 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
9789 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
9790 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
9791 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9792 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
9793 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
9794 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
9795 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
9798 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
9799 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9800 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
9801 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
9802 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
9803 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
9804 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9807 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
9808 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
9809 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
9810 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
9811 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
9812 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
9815 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9816 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9817 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9818 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
9820 o Major features (performance):
9821 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
9822 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
9823 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
9824 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
9825 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
9826 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
9827 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
9829 o Minor features (performance):
9830 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
9831 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
9832 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
9833 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
9834 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
9838 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
9839 speeds up the build considerably.
9841 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
9842 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
9843 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9844 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
9845 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9846 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
9847 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
9848 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9850 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
9851 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9852 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9854 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9855 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9856 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9857 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9859 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9860 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
9861 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
9862 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
9863 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
9864 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
9867 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
9868 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
9869 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
9871 o Directory authority changes:
9872 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
9873 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
9874 service directory authority) from the list.
9877 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
9878 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
9879 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
9880 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
9881 libraries in a security patch.
9882 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
9883 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
9884 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
9885 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
9887 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
9888 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
9889 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
9890 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
9891 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9892 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9893 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9896 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
9897 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
9898 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
9899 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
9900 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
9901 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
9902 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
9903 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
9904 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
9905 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
9906 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
9907 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
9908 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
9910 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
9911 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
9912 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
9913 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
9914 control-spec.txt said they were.
9915 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
9916 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
9917 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
9918 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
9919 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9921 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9922 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
9923 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
9925 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
9926 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
9927 iPhone SDK versions.
9928 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
9929 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
9930 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
9931 projects directory in svn.
9932 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
9933 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
9934 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
9938 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
9939 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
9940 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
9942 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
9943 to the circuit build timeout.
9944 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
9945 arguments we do not recognize.
9946 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
9947 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
9948 open() without checking it.
9951 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
9952 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
9953 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
9954 several minor potential security bugs.
9957 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
9958 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
9959 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
9960 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
9961 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
9962 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
9963 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
9966 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
9967 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
9969 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
9970 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
9971 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
9972 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
9976 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
9977 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
9981 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
9982 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
9983 customized patches to run/build.
9986 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
9987 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
9988 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
9991 o Major bugfixes (performance):
9992 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
9993 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
9994 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
9995 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
9996 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
9997 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
9998 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
10001 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
10002 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
10003 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
10004 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
10005 libraries in a security patch.
10006 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
10007 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
10008 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
10009 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
10012 o Directory authority changes:
10013 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
10014 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
10015 service directory authority) from the list.
10018 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
10019 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
10022 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
10023 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
10024 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
10025 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
10026 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
10029 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
10030 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
10031 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
10035 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
10036 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
10037 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
10038 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
10039 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10042 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
10043 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
10044 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
10048 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
10049 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
10050 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
10051 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
10052 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
10054 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
10055 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
10057 o Directory authority changes:
10058 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
10061 o Major features (performance):
10062 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
10063 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
10064 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
10065 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
10066 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
10067 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
10068 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
10069 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
10070 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
10071 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
10072 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
10073 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
10074 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
10076 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
10077 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
10078 but never per-conn write limits.
10079 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
10080 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
10081 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
10082 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
10084 o Major features (relay selection options):
10085 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
10086 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
10087 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
10088 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
10089 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
10090 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
10091 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
10093 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
10094 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
10096 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
10097 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
10098 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
10099 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
10100 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
10101 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
10102 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
10103 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
10104 the network changes.
10107 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
10108 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
10109 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10112 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
10113 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
10114 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
10115 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
10116 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
10117 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
10118 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
10119 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
10120 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
10121 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
10122 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
10123 generated while acting as a relay.
10124 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
10125 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
10126 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
10127 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
10128 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
10129 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
10131 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
10132 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
10133 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10134 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
10135 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
10136 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
10139 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
10140 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
10141 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
10143 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
10144 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
10145 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
10147 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
10148 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
10150 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
10151 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
10152 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
10154 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
10155 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
10158 o Minor bugfixes (other):
10159 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
10160 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
10161 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
10162 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
10163 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
10164 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
10165 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
10166 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
10168 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
10171 o Removed features:
10172 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
10173 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
10174 hidden service usage.
10177 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
10178 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
10179 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
10180 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
10181 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
10183 o Directory authority changes:
10184 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
10188 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
10189 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
10190 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10193 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
10194 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
10195 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
10196 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
10197 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
10200 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
10201 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
10202 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
10203 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
10204 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
10205 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
10206 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
10209 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
10210 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
10211 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10212 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
10213 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
10214 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
10216 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
10217 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
10220 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
10221 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
10222 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
10223 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
10224 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
10225 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
10228 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
10229 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
10230 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
10232 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
10233 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
10234 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
10235 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
10236 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
10237 download consensus + microdescriptors".
10238 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
10239 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
10240 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
10241 hash algorithm in the future.
10242 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
10243 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
10244 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
10245 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
10246 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
10247 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
10248 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
10249 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
10250 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
10253 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
10254 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
10255 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
10256 won't work unless we say we are.
10259 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
10260 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
10261 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
10262 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
10263 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
10264 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
10265 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
10266 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
10267 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10268 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
10269 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
10270 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
10271 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
10272 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
10273 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
10274 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
10275 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
10276 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
10277 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
10278 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
10279 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
10280 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
10283 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
10284 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
10285 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
10286 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
10288 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
10289 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
10291 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
10292 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
10293 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
10294 in the Vidalia Settings window.
10297 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
10298 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
10299 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
10300 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
10301 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10303 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10304 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10306 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
10307 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
10308 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
10311 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10312 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10313 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10315 o New directory authorities:
10316 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10318 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10321 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
10322 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10324 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10325 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10326 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10327 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10328 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10329 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10330 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10331 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10332 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10333 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10334 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10335 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10336 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10337 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10338 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10339 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10340 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10342 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10343 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10344 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
10346 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10347 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10351 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10352 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10353 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10354 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10355 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10358 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
10359 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10362 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10364 o Directory authorities:
10365 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
10369 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
10370 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
10371 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
10372 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
10373 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
10376 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
10377 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
10378 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
10379 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
10381 o New directory authorities:
10382 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
10385 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
10386 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
10387 SSL handshake issues.
10388 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
10389 during the TLS handshake.
10390 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
10391 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
10392 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
10393 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
10394 none of which are very big.
10397 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
10399 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
10400 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10401 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
10402 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
10403 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10404 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
10405 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
10406 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10409 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10410 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
10411 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
10412 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
10413 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
10416 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
10417 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10420 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
10421 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
10424 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
10425 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
10426 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10429 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
10430 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
10431 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
10432 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
10433 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
10434 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
10437 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
10438 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
10439 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
10440 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
10441 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
10442 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
10443 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
10444 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
10445 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
10446 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
10447 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
10448 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
10449 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
10450 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
10451 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
10452 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
10453 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
10454 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
10457 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
10458 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
10462 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
10463 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
10464 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10465 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
10466 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
10467 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
10468 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10469 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
10470 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
10471 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
10472 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10473 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
10474 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
10475 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
10476 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
10477 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
10478 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
10479 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
10480 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
10481 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
10482 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
10484 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
10485 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
10486 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
10487 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10488 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
10489 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
10491 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
10492 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
10493 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
10496 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
10497 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
10498 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
10499 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
10500 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
10501 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
10504 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
10505 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
10506 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
10507 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
10508 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
10511 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
10512 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
10513 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
10516 o New directory authorities:
10517 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
10521 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
10522 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
10523 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
10524 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
10525 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
10528 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
10529 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
10530 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
10531 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
10532 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
10535 o New options for gathering stats safely:
10536 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
10537 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
10538 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
10539 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
10540 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
10541 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
10542 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
10543 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10544 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
10546 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
10547 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
10548 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10549 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
10551 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
10552 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
10553 their extra-info documents.
10556 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
10557 source files Tor was built with.
10558 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
10559 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
10560 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
10561 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
10562 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
10563 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
10565 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
10566 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
10567 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
10568 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
10569 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
10571 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
10572 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
10575 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
10576 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
10577 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
10578 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
10579 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
10581 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
10582 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
10584 o Deprecated and removed features:
10585 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
10586 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
10587 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
10588 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
10589 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
10590 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
10591 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
10592 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
10594 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
10595 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
10596 via application-level web tricks.
10598 o Packaging changes:
10599 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
10600 installer bundles. See
10601 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
10602 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
10603 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
10604 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
10605 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
10606 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
10607 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10608 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
10609 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
10610 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
10611 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
10612 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
10615 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
10616 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
10617 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
10620 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
10621 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
10622 part of patch provided by "optimist".
10625 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
10626 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
10627 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
10628 and confuse fewer users.
10631 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
10632 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
10633 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
10634 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
10635 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
10636 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
10637 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
10640 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
10641 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
10642 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
10643 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
10644 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
10645 other features and bug fixes.
10648 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
10651 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
10652 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
10653 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
10654 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
10655 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
10658 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
10659 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
10660 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
10661 failure message (oops).
10664 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
10665 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
10666 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
10667 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
10671 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
10672 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
10673 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
10674 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
10675 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
10676 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
10677 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
10678 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
10679 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
10680 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
10681 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
10682 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
10683 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
10684 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
10685 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
10688 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
10689 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10690 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
10691 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
10692 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
10693 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
10694 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
10695 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
10696 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
10697 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
10698 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
10699 Workaround for bug 1024.
10700 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
10704 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
10705 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
10706 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
10709 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
10711 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10712 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10713 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10714 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10715 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10718 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10719 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10720 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10721 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10722 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10723 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10724 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10725 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10726 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10727 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10730 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10731 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10732 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
10733 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10734 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10735 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10736 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10737 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10740 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
10741 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
10742 a bunch of minor bugs.
10745 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
10746 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
10747 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
10749 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
10750 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
10751 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
10752 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
10754 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
10758 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10759 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
10760 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
10762 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10763 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
10765 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
10766 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
10768 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
10769 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
10770 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
10771 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
10772 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
10773 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
10774 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
10775 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10778 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
10779 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
10781 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
10782 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
10783 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
10784 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
10785 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
10789 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
10790 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10791 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
10792 of more minor bugs.
10794 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10795 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
10796 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
10797 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
10799 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
10800 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
10801 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
10802 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10803 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
10804 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
10805 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
10806 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
10807 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
10808 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
10809 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
10810 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10811 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
10812 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
10813 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
10814 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
10815 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
10817 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
10818 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
10819 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
10820 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10822 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10823 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
10824 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10827 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
10828 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
10829 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
10830 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
10831 addresses to fall out of the directory.
10834 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
10835 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
10836 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
10837 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
10839 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
10840 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
10841 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
10842 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
10843 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
10844 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
10845 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
10846 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
10847 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
10848 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
10849 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
10850 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
10851 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
10852 patch by Sebastian.
10853 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
10854 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
10857 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
10858 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
10859 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
10860 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
10861 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
10862 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
10864 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
10865 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
10866 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
10867 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
10868 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
10870 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
10873 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
10874 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
10876 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
10877 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
10878 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10879 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10880 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
10881 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
10883 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
10884 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10885 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
10886 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
10887 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
10888 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10889 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
10890 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
10891 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
10892 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
10893 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
10894 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
10898 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
10899 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
10900 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
10903 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
10904 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
10905 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10907 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
10908 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
10909 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
10910 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
10911 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
10912 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
10913 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
10914 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
10915 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
10916 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
10917 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
10918 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
10919 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
10920 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
10921 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10922 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
10923 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
10924 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
10925 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
10926 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
10927 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
10928 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
10929 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
10930 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
10931 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
10932 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
10934 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
10935 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
10936 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
10937 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
10938 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
10939 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
10940 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
10941 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
10942 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
10943 of 0. Suggested by lark.
10945 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
10946 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
10947 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
10948 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
10949 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
10952 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
10954 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
10955 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
10956 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
10957 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
10960 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
10961 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
10962 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
10963 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10964 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
10966 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
10967 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
10968 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
10969 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
10972 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10973 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10974 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10975 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
10976 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
10977 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
10978 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
10979 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
10982 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
10983 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
10984 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
10985 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
10988 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
10989 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
10990 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
10991 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
10992 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
10993 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
10996 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
10997 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
10998 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
10999 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
11000 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
11001 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11004 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
11005 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
11006 reported by Matt Edman.
11007 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
11009 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
11010 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
11011 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
11012 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
11014 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
11015 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11016 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
11017 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11018 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
11019 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
11020 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
11021 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
11022 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
11023 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
11024 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
11025 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
11026 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
11027 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11028 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
11029 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11030 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
11031 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
11032 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11035 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
11036 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
11037 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
11038 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
11041 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
11042 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
11043 the letter of C99's alias rules.
11046 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
11047 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
11048 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
11049 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
11051 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
11052 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
11053 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
11056 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
11057 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
11060 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
11061 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
11062 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
11063 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
11064 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
11065 reported by "wood".
11066 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
11067 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
11068 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
11069 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
11070 identify a connection.
11071 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
11072 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
11073 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
11074 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
11075 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
11076 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
11077 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11078 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
11079 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
11080 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
11082 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
11083 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
11084 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
11085 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
11086 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
11087 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
11088 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
11091 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
11092 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
11094 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
11095 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
11096 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
11097 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
11098 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
11099 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
11100 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11101 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
11103 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
11104 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
11105 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
11106 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
11107 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
11108 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
11109 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
11110 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
11111 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
11112 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
11113 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
11114 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
11115 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
11116 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
11117 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11118 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
11119 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
11120 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11121 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
11122 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
11123 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
11124 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
11125 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
11126 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
11127 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
11128 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
11129 840. Patch from rovv.
11130 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
11131 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
11132 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
11134 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
11135 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
11136 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
11137 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
11138 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
11139 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
11140 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
11142 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11143 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
11144 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
11147 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
11148 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
11150 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
11151 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
11152 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
11153 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
11154 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
11155 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
11156 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
11157 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
11158 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
11160 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
11162 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
11163 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
11167 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
11168 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
11169 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
11170 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
11171 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
11172 have had some time to upgrade.)
11175 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
11176 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
11179 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
11180 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
11181 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
11182 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
11183 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
11186 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
11187 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
11189 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
11190 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11191 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
11192 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
11193 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
11194 entirely. Patch from coderman.
11197 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
11198 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11199 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
11200 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
11201 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
11202 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11203 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
11207 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
11208 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
11209 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
11210 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
11211 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
11212 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
11213 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
11216 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
11217 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
11218 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
11219 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
11220 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
11222 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
11223 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
11224 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
11225 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
11226 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
11227 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
11228 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11229 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
11230 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
11231 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
11235 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
11236 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
11237 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
11239 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
11240 without support for deprecated functions.
11241 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
11243 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
11244 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
11245 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
11246 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
11247 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
11248 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
11249 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
11250 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
11251 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
11252 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
11253 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
11254 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
11255 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
11256 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
11257 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
11258 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
11259 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
11260 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
11261 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
11262 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
11263 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
11264 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
11265 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
11267 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
11268 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
11269 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
11270 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
11271 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
11272 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
11274 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
11275 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
11276 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
11277 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
11278 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
11280 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
11281 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
11282 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
11284 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
11285 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
11288 o Deprecated and removed features:
11289 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
11290 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
11291 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
11294 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11295 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
11296 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
11297 with log.h on Android.
11298 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
11299 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
11302 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
11303 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
11305 o New directory authorities:
11306 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
11310 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
11311 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
11312 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
11313 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
11314 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
11315 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11318 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
11319 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
11320 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
11321 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
11322 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
11323 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
11324 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
11325 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
11326 reported by "wood".
11327 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
11328 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
11329 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
11330 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
11333 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
11334 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
11336 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
11337 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
11338 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
11339 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
11340 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
11341 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
11342 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
11343 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
11344 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
11345 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
11346 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
11347 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
11348 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
11349 Implements proposal 148.
11350 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
11351 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
11352 system to do it for us.
11353 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
11354 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
11355 this fix will be slightly helpful.
11356 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
11357 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
11358 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
11359 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
11360 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
11361 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
11362 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
11363 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
11364 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
11367 o Minor features (controller):
11368 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
11369 been fetched and validated.
11370 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
11371 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
11372 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
11373 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
11374 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
11375 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
11378 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
11379 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11380 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
11381 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
11382 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
11384 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
11385 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
11386 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11387 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
11388 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
11389 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
11390 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
11391 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
11392 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
11394 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11395 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
11396 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
11397 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
11398 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
11399 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
11400 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
11401 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
11403 o Deprecated and removed features:
11404 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
11406 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
11407 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
11408 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
11410 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11411 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
11412 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
11414 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
11415 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
11416 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
11417 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
11418 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
11419 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
11422 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
11423 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
11424 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
11425 fixes a variety of other issues.
11428 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
11429 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
11430 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
11431 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
11434 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
11435 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
11436 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
11437 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11440 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11441 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11442 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
11446 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
11448 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
11449 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
11450 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11451 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
11452 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
11453 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
11454 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11456 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
11457 rest, and don't automatically fail.
11458 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
11459 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11460 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
11461 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
11463 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
11464 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
11465 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
11466 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
11467 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
11468 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
11469 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
11470 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
11471 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
11472 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
11474 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
11478 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
11479 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
11480 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
11482 o Minor features (controller):
11483 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
11487 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
11488 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11489 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11490 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11491 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11492 variety of other issues.
11495 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11496 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11497 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11498 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11499 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11500 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11501 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
11502 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11503 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11504 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11505 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11506 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11509 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
11510 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11512 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11513 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11514 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11515 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11516 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11517 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11518 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11519 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11520 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11521 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
11522 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
11523 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
11524 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
11525 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
11526 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11530 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
11531 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11532 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11533 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11534 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11535 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11536 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11537 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11538 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11539 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11540 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11541 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11542 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11543 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11544 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
11545 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11546 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11547 list. It has been gone for many months.
11548 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
11549 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
11550 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
11553 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11554 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
11555 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
11558 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
11559 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
11560 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
11561 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
11562 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
11563 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
11564 variety of other issues.
11567 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
11568 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
11569 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
11570 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
11571 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
11572 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
11573 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
11574 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
11575 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
11576 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
11577 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
11578 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
11579 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
11580 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
11583 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
11584 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
11585 Suggested by Lucky Green.
11586 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
11587 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
11588 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
11589 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
11590 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
11591 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
11593 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
11594 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
11596 o Hidden service performance improvements:
11597 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
11598 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
11599 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
11600 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
11601 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
11602 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
11603 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
11604 faster after restart.
11607 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
11608 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
11609 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
11610 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
11611 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
11612 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
11613 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
11614 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
11615 840. Patch from rovv.
11616 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
11617 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
11618 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
11619 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
11620 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
11621 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
11622 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
11623 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
11624 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
11626 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
11627 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
11628 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
11629 have already been marked for close.
11630 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
11631 introduction points.
11632 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
11633 memory performance during directory parsing.
11634 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
11635 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
11636 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
11637 because of a pending download.
11640 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
11641 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
11642 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
11643 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11646 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
11647 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
11648 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
11649 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
11650 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
11651 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
11652 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
11653 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
11654 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
11655 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
11656 lookups more reliable.
11657 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
11658 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
11659 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
11660 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
11661 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
11662 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
11663 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11666 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
11667 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
11668 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11669 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
11670 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
11671 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
11672 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
11673 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
11674 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
11675 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
11676 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
11678 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
11679 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
11680 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
11681 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
11682 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
11683 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11684 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
11685 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
11686 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11689 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
11690 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
11691 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
11692 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
11693 locked down these days.
11694 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
11695 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
11696 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
11697 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
11698 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
11700 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
11701 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
11702 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
11703 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
11704 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
11705 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
11706 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
11707 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
11708 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
11709 people find host:port too confusing.
11710 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
11711 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
11712 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
11715 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11717 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
11718 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
11719 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
11720 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
11721 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
11723 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
11724 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
11725 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
11726 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
11727 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
11728 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
11729 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
11730 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
11731 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
11732 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
11733 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
11734 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
11736 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
11737 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
11738 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
11739 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
11740 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
11741 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
11742 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
11743 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
11744 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
11746 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
11747 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
11748 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
11749 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
11750 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
11751 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11752 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
11753 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
11754 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
11755 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
11756 bug 820, reported by seeess.
11757 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
11758 list. It has been gone for many months.
11760 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11761 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
11762 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
11763 actual mistakes we're making here.
11764 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
11765 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
11766 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
11767 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
11770 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
11771 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
11772 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
11773 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11776 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11777 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11778 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11779 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11780 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11781 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11783 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11784 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11785 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11786 pointed out by rovv.
11789 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11790 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11791 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11792 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11793 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
11794 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
11795 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11796 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11797 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11798 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11799 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11800 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
11801 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
11802 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11803 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11804 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11805 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11806 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11807 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
11808 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
11809 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11812 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
11813 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
11814 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
11815 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
11816 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
11817 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
11818 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
11821 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
11823 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
11824 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
11825 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
11826 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
11827 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
11828 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
11829 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
11831 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
11832 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
11833 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
11834 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
11835 known descriptor before building circuits.
11837 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
11838 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
11839 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
11840 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
11841 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
11842 identify a connection.
11843 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
11844 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
11845 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
11847 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
11848 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
11849 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
11850 pointed out by rovv.
11853 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
11854 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11855 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
11856 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
11857 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
11858 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11859 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
11860 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
11861 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
11862 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
11863 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
11864 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
11865 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
11866 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
11867 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11870 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
11871 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
11872 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
11873 answer sections match.
11874 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
11875 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
11878 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
11879 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11882 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
11883 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
11884 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
11886 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
11887 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
11888 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11891 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
11892 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
11893 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
11894 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
11897 o Removed features:
11898 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
11899 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
11902 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
11903 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
11904 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
11905 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
11906 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
11907 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
11909 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
11910 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
11911 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
11914 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
11915 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
11916 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
11917 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
11918 be sent using an "early" cell.
11921 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
11922 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
11923 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
11924 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
11925 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
11926 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
11927 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
11930 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
11931 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
11932 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
11933 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
11934 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
11935 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
11936 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
11937 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
11938 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
11939 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
11940 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
11941 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
11942 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
11943 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
11944 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
11945 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
11948 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
11949 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
11950 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
11951 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11952 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11953 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11954 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
11955 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
11956 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
11958 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
11959 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
11960 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
11961 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
11962 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
11965 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11966 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
11967 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
11968 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
11970 o Removed features:
11971 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
11972 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
11976 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
11978 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
11979 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
11980 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
11983 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
11984 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
11985 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
11988 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
11989 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
11990 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
11991 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
11992 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11993 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
11994 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
11995 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
11996 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
11997 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
11998 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
11999 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
12000 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12001 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
12002 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
12003 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
12004 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
12005 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
12006 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
12007 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
12008 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
12009 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
12010 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
12013 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
12014 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
12016 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
12017 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
12018 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
12019 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
12020 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
12021 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
12022 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
12024 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
12025 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
12026 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
12027 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
12028 found by Geoff Goodell.
12031 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
12032 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
12033 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
12034 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
12035 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
12036 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
12039 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
12040 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
12041 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
12044 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
12045 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
12046 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
12047 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
12048 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12049 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
12050 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
12051 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
12052 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12053 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
12054 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
12055 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
12056 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
12057 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
12060 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
12061 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
12062 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
12064 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
12065 fingerprints with or without space.
12066 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
12067 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
12068 partway through and wants to catch up.
12069 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
12070 state to start out in.
12073 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
12074 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
12075 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12076 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
12077 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
12080 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
12081 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
12082 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
12083 some of the connection attempts fail.
12084 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
12085 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
12086 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
12087 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
12088 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
12089 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
12091 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
12092 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
12093 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
12096 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
12097 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
12098 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
12099 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
12100 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
12101 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
12102 and adds a variety of smaller features.
12105 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
12106 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
12107 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
12108 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
12110 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
12111 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
12112 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
12113 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
12115 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
12116 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
12117 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
12118 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
12119 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
12120 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
12121 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
12124 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
12125 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
12126 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
12127 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
12128 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
12130 o Memory fixes and improvements:
12131 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
12132 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
12133 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
12134 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
12135 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
12136 on a typical directory cache.
12137 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
12138 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
12139 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
12140 and may reduce fragmentation.
12141 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
12142 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
12143 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
12145 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
12146 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
12147 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
12149 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
12150 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
12154 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
12155 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
12156 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
12157 done that for a long time.
12158 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
12159 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
12160 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
12161 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
12164 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
12165 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
12166 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
12167 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
12168 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
12169 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
12171 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
12172 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
12173 output to messages of warning and error severity.
12174 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
12175 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
12176 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
12177 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
12178 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
12179 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
12180 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
12181 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
12182 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
12183 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
12184 directory requests we should expect to see.
12185 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
12187 - Lots of new unit tests.
12188 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
12189 two parallel lists in lockstep.
12192 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
12193 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
12194 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
12197 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
12198 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
12199 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
12200 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
12201 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
12202 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
12203 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
12206 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
12207 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
12208 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
12212 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
12213 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
12214 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
12217 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
12218 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
12219 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
12221 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
12222 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
12224 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
12225 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
12226 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
12227 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
12228 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12229 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
12230 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
12232 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
12233 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
12234 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
12235 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
12236 - Fix compile on Windows.
12239 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
12240 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
12241 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
12242 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
12243 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
12244 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
12245 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
12248 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
12249 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
12252 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
12253 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
12254 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
12255 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
12257 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
12258 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
12259 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
12262 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
12263 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
12264 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
12265 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
12269 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
12270 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
12271 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
12272 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
12274 o Major security fixes:
12275 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
12276 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
12277 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
12278 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
12279 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
12282 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
12283 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12286 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
12287 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
12290 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
12291 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
12294 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
12295 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
12296 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
12299 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
12300 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12303 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
12304 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
12305 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
12306 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
12307 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
12309 o New directory authorities:
12310 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
12311 it has been down for months.
12312 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
12316 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
12317 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
12319 o Minor features (security):
12320 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
12321 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
12322 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
12325 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
12326 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
12327 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
12328 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
12329 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
12330 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
12331 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
12332 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
12333 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12335 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
12336 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
12337 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12338 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
12339 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12340 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
12341 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12342 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
12343 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
12345 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
12346 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
12347 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
12348 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
12349 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
12350 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
12351 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
12352 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
12353 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
12354 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
12355 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12356 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
12357 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
12358 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
12359 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
12360 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
12361 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
12362 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
12363 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
12366 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
12367 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12368 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
12369 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
12372 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
12373 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
12374 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
12375 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
12378 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
12379 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12380 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
12381 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
12382 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
12385 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
12386 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
12387 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
12388 certain censored countries by default again.
12391 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
12392 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12393 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
12394 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
12395 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12396 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
12397 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
12398 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
12400 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
12401 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
12402 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
12403 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
12404 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
12405 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
12406 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
12407 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
12408 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
12409 a directory. Fix from lodger.
12411 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
12412 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
12413 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
12414 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
12415 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
12416 RelayBandwidth* values.
12417 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
12418 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
12419 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
12420 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
12421 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
12422 get_interface_address6().
12423 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
12424 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
12425 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
12427 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
12428 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
12429 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
12430 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12431 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
12432 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
12433 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12434 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
12435 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
12436 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12439 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
12440 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
12441 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
12444 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
12445 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12446 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
12447 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
12448 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
12451 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
12452 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
12453 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
12454 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
12455 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
12456 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
12457 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
12458 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
12459 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
12462 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
12463 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
12464 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
12465 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
12468 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
12469 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
12470 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
12471 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
12472 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
12473 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
12474 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
12477 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
12478 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
12479 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
12480 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
12481 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
12482 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
12483 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
12485 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
12486 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
12487 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
12488 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
12489 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
12492 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
12493 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
12494 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12495 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
12496 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
12497 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
12498 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12499 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
12500 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
12501 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
12502 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
12503 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
12504 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
12505 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
12506 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
12507 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12508 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
12509 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12510 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12511 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
12512 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
12513 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
12514 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
12515 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
12516 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
12517 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
12519 o Minor features (performance):
12520 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
12522 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
12523 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
12524 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
12525 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
12526 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
12527 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
12528 non-system include paths.
12529 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
12530 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
12533 o Minor features (other):
12534 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
12536 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
12537 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
12538 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
12541 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
12542 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
12543 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
12544 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
12546 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
12547 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
12548 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
12549 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
12550 Should fix bug 537.
12551 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
12552 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
12553 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12554 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
12555 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12557 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12558 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
12559 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
12560 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
12561 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
12562 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
12563 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
12564 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
12565 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
12566 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
12567 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
12568 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
12569 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
12570 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
12571 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
12572 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12573 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
12574 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
12575 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
12576 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
12577 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
12578 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
12579 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
12580 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
12581 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
12584 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12585 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
12586 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
12590 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
12591 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
12592 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
12593 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
12594 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
12597 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
12598 Tor's x509 certificates.
12601 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
12602 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
12603 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12604 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
12605 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
12606 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12608 o Minor features (security):
12609 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
12610 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
12612 o Minor features (directory authority):
12613 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
12614 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
12615 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
12616 bandwidthburst values.
12618 o Minor features (controller):
12619 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
12620 processes from running us out of memory.
12622 o Minor features (misc):
12623 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
12624 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
12625 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
12626 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
12628 o Deprecated features (controller):
12629 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
12630 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
12631 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
12634 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
12635 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
12637 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
12638 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
12639 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12640 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
12641 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
12642 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12643 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
12644 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
12646 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
12647 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12648 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
12649 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12650 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
12651 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
12652 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
12653 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
12655 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
12656 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
12657 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
12658 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
12659 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
12660 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
12661 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12662 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
12663 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12664 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
12665 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
12666 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12668 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12669 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
12671 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
12672 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
12673 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
12674 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
12675 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
12676 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
12679 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
12680 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
12681 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
12682 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
12683 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
12685 o New directory authorities:
12686 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
12690 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
12691 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
12692 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
12693 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
12694 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
12695 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
12696 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
12697 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
12701 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
12702 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
12703 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
12704 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
12705 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
12706 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
12707 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
12708 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
12709 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
12710 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
12713 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
12714 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
12715 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
12716 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
12720 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
12721 the request isn't encrypted.
12722 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
12723 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
12724 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
12725 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
12726 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
12729 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
12730 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
12733 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
12736 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
12737 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
12738 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
12740 o New directory authorities:
12741 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
12744 o Major performance improvements:
12745 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
12746 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
12747 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
12748 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
12749 memory fragmentation.
12752 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
12753 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
12754 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
12755 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12756 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
12757 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
12758 bodies when they receive them.
12759 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
12760 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
12761 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
12763 o Minor performance improvements:
12764 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
12765 of them were actually distinct.
12766 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
12767 interested in a given message.
12770 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
12771 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
12772 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
12773 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
12774 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
12775 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
12776 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
12777 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
12778 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
12779 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
12780 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
12782 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
12783 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
12784 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
12785 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
12786 this country" and "1 person from this country".
12787 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12788 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
12789 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12790 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
12791 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
12793 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12794 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
12795 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
12797 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
12798 but client versions are not.
12799 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12800 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12802 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
12803 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
12804 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
12805 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
12806 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
12808 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
12809 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
12810 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
12813 o Minor features (controller):
12814 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
12815 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
12816 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
12817 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
12819 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12820 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
12821 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
12822 running a test network on a single host.
12823 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
12824 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
12826 o Minor features (bridges):
12827 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
12828 unencrypted connections.
12830 o Minor features (other):
12831 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
12832 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
12833 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
12834 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
12837 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
12838 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
12839 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
12840 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
12843 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
12844 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
12845 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
12846 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
12847 on network address.
12850 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
12851 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
12852 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
12853 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
12854 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12855 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
12856 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12857 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12858 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
12859 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
12860 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
12861 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
12864 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
12865 rebuild our server descriptor.
12866 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
12867 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
12868 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
12869 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
12870 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
12871 nonstandard integer types.
12872 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
12873 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
12874 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
12875 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
12876 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
12878 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
12879 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
12880 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
12881 when they receive them.
12882 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
12883 This includes some 64-bit systems.
12884 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
12885 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
12886 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
12887 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
12888 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
12889 router_get_by_hexdigest().
12890 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
12891 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
12895 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
12896 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
12897 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12900 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
12901 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
12902 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
12903 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
12904 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
12905 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
12906 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
12907 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12910 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
12911 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
12912 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
12913 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
12915 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
12916 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
12919 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
12920 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
12923 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
12925 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
12926 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
12928 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
12929 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
12930 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
12931 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12932 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
12933 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
12934 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
12935 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
12936 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
12937 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
12941 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
12942 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
12943 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
12946 - Make the unit tests build again.
12947 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
12948 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
12949 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
12950 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
12951 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
12952 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
12953 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
12954 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
12955 the next one as a duplicate.
12958 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
12959 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
12960 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
12961 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
12964 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
12965 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
12966 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
12969 o New directory authorities:
12970 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
12974 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
12975 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
12976 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
12977 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
12978 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
12979 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
12980 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
12982 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
12983 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
12985 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
12986 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
12987 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
12988 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
12989 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
12990 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
12992 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
12993 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
12994 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12995 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
12996 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
12997 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13000 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
13001 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
13002 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
13003 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
13004 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
13005 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
13006 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
13007 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
13008 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
13009 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
13010 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
13011 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
13012 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
13013 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
13014 where Tor is blocked.
13015 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
13016 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
13017 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
13018 to a file periodically.
13019 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
13020 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
13021 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
13025 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
13026 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
13027 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
13028 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
13029 in the relevant networkstatus document.
13030 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
13031 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
13032 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13033 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
13034 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
13035 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
13036 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
13037 by Karsten Loesing.
13038 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
13039 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
13040 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
13041 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
13042 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
13043 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13044 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
13045 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
13046 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
13047 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13048 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
13049 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
13050 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
13051 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13052 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
13053 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
13054 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
13055 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
13056 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
13057 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13058 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13059 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
13060 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13061 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
13062 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
13063 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13064 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
13065 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13068 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
13069 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
13070 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
13071 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
13072 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
13073 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
13074 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
13075 even if your DirPort isn't on.
13076 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
13077 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
13078 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
13080 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
13081 multiple controller passwords.
13082 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
13083 router based on the router's purpose.
13084 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
13085 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
13086 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
13087 the approved-routers file.
13090 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
13091 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
13092 well as a few minor bugs.
13095 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
13096 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
13097 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
13099 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13100 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
13101 rebuild our server descriptor.
13103 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13104 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
13105 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
13106 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
13107 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
13108 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
13109 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
13110 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
13111 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
13112 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
13114 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
13115 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
13116 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
13117 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
13118 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
13119 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
13120 then be flexible about families.
13123 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
13124 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
13125 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
13129 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
13130 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
13131 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
13132 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
13133 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
13136 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
13137 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
13138 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
13139 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
13140 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13143 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
13144 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
13146 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
13147 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
13148 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
13149 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
13150 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
13151 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
13152 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13154 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
13155 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
13156 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
13157 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
13160 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
13161 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
13164 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
13165 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
13166 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13169 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
13170 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
13171 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
13172 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
13173 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
13174 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
13175 addresses many more minor issues.
13177 o New directory authorities:
13178 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
13181 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
13182 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
13183 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
13184 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
13186 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
13187 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
13188 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
13189 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
13190 and are reaching it.
13191 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
13192 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
13193 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
13194 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
13195 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
13196 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
13199 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
13200 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
13202 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
13203 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
13204 no longer work for clients.
13205 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
13206 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
13208 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
13209 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
13210 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
13211 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
13212 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
13213 enough directory information to build a circuit.
13214 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
13215 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
13216 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
13217 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
13218 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
13219 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
13221 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
13222 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
13223 requests for all of them.
13224 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
13226 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
13227 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
13228 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
13230 o New requirements:
13231 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
13232 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
13236 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
13237 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
13238 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
13239 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
13240 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
13241 networkstatuses that we already have.
13242 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
13243 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
13244 we start knowing some directory caches.
13245 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
13246 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
13247 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
13248 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
13249 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
13250 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
13251 Good in combination with --hash-password.
13252 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
13253 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
13255 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
13256 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
13257 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
13259 o Minor features (bridges):
13260 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
13261 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
13262 back to trying the bridge directly.
13263 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
13264 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
13266 o Minor features (controller):
13267 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
13268 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
13269 report the value as a "minimum skew."
13272 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
13273 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
13277 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
13278 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
13279 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
13280 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
13281 reported by tup and ioerror.
13282 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
13283 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
13285 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13286 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
13288 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
13289 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
13290 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
13292 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
13293 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13294 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
13295 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13296 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
13297 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13298 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
13300 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
13301 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
13302 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13304 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
13305 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
13306 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
13307 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
13308 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
13311 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
13312 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
13313 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
13314 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
13315 lists for a few hours each day.
13317 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13318 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13319 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13320 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
13321 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
13322 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13323 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13324 rend_process_relay_cell().
13326 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13327 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13328 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13329 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13330 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13331 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13332 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
13333 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
13335 o Major bugfixes (other):
13336 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
13337 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
13338 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
13339 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13340 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13341 circuit cannibalization).
13342 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13343 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13344 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13345 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13346 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13347 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
13350 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13351 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
13353 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13354 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
13355 absent. Resolves bug 467.
13356 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
13357 a way to trigger this remotely.)
13358 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13359 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13360 were reporting the dir port.)
13361 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13362 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
13363 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13364 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13365 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13367 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13368 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13369 the onion key from getting rotated.
13370 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13371 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13372 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13373 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
13374 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13375 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13376 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
13377 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
13378 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
13381 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
13382 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
13383 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
13384 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
13385 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
13386 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
13388 o Major features (directory system):
13389 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
13390 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
13391 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
13392 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
13393 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
13394 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
13395 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
13396 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
13397 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
13398 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
13399 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
13400 Partially implements proposal 122.
13401 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
13402 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
13405 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
13406 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
13407 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
13408 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
13410 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
13411 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
13412 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
13413 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
13414 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
13415 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13416 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
13417 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
13418 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13420 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
13421 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
13423 - Allow certificates to include an address.
13424 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
13425 and download operations.
13426 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
13427 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
13428 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
13429 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
13430 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
13431 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
13433 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
13434 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
13437 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
13438 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
13439 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
13440 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
13442 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
13443 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
13444 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
13446 o Minor features (performance):
13447 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
13448 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
13449 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
13450 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
13451 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
13452 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
13453 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
13456 o Minor features (compilation):
13457 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
13458 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
13460 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13461 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
13462 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
13463 stick around indefinitely.
13464 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
13466 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
13467 v3 directory authority.
13468 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
13469 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
13471 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
13472 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
13473 "moria on moria:9031."
13474 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
13475 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
13476 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
13477 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
13478 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
13479 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
13480 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
13481 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
13483 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
13484 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
13485 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
13486 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
13487 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
13488 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
13489 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
13490 downloads than for other types.
13492 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
13493 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
13495 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
13496 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
13497 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13499 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13500 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
13501 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13502 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
13503 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
13504 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
13505 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
13506 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
13508 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13509 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
13510 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
13511 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
13512 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13513 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
13514 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
13515 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13516 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
13517 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
13518 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
13520 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
13521 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
13524 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13525 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
13526 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
13527 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
13528 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
13529 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
13530 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
13531 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
13532 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
13533 so that they all take the same named flags.
13536 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
13537 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
13538 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
13541 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
13542 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
13543 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
13544 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
13545 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
13546 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
13548 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
13549 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
13550 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
13551 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
13552 annotations along with descriptors.
13553 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
13554 source, and its purpose.
13555 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
13557 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
13558 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
13559 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
13560 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
13563 o Major features (directory authorities):
13564 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
13566 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
13567 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
13568 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
13569 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
13570 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
13571 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
13573 o Major features (v3 directory system):
13574 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
13575 and download the descriptors listed in them.
13576 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
13577 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
13578 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
13580 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13581 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
13582 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
13583 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
13586 o Major bugfixes (performance):
13587 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
13588 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
13589 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
13590 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
13592 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
13593 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
13594 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
13595 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
13596 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
13597 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
13599 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
13600 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
13602 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
13603 certificate is requested.
13604 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
13605 certificate requests.
13607 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
13608 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
13609 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
13610 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
13613 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13614 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
13615 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
13616 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13618 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
13619 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
13621 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
13622 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
13623 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13624 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
13625 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
13626 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
13627 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
13628 downloads more sensible.
13629 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
13630 another when serving certificates.
13632 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13633 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
13634 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
13635 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
13637 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
13638 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13639 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
13641 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
13642 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13644 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13645 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
13646 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
13647 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
13648 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
13650 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
13651 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
13652 WARN-severity events.
13653 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
13654 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
13655 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
13657 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
13658 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
13659 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
13661 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
13662 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
13663 circuit cannibalization).
13665 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13666 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
13667 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
13668 new module, networkstatus.c.
13669 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
13670 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
13671 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
13672 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
13673 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
13674 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
13675 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
13676 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
13677 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
13679 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
13681 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
13682 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13685 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
13686 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
13687 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
13688 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
13690 o New directory authorities:
13691 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
13692 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
13694 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
13695 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
13696 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13698 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
13699 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
13700 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
13701 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
13702 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
13703 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
13704 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
13705 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
13706 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
13707 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
13708 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13710 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13711 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
13712 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
13713 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
13714 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
13715 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
13716 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
13717 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
13718 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
13720 o Minor features (security):
13721 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
13722 address maps to an internal address space.
13723 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
13724 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
13726 o Minor features (guard nodes):
13727 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
13728 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
13729 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
13730 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
13732 o Minor features (speed):
13733 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
13734 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
13735 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
13736 on big-endian hosts.)
13738 o Minor features (controller):
13739 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
13740 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
13741 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
13742 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
13745 o Removed features:
13746 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
13747 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
13748 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
13749 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
13750 implementation of proposal 104.
13751 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
13752 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
13753 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
13754 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
13755 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
13756 patch from Karsten Loesing.
13757 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
13758 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
13761 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
13762 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
13763 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13764 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
13765 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13766 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
13767 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13768 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
13769 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
13770 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13771 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
13772 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
13773 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
13774 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13775 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
13776 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
13777 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
13778 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13779 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
13780 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
13782 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13783 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
13784 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
13786 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
13787 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
13788 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
13789 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
13792 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
13793 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
13794 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
13795 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13796 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
13799 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
13800 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
13803 o Major bugfixes (security):
13804 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
13805 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
13806 become more of a headache than it's worth.
13808 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13809 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13810 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13812 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13813 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13814 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13815 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13816 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13817 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13819 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13820 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13821 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13822 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13823 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
13825 o Minor features (controller):
13826 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13827 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13828 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13829 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13831 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13832 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
13833 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
13834 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
13835 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
13836 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
13837 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
13838 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
13840 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
13841 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
13842 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
13843 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
13844 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
13845 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
13846 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
13847 if we ran off the end of the list.
13848 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13849 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13850 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13851 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13852 every time we change any piece of our config.
13853 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13854 encourage people using them to stop.
13855 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
13857 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13858 servers to choose a circuit.
13859 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13860 unparseable piece of it.
13863 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
13864 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
13865 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
13866 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
13869 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
13870 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
13871 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
13872 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
13873 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
13875 o New directory authorities:
13876 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
13879 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
13880 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
13881 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
13882 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
13884 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
13885 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
13886 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
13888 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
13889 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
13890 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
13891 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
13892 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
13893 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
13895 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
13896 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
13897 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13900 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
13901 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
13902 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
13903 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
13907 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
13908 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
13909 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
13910 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
13912 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
13913 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
13915 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
13916 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
13917 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
13918 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
13919 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
13920 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
13921 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13922 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
13923 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
13924 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
13927 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
13928 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
13929 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
13930 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
13931 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
13932 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
13934 o Removed features:
13935 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
13936 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
13937 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
13938 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
13941 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
13942 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
13943 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
13944 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
13945 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
13948 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
13949 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
13950 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
13951 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
13952 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
13953 reported by lodger.
13955 o Minor features (directory servers):
13956 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
13957 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
13959 o Minor features (directory voting):
13960 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
13963 o Minor features (security):
13964 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
13965 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
13966 encourage people using them to stop.
13968 o Minor features (controller):
13969 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
13970 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
13971 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
13972 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
13973 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
13974 cookie authentication file, and config option
13975 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
13977 o Minor features (unit testing):
13978 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
13979 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
13980 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
13981 logging for the unit tests.
13983 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
13984 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
13985 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
13986 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
13987 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
13988 every time we change any piece of our config.
13989 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
13990 the future. Fixes bug 434.
13991 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
13993 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
13994 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
13995 the onion key from getting rotated.
13996 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
13997 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
13998 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
14001 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
14002 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
14003 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
14005 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
14006 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
14007 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
14008 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
14011 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
14012 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
14013 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
14014 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
14015 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
14016 TorK, etc. Or worse.
14018 o Major security fixes:
14019 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
14020 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
14023 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
14024 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
14025 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
14026 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
14028 o Major security fixes:
14029 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
14030 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
14032 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
14033 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
14036 o Minor features (performance):
14037 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
14038 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
14039 performance-intensive.
14040 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
14041 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
14042 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
14043 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
14044 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
14045 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
14049 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
14050 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
14051 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
14052 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
14056 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
14057 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
14058 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
14059 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
14060 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
14062 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
14063 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
14064 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
14065 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
14067 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
14068 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
14069 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
14070 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
14071 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
14073 o Major features (experimental):
14074 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
14075 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
14076 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
14077 handling before it's ready for use.
14080 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
14081 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
14082 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
14083 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
14084 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
14085 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
14087 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
14088 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
14089 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
14090 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
14091 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
14093 o Major bugfixes (directory):
14094 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
14095 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
14097 o Minor features (controller):
14098 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
14099 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14100 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
14101 from Robert Hogan.)
14102 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
14103 from Robert Hogan.)
14104 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
14105 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
14107 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
14108 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
14109 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
14110 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
14111 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14112 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
14113 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
14116 o Minor features (misc):
14117 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
14119 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
14120 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
14121 the authority identity key.
14122 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
14124 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
14125 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
14126 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
14129 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
14130 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
14131 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
14132 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
14133 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
14134 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
14135 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
14136 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
14138 o Performance improvements:
14139 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
14141 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
14142 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
14145 o Deprecated and removed features:
14146 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
14147 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
14148 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
14149 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
14151 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14152 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
14153 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
14154 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
14155 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
14156 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
14157 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
14158 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
14159 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
14162 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
14163 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
14164 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
14165 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
14166 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
14168 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
14169 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
14172 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14173 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
14174 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
14175 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
14176 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
14177 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
14178 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
14179 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
14180 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
14183 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
14184 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
14185 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
14186 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
14188 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
14189 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
14191 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14192 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
14193 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
14194 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
14195 routerlist while inserting a new router.
14196 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
14197 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
14199 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
14200 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
14201 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
14203 o Major bugfixes (security):
14204 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
14206 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
14207 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
14208 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
14209 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
14210 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
14211 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
14212 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
14213 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
14214 guard list unless we need to.
14216 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
14217 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
14218 don't get overused as guards.
14220 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14221 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
14222 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
14223 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
14224 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
14226 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14227 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
14228 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
14231 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14232 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
14233 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
14234 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
14235 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
14236 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
14237 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
14238 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
14241 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
14242 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
14243 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
14244 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
14246 o Minor features (directory):
14247 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
14248 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
14249 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
14250 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
14252 o Minor build issues:
14253 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
14254 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
14255 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
14256 in the tarball, not as "x".
14259 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
14260 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
14261 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
14262 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
14263 forward on a lot of fronts.
14265 o Major features, server usability:
14266 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
14267 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
14268 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
14269 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
14271 o Major features, client usability:
14272 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
14273 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
14274 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
14275 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
14276 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
14277 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
14278 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
14279 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
14281 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
14282 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
14283 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
14284 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
14285 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
14286 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
14288 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
14289 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
14290 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
14292 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
14293 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
14294 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
14295 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
14296 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
14298 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
14299 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
14300 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
14301 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
14303 o Major features, other:
14304 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
14305 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
14306 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
14307 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
14308 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
14311 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
14312 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
14313 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
14316 o Minor fixes (resource management):
14317 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
14318 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
14319 our allocated connection limit.
14320 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
14321 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
14322 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
14323 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
14324 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
14326 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
14327 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
14328 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
14330 o Minor features (build):
14331 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
14332 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
14333 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
14334 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
14336 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
14337 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
14338 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
14339 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
14340 Use this version consistently in log messages.
14342 o Minor features (logging):
14343 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
14344 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
14345 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
14346 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
14347 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
14350 o Minor features (directory system):
14351 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
14352 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
14353 not to serve V2 directory information.
14354 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
14355 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
14356 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
14358 o Minor features (controller):
14359 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
14360 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
14362 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
14363 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
14364 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
14365 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
14366 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
14367 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
14369 o Minor features (hidden services):
14370 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
14371 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
14372 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
14373 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
14375 o Minor features (other):
14377 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
14378 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
14379 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
14380 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
14381 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
14382 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
14383 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
14384 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
14385 longer a completely silly thing to do.
14386 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
14387 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
14388 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
14389 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
14391 o Removed features:
14392 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
14393 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
14394 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
14395 back an error and close the connection.
14396 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
14397 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
14400 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14401 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
14402 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
14403 makes the log messages nicer.
14404 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
14405 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14406 partial results on small file reads.
14408 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14409 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
14410 more often than they are allowed to appear.
14411 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
14412 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
14414 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14415 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
14416 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
14417 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
14419 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14420 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
14421 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
14422 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
14423 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
14424 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
14425 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
14426 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
14427 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
14428 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
14429 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
14431 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
14432 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
14433 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
14435 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14436 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
14437 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
14438 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
14440 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14441 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
14442 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
14444 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
14445 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
14448 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14449 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
14450 implicit in other procedure arguments.
14451 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
14452 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
14453 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
14454 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
14455 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
14456 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
14457 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
14458 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
14459 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
14462 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
14463 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
14464 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
14465 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
14467 o Directory authority changes:
14468 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
14469 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
14470 or use hidden services.
14472 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14473 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
14474 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
14475 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
14476 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
14477 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
14478 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
14479 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
14480 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
14483 o Major bugfixes (security):
14484 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
14485 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
14486 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
14488 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
14489 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
14490 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
14491 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
14492 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
14493 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
14494 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
14495 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
14496 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
14497 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
14500 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
14501 purpose=controller.
14502 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
14503 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
14505 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
14506 having a hard time downloading.
14507 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
14508 partial results on small file reads.
14509 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
14510 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
14511 the gaps in the store get very large.
14514 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
14515 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
14517 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
14518 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
14521 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
14522 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
14523 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
14524 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
14525 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
14526 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
14528 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
14529 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
14530 free speech on the Internet.
14533 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
14534 get one we don't recognize.
14535 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
14536 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
14539 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
14541 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
14542 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
14543 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
14544 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
14547 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
14548 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
14551 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
14552 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
14553 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
14554 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
14555 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
14556 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
14557 ask for GUARDS too.
14560 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
14561 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14562 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
14563 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
14564 on Win98 and friends again.
14566 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14567 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
14568 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
14571 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
14572 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
14573 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
14574 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
14575 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
14576 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
14577 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
14578 and maybe also bug 397.)
14580 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14581 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
14582 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
14584 o Minor bugfixes (server):
14585 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
14588 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14589 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
14590 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
14591 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
14592 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
14594 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14595 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
14596 load on authorities.
14598 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14599 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
14600 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
14601 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
14603 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
14605 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
14606 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
14607 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
14608 the last of bug 326.)
14609 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
14610 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
14614 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
14615 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
14616 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
14617 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
14618 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
14619 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
14620 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
14622 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
14623 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
14625 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14626 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
14627 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
14629 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
14630 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
14631 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
14633 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14634 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
14635 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
14636 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
14638 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
14639 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
14641 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
14642 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
14643 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
14646 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14647 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
14648 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
14649 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
14650 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
14651 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
14652 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
14653 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
14654 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
14655 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
14656 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
14657 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
14658 other than file-not-found.
14659 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
14660 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
14661 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
14662 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
14663 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
14664 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
14665 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
14666 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
14667 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
14668 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
14669 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
14670 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
14671 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
14672 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
14673 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
14675 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
14677 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
14678 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
14680 o Minor features (controller):
14681 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
14682 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
14683 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
14685 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
14686 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
14687 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
14688 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
14689 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
14690 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
14691 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
14692 connected or resolved cell.
14694 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
14695 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
14696 some profiles, but not others.)
14697 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
14698 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
14699 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
14702 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
14704 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
14705 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
14706 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
14707 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
14708 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
14709 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
14710 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
14711 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
14712 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
14713 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
14714 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
14715 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
14716 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
14717 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
14718 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
14720 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
14723 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
14724 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
14725 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
14726 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
14727 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
14728 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
14729 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
14731 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
14732 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
14733 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
14734 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
14735 buckets go absurdly negative.
14736 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
14737 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
14740 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
14741 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
14742 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
14743 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
14744 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
14745 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
14746 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
14747 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
14750 o Major bugfixes (other):
14751 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
14752 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
14753 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
14754 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
14756 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
14758 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
14759 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
14761 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
14762 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
14763 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
14764 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
14765 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
14766 to wait for 0.2.0.)
14768 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
14769 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
14770 possible memory-stomping bugs.
14771 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
14772 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
14774 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
14775 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
14776 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
14777 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
14778 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
14779 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
14781 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14782 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
14783 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
14784 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
14786 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
14787 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
14788 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
14789 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
14790 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
14791 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
14792 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
14793 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
14794 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
14795 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
14796 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
14797 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
14798 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
14800 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
14801 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
14802 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
14803 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
14804 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
14805 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
14806 to the resulting address.
14809 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
14810 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
14811 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
14812 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
14815 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
14816 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
14818 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
14819 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
14820 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
14821 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
14822 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
14823 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
14824 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
14825 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
14826 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
14827 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
14828 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
14829 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
14830 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
14831 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
14832 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
14833 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
14834 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
14837 o Minor features (controller):
14838 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
14839 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
14840 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
14841 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
14842 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
14843 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
14844 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
14848 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
14850 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
14851 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
14852 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
14853 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
14854 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
14855 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
14858 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
14859 weren't planning to resolve.
14860 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
14861 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
14862 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
14863 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
14864 the controller from learning about current events.
14866 o Minor features (more controller status events):
14867 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
14868 learn when our address changes.
14869 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
14870 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
14871 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
14872 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
14874 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
14875 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
14876 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
14877 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
14878 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
14879 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
14880 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
14881 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
14882 are accepted by a directory.
14883 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
14884 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
14885 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
14886 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
14887 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
14889 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
14890 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
14891 about changes to DNS server status.
14893 o Minor features (directory):
14894 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
14895 too much load to the exit nodes.
14898 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
14900 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
14901 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
14902 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
14903 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
14904 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
14906 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
14907 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
14908 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
14910 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
14911 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
14912 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
14913 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
14914 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
14915 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
14916 config options if you like.
14918 o Minor features (config and docs):
14919 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
14920 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
14921 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
14922 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
14923 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
14925 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
14926 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
14927 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
14928 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
14929 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
14931 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
14932 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
14933 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
14934 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
14935 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
14936 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
14937 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
14938 documentation: "make check-docs".
14939 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
14940 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
14942 o Minor features (DNS):
14943 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
14944 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
14945 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
14946 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
14947 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
14948 our tests for DNS hijacking.
14950 o Minor features (directory):
14951 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
14952 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
14953 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
14954 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
14955 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
14956 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
14957 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
14958 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
14959 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
14960 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
14961 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
14962 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
14963 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
14964 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
14965 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
14966 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
14967 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
14968 for the thing we're trying to download.
14969 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
14970 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
14971 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
14973 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
14974 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
14975 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
14978 o Minor features (controller):
14979 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
14980 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
14982 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
14983 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
14984 entry guard status as it changes.
14986 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
14987 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
14988 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
14989 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
14990 to set log options.
14991 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
14992 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
14993 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
14994 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
14997 o Major bugfixes (security):
14998 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
14999 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
15000 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
15001 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
15003 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
15004 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
15005 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
15006 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
15007 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
15009 o Major bugfixes (other):
15010 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
15011 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
15012 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
15013 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
15015 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
15016 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
15017 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
15018 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
15019 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
15020 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
15024 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
15025 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
15026 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
15027 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
15028 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
15030 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
15031 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
15033 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
15034 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
15035 family lists conveniently.
15036 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
15037 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
15038 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
15040 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
15041 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
15043 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
15044 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
15045 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
15046 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
15047 if their identity keys are as expected.
15048 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
15049 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
15050 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
15052 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15053 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
15054 reported by Mike Perry.
15055 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
15056 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
15057 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
15058 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
15061 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
15062 o Security bugfixes:
15063 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
15064 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
15065 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
15066 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
15070 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
15071 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
15072 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
15075 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
15077 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
15078 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
15079 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
15082 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
15083 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
15084 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
15085 watching for STREAM events.
15086 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
15087 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
15088 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
15089 operations, for profiling.
15092 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
15093 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
15094 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
15095 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
15096 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
15097 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
15099 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
15103 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
15104 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
15105 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
15106 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
15107 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
15109 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
15110 correctly in the Windows installer.
15111 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
15112 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
15113 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
15114 MIPSpro C compiler.
15115 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
15116 when we're running as a client.
15119 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
15121 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
15122 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
15123 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
15124 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
15125 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
15126 its circuits on demand.
15127 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
15128 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
15129 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
15130 connections more stable on average.
15131 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
15132 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
15133 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
15135 o Security bugfixes:
15136 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
15137 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
15140 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
15142 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
15143 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
15144 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
15145 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
15146 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
15147 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
15148 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
15149 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
15152 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
15154 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
15155 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
15156 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
15157 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
15158 routers for even longer.
15159 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
15160 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
15161 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
15162 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
15163 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
15164 caching HTTP proxies.
15165 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
15168 o Minor features, controller:
15169 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
15170 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
15171 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
15172 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
15174 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
15175 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
15176 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
15177 working much like those for circuit events.
15178 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
15179 about the current status of a router.
15180 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
15181 a router's status has changed.
15182 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
15183 can tell which events and features are supported.
15184 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
15185 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
15187 o Security bugfixes:
15188 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
15189 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
15192 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
15193 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
15194 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
15195 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
15196 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
15197 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
15198 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
15199 long nicknames where appropriate.
15200 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
15201 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
15202 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
15203 chews through many circuits before giving up.
15204 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
15205 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
15206 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
15207 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
15208 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
15209 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
15211 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
15212 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
15213 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
15215 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
15216 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
15217 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
15218 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
15219 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
15220 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
15221 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
15222 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
15223 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
15224 (reported by fookoowa).
15225 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
15226 and reported by some Centos users.
15227 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
15228 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
15229 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
15230 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
15231 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
15232 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
15233 before we check for libevent.
15236 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
15238 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
15239 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
15240 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
15241 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
15242 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
15243 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
15244 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
15245 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
15246 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
15247 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
15248 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
15249 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
15250 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
15251 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
15252 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
15253 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
15254 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
15255 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
15256 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
15257 lets you turn it off.
15258 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
15259 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
15260 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
15261 us into the directory more quickly.
15263 o New/improved config options:
15264 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
15265 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
15266 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
15267 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
15268 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
15269 all the machines on the same subnet.
15270 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
15271 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
15272 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
15273 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
15274 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
15275 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
15276 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
15277 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
15278 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
15279 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
15281 o Minor features, controller:
15282 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
15283 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
15284 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
15285 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
15286 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
15287 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
15288 for more information.
15289 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
15290 best guess to the user.
15291 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
15292 descriptor has changed.
15293 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
15295 o Minor features, other:
15296 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
15297 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
15298 useful to the network.
15299 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
15300 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
15301 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
15302 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
15303 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
15304 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
15305 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
15306 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
15307 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
15308 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
15309 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
15310 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
15311 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
15312 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
15313 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
15315 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
15316 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
15317 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
15318 could return an unnamed server instead.
15319 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
15320 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
15321 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
15322 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
15323 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
15324 a more attractive target for compromise.)
15325 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
15326 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
15327 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
15329 o Major bugfixes, other:
15330 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
15331 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
15332 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
15333 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
15334 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15335 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15336 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
15337 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
15338 its circuits on demand.
15339 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
15340 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
15341 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
15342 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
15344 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
15345 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15346 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15347 we don't recognize.
15348 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
15350 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
15351 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
15352 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
15353 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
15354 "extendcircuit" request.
15355 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15356 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15357 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
15359 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
15360 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
15361 instead of "X resolved to X".
15362 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
15363 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
15364 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
15365 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
15366 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
15367 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
15368 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
15369 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
15370 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
15372 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
15373 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
15374 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
15375 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
15376 result more than once.
15377 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
15378 non-versioning dirservers.
15379 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
15380 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
15382 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
15383 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
15384 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
15385 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
15386 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
15387 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
15388 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
15389 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
15390 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
15392 o Packaging, features:
15393 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
15394 now universal binaries.
15395 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
15396 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
15397 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
15399 o Packaging, bugfixes:
15400 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
15401 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
15402 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
15403 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
15405 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
15406 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
15407 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
15410 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
15411 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
15412 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
15416 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
15418 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
15419 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
15420 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
15421 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
15422 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
15423 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
15424 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
15425 it can't resolve its hostname.
15428 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15429 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
15430 "extendcircuit" request.
15431 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
15432 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
15433 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15434 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15436 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
15437 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
15438 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
15440 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
15441 methods: these are known to be buggy.
15442 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
15443 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
15444 we don't recognize.
15447 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
15449 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
15450 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
15451 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
15452 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
15453 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
15454 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
15455 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
15456 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
15457 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
15458 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
15459 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
15460 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
15461 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
15462 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
15463 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
15464 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
15465 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
15466 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
15467 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
15468 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
15469 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
15470 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
15471 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
15472 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
15475 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
15476 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
15477 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
15478 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
15479 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
15480 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
15481 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
15482 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
15483 recommendation system saner.)
15484 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
15486 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
15487 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
15488 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
15489 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
15490 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
15491 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
15492 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
15493 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
15494 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
15495 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
15496 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
15497 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
15498 your ORPort is set.
15499 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
15500 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
15501 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
15502 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
15503 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
15504 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
15505 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
15506 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
15507 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
15508 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
15509 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
15510 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
15512 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
15513 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
15514 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
15515 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
15516 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
15517 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
15520 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
15521 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
15522 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
15523 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
15524 our DirPort now, etc.
15525 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
15526 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
15527 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
15528 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
15529 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
15530 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
15531 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
15533 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
15534 whether the config options are bad or good.
15535 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
15536 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
15537 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
15538 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
15539 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
15540 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
15541 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
15542 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
15545 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
15546 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
15547 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
15548 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
15549 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
15550 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
15551 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
15552 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
15553 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
15554 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
15555 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
15556 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
15557 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
15558 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
15559 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
15560 of it), is not therefore "up".
15561 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
15562 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
15563 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
15564 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
15565 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
15566 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
15569 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
15571 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
15572 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
15573 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
15574 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
15575 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
15576 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
15577 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
15578 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
15579 test reachability, so you won't publish.
15582 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
15583 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
15584 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
15585 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
15586 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
15588 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
15589 own server descriptor yet.
15592 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
15594 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
15595 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
15596 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
15597 make sure to test via one of these.
15598 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
15599 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
15600 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
15601 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
15602 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
15604 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
15605 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
15606 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
15609 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
15610 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
15611 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
15612 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
15613 directory authority.
15614 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
15615 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
15616 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
15617 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
15620 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
15621 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
15622 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
15624 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
15625 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
15626 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
15627 current guards when picking a new guard.
15628 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
15629 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
15630 when we had more than one pending.
15631 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
15632 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
15633 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
15634 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
15635 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
15636 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
15637 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
15638 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
15639 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
15640 debug the reachability problems better.
15642 o Log / documentation fixes:
15643 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
15644 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
15645 about protocol violations by others.
15646 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
15647 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
15648 about what happened to our old torrc.
15651 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
15653 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
15655 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
15656 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
15657 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
15658 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
15661 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
15663 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
15664 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
15665 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
15666 old ORPort and receive connections.
15667 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
15669 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
15670 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
15671 and network-statuses.
15672 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
15673 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
15674 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
15675 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
15677 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
15680 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
15681 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
15682 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
15685 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
15687 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
15688 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
15689 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
15690 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
15691 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
15694 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
15695 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
15697 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
15698 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
15699 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
15700 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
15701 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
15702 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
15703 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
15704 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
15705 rather than not sending anything back at all.
15706 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
15707 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
15708 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
15709 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
15710 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
15711 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
15712 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
15713 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
15714 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
15715 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
15716 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
15717 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
15718 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
15719 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
15720 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
15721 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
15722 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
15723 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
15724 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
15725 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
15726 default ulimit -n is 1024.
15729 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
15730 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
15731 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
15732 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
15735 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
15737 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
15738 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
15739 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
15740 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
15741 entry guards running these flawed versions.
15742 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
15743 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
15744 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
15745 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
15746 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
15749 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
15750 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
15752 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
15753 and it is confusing some users.
15754 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
15755 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
15756 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
15757 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
15758 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
15761 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
15763 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
15764 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
15765 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
15766 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
15767 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
15768 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
15769 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
15770 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
15771 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
15772 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
15773 dirport is set for now.
15775 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
15776 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
15777 unattached before we fail it?
15778 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
15779 at least this many seconds ago.
15780 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
15781 at least this many seconds ago.
15784 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
15785 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
15786 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
15787 or resolve-wait stream.
15788 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
15789 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
15790 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
15791 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
15792 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
15793 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
15794 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
15795 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
15797 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
15798 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
15799 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
15800 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
15801 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
15802 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
15803 given as hex digests.
15804 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
15805 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
15806 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
15807 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
15808 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
15809 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
15810 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
15811 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
15814 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15815 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
15816 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
15817 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
15818 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
15819 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
15820 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
15821 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
15822 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
15823 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
15824 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
15827 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
15828 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
15829 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
15830 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
15831 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
15832 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
15833 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
15836 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
15837 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
15838 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
15839 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
15840 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
15841 misreading their logs.
15842 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
15843 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
15844 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
15845 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
15846 valid router descriptors.
15847 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
15848 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
15849 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
15850 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
15851 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
15852 silently resetting it to its default.
15853 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
15855 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
15858 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
15859 use clean circuits.
15860 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
15861 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
15862 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
15863 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
15864 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
15866 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
15867 because older Tors do not understand it.
15868 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
15872 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
15873 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
15874 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
15875 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
15876 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
15877 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
15878 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
15879 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
15880 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
15881 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
15882 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
15884 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
15885 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
15886 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
15887 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
15889 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
15890 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
15893 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
15894 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
15895 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15896 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15897 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15898 without getting overloaded.
15899 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
15901 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
15902 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
15903 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
15904 be forward-compatible.
15905 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
15906 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
15907 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
15908 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
15910 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
15911 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
15912 and OR conns to port 443.
15913 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
15914 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
15916 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
15917 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
15918 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
15919 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
15920 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
15921 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
15922 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
15925 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
15926 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
15927 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
15928 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
15930 o Other important bugfixes:
15931 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15932 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15933 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15934 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15936 o Backported features:
15937 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
15938 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
15939 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
15940 without getting overloaded.
15941 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
15942 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
15943 503's whenever they feel busy.
15944 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
15945 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
15946 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
15947 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
15948 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
15951 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
15952 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
15953 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
15954 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
15955 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
15956 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
15957 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
15958 know if the crashes continue.
15959 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
15960 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
15961 seg faults in at least some cases.)
15962 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
15963 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
15964 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
15967 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
15968 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
15969 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
15970 try to be a bit more fair.
15971 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
15972 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
15973 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
15974 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
15975 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
15976 bug that let it go negative.
15977 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
15978 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
15979 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
15980 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
15981 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
15982 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
15983 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
15984 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
15985 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
15986 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
15987 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
15990 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
15992 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
15993 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
15994 service descriptors.
15997 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
15998 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
15999 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
16000 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
16002 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
16003 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
16004 versions *are* still recommended.
16005 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
16006 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
16007 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
16008 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
16009 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
16010 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
16011 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
16012 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
16014 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
16015 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
16016 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
16017 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
16018 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
16019 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
16020 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
16021 on it. Not used by clients yet.
16022 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
16023 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
16024 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
16025 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
16026 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
16027 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
16028 established a circuit.
16029 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
16030 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
16031 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
16032 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
16035 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
16036 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16037 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
16038 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
16039 quickly enough. Oops.
16040 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
16042 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16043 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
16046 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
16047 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
16048 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
16049 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
16050 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
16051 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
16052 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
16053 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
16054 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
16055 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
16056 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
16057 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
16058 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
16059 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
16060 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
16061 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
16062 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
16065 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
16066 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
16067 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
16068 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
16069 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
16070 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
16071 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
16072 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
16073 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
16074 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
16075 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
16076 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
16077 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
16078 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
16079 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
16080 connections more reliable.
16083 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
16084 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
16085 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
16086 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
16087 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
16088 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
16089 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
16090 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
16091 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
16092 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
16093 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
16094 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
16095 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
16096 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
16100 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
16101 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
16102 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
16103 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
16104 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
16105 need to be uint64_t's.
16106 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
16107 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
16108 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
16110 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
16112 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
16113 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
16114 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
16115 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
16116 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
16117 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
16118 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
16120 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
16121 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
16122 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
16123 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
16124 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
16125 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
16126 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
16127 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
16128 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
16129 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
16130 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
16131 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
16132 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
16135 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
16136 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
16137 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
16138 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
16139 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
16140 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
16141 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
16143 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
16144 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
16145 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
16146 can answer v2 directory requests too.
16147 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
16148 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
16149 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
16150 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
16152 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
16153 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
16154 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
16155 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
16156 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
16157 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
16158 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
16159 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
16160 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
16161 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
16162 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
16163 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
16164 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
16165 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
16166 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
16168 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
16169 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
16172 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
16173 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16174 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
16175 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
16176 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
16177 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
16178 too -- so detect and avoid this.
16179 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
16181 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
16182 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
16183 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
16184 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
16185 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
16186 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
16187 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
16188 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
16189 rendezvous circuits.
16190 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
16192 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16193 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
16194 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
16195 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
16196 advertising it because of hibernation.
16197 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
16198 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
16199 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
16200 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
16201 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
16202 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
16203 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
16204 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
16205 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
16206 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
16207 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
16208 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
16209 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
16210 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
16213 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
16214 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16215 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
16216 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
16217 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
16218 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
16219 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
16220 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
16221 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
16222 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
16223 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
16224 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
16225 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
16226 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
16227 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
16228 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
16229 connections once a week.
16230 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
16231 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
16232 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
16233 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
16234 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
16235 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
16237 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
16238 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
16239 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
16241 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16242 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
16243 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
16244 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
16245 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
16246 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
16247 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
16248 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
16249 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
16250 firewall options forbid.
16251 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
16252 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
16253 can only proxy to certain destinations.
16254 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
16255 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
16256 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
16257 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
16258 aids some statistical attacks.
16259 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
16260 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
16261 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
16262 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
16264 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16265 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
16266 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
16267 server descriptor sometimes.
16268 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
16269 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
16270 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
16271 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
16272 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
16273 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
16274 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
16275 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
16277 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
16278 case the controller wants to change that too.
16279 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
16280 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
16281 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
16282 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
16284 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
16285 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
16286 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
16288 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
16289 descriptors that they know they will reject.
16291 o Features and updates:
16292 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
16293 significantly faster.
16294 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
16295 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
16296 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
16297 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
16298 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
16299 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
16300 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
16301 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
16302 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
16303 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
16304 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
16305 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
16306 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
16307 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
16308 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
16309 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
16310 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
16311 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
16312 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
16313 as authoritative dirserver.
16314 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
16315 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
16316 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
16319 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
16320 o Usability improvements:
16321 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
16322 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
16324 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
16325 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
16326 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
16328 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
16329 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
16330 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
16331 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
16332 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
16333 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
16334 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
16335 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
16336 memory leaks better.
16337 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
16338 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
16339 their operators to pay close attention.
16340 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
16341 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
16343 o Performance improvements:
16344 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
16345 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
16346 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
16347 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
16348 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
16349 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
16350 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
16351 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
16352 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
16353 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
16354 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
16355 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
16356 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
16357 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
16358 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
16359 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
16360 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
16362 o Security improvements:
16363 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
16364 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
16365 fingerprint of server.
16366 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
16367 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
16368 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
16370 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16371 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
16372 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
16373 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
16374 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
16375 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
16376 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
16377 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
16378 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
16379 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
16380 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
16381 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
16382 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
16383 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
16384 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
16385 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
16386 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
16387 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
16388 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
16389 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
16390 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
16392 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
16393 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
16394 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
16396 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
16397 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
16399 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
16400 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
16401 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
16402 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
16403 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
16404 of the controller protocol.
16405 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
16406 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
16407 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
16410 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
16411 o New features (major):
16412 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
16413 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
16414 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
16415 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
16416 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
16417 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
16418 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
16419 we're using a default DirPort.
16420 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
16422 o New features (minor):
16423 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
16424 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
16425 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
16426 mirrors still cache and serve it).
16427 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
16428 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
16429 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
16430 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
16431 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
16432 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
16433 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
16434 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
16435 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
16436 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
16437 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
16438 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
16439 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
16440 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
16441 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
16443 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
16444 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
16445 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
16446 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
16447 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
16448 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
16449 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
16450 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
16452 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
16453 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
16454 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
16455 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
16456 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
16457 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
16458 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
16459 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
16460 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
16461 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
16463 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
16464 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16465 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16466 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16467 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16469 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16470 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
16471 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
16473 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
16474 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
16476 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
16477 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
16478 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
16479 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
16480 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
16481 don't warn twice about the same name.
16482 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
16483 if we've not heard of the server.
16484 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
16485 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
16488 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
16489 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16490 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
16491 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
16492 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
16493 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16494 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16495 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
16496 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
16497 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
16498 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
16499 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
16500 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
16501 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
16502 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
16505 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
16506 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
16507 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
16508 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
16509 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
16511 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
16512 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
16513 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
16514 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
16515 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
16516 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
16520 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
16521 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
16522 nickname) is reachable by you.
16523 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
16526 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16527 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
16528 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
16529 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
16530 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
16531 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
16532 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
16533 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
16534 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
16535 we fail to connect).
16536 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
16537 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
16538 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
16539 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
16541 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
16542 it was self-testing that told us so.
16545 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
16546 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
16547 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16548 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
16549 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
16550 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
16551 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
16552 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
16553 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
16554 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
16555 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
16556 exit policy using him for any exits.
16557 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
16560 o New controller features/fixes:
16561 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
16562 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
16563 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
16564 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
16565 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
16566 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
16567 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
16568 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
16569 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
16571 o Start on the new directory design:
16572 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
16573 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
16575 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
16576 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
16577 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
16578 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
16580 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
16581 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
16582 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
16583 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
16584 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
16585 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
16586 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
16587 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
16590 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
16591 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
16592 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
16593 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
16594 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
16595 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
16596 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
16597 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
16598 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
16599 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
16601 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
16602 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
16603 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
16604 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
16605 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
16606 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
16607 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
16608 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
16609 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
16611 o Config option changes:
16612 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
16613 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
16614 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
16615 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
16616 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
16617 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
16619 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
16620 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
16621 people have started using them for spam too.
16622 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
16623 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
16624 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
16625 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
16626 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
16627 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
16628 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
16629 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
16630 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
16631 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
16632 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
16633 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
16634 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
16635 services faster on the service end.
16636 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
16637 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
16638 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
16639 it a fair shake next time we try.
16640 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
16641 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
16642 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
16643 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
16644 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
16645 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
16646 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
16647 able to discover them.
16648 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
16649 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
16650 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
16651 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
16652 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
16653 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
16654 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
16655 testing for reachability.
16656 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
16657 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
16659 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
16661 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
16662 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
16665 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
16666 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
16668 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16669 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
16670 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
16671 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
16674 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
16675 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16676 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
16678 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
16679 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
16682 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
16683 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
16686 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
16687 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
16688 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
16689 options, getinfo keys.
16692 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
16693 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16694 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
16695 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16696 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16697 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
16698 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
16700 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
16701 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
16705 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
16706 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16707 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
16709 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
16711 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
16712 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
16713 circuit events and we go offline.
16714 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
16715 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
16716 you don't have enough intro points already.
16718 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
16719 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
16720 many bytes we've used in this time period.
16721 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
16722 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
16723 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
16724 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
16725 enabled by default yet.
16727 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
16728 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
16729 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
16730 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
16731 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
16734 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
16735 o New directory servers:
16736 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16738 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16739 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16740 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16741 pthreads libraries.
16742 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
16743 claims its dirport is 0.
16744 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
16745 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
16749 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
16750 o New directory servers:
16751 - tor26 has changed IP address.
16753 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
16754 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
16756 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
16757 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
16758 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
16759 ports that have changed.
16760 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
16762 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
16763 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
16764 Windows-style errno back.
16765 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
16767 want to make it an NT service.
16768 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
16769 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
16770 name, give the full name in our response.
16771 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
16772 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
16773 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
16774 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
16775 pthreads libraries.
16777 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
16778 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
16782 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
16783 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
16784 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
16785 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
16786 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
16789 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
16790 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
16791 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
16792 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
16793 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16794 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16795 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16796 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
16799 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
16801 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
16802 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
16803 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
16804 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
16805 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
16806 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
16808 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
16809 temporarily unreachable.
16810 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
16814 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
16815 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
16816 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
16817 our protocol works.
16818 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
16822 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
16823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
16824 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
16825 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
16826 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
16830 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
16831 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
16832 libevent before 1.1a.
16835 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
16837 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
16838 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
16839 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
16840 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
16841 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
16843 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
16844 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
16845 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
16846 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
16847 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
16848 of CPU time plus memory.
16849 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
16850 normal web requests.
16851 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
16852 tor_lookup_hostname().
16853 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
16854 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
16855 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
16856 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
16857 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
16858 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
16860 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
16861 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
16862 HttpProxyAuthenticator
16863 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
16864 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
16865 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
16867 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
16868 the user asks you to.
16869 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
16870 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
16871 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
16872 their descriptors are being rejected.
16873 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
16877 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
16879 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
16880 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
16881 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
16883 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
16885 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
16887 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
16888 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
16889 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
16890 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
16891 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
16892 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
16893 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
16894 keys) from the exit server's process.
16895 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
16896 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
16897 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
16898 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
16899 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
16900 point at your Tor server.
16901 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
16902 you're not sending a socks reply back.
16905 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
16906 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
16907 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
16908 to make it easier to write controllers.
16911 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
16913 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
16914 installing on Tiger.
16915 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
16916 complain during installation.
16917 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
16918 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
16919 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
16920 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
16921 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
16922 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
16924 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
16925 something more reasonable when first installing.
16926 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
16929 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
16931 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
16932 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
16934 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
16935 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
16936 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
16937 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
16938 when using the default exit policy.
16939 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
16940 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
16941 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
16942 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
16943 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
16944 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
16945 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
16946 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
16947 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
16948 we fetched a new directory.
16949 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
16950 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
16953 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
16954 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
16955 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
16956 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
16957 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
16958 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
16959 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
16960 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
16962 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
16963 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
16964 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
16965 save memory on systems that need to fork.
16966 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
16967 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
16968 is valid without actually launching Tor.
16969 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
16970 rather than just rejecting it.
16973 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
16975 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
16976 we didn't like its cert.
16978 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
16979 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
16980 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
16981 on patch from Adam Langley.
16982 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
16983 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
16984 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
16985 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
16987 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
16988 directory every time you regenerate it.
16989 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
16990 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
16993 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
16994 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
16995 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
16996 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
16997 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
17000 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
17002 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
17003 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
17004 TLS errors better in other situations too.
17005 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
17006 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
17007 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
17008 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
17009 and don't log when you are.
17010 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
17011 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
17013 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
17014 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
17015 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
17016 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
17017 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
17020 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
17021 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
17022 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
17023 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
17024 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
17025 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
17026 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
17027 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
17028 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
17029 nickname+key are allowed.
17030 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
17031 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
17032 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
17033 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
17034 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
17035 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
17036 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
17037 have quite wrong clocks).
17038 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
17039 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
17040 - Efficiency improvements:
17041 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
17042 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
17043 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
17044 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
17045 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
17046 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
17047 lowercase and be done with it.
17048 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
17049 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
17050 to abandon partially built circuits.
17051 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
17052 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
17054 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
17056 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
17057 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
17058 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
17059 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
17061 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
17062 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
17064 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
17065 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
17066 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
17067 obeying the exit policy internally.
17068 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
17069 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
17071 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
17072 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
17073 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
17074 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
17076 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
17077 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
17078 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
17079 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
17080 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
17082 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
17083 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
17084 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
17085 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
17086 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
17087 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
17088 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
17089 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
17090 descriptors we just dropped.
17091 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
17092 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
17093 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
17094 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
17095 artificially capped at 500kB.
17098 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
17099 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17100 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
17101 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
17102 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
17103 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
17104 busy for more than 100 seconds.
17107 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
17108 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
17109 - Fixes on reachability detection:
17110 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
17111 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
17112 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
17113 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
17114 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
17115 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
17116 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
17117 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
17118 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
17119 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
17120 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
17121 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
17122 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
17123 server not already connected to them.
17124 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
17125 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
17126 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
17128 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
17130 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
17131 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
17132 are in a different state than they actually are.
17133 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
17134 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
17135 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
17137 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
17138 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
17139 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
17141 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
17142 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
17143 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
17144 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
17145 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
17146 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
17147 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
17149 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
17150 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
17151 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
17152 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
17155 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
17156 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17157 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
17158 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
17159 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
17160 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
17161 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
17162 creating actual system users.
17163 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
17164 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
17168 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
17170 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
17171 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
17172 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
17173 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
17174 hidden services better.
17175 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
17177 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
17178 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
17179 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
17180 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
17181 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
17182 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
17183 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
17184 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
17185 patch by Matt Edman).
17186 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
17187 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
17188 required exit node for certain sites.
17189 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
17190 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
17191 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
17192 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
17193 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
17194 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
17195 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
17196 rather than just "success" or "failure".
17197 - A more sane version numbering system. See
17198 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
17199 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
17200 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
17202 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
17203 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
17204 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
17205 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
17206 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
17207 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
17208 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
17210 o Robustness/stability fixes:
17211 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
17212 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
17213 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
17215 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
17216 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
17217 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
17219 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
17220 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
17221 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
17223 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
17224 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
17225 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
17226 that will want high uptime circuits.
17227 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
17228 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
17229 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
17230 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
17231 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
17232 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
17233 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
17234 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
17235 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
17236 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
17237 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
17238 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
17239 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
17240 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
17241 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
17242 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
17243 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
17244 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
17245 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
17246 when we try to launch one.
17247 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
17248 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
17249 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
17250 "ShutdownWaitLength".
17251 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
17252 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
17253 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
17254 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
17255 and to take errno into account where possible.
17258 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
17259 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
17260 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
17261 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
17262 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
17263 file more reasonable.
17264 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
17265 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
17266 addresses -- it won't.
17267 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
17268 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
17269 for google.com" problem.
17270 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
17271 so it's not just "unknown platform".
17272 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
17273 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
17274 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
17275 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
17277 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
17278 they could use instead.
17279 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
17280 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
17281 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
17282 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
17283 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
17284 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
17285 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
17286 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
17287 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
17289 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
17293 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
17294 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
17296 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
17297 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
17298 private-IP addresses.
17299 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
17300 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
17302 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
17303 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
17304 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
17305 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
17306 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
17307 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
17308 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
17310 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
17311 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
17312 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
17313 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
17314 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
17315 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
17316 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
17317 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
17319 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
17321 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
17322 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
17323 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
17324 whether the server is hibernating.
17327 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
17328 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
17329 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
17330 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
17331 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
17332 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
17333 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
17334 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
17335 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
17336 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
17337 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
17338 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
17339 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
17340 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
17341 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
17343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
17344 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
17345 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
17346 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
17347 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
17348 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
17349 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
17350 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
17351 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
17352 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
17353 existing torrc files.
17354 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
17357 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
17358 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
17359 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
17360 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
17361 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
17362 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
17363 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
17364 the win32 SYSTEM account.
17365 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
17366 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
17367 file descriptors available.
17368 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
17369 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
17370 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
17373 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
17374 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17375 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
17376 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
17378 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
17379 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
17380 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
17381 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
17382 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
17384 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
17385 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
17386 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
17387 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
17388 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
17389 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
17390 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
17391 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
17392 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
17393 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
17394 800kB/s of capacity.
17395 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
17398 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
17399 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17400 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
17401 need as much processor time.
17402 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
17403 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
17404 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
17405 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
17406 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
17407 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
17408 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
17409 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
17410 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
17411 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
17412 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
17413 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
17415 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
17416 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
17417 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
17418 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
17419 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
17420 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
17421 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
17424 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
17425 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
17426 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
17428 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
17429 style address, then we'd crash.
17430 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
17431 a dirserver is broken.
17432 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
17434 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
17435 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
17436 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
17438 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
17439 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
17440 name out of the warning/assert messages.
17441 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
17442 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
17443 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
17445 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
17446 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
17447 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
17449 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
17451 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
17452 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
17453 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
17454 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
17455 values at once couldn't work.
17456 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
17457 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
17458 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
17459 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
17460 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
17461 they can handle any number of routers.
17462 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
17463 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
17464 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
17465 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
17466 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
17467 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
17468 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
17469 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
17470 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
17473 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
17474 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
17475 - Make hibernation actually work.
17476 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
17477 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
17478 don't use the stream status code.
17481 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
17483 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
17484 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
17486 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
17489 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
17490 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
17491 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
17492 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
17493 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
17494 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
17495 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
17496 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
17497 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
17498 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
17500 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17501 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
17502 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
17503 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
17504 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
17505 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
17506 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
17507 - Make unit tests work on win32.
17510 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
17511 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17512 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
17514 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
17515 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
17516 than just chopping them off.
17517 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
17519 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17520 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
17521 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
17522 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
17523 right after sending the begin cell.
17524 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
17525 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
17526 exit nodes too. Oops.
17529 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
17530 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
17531 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
17532 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
17533 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
17534 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
17535 the user knows which one it's talking about.
17536 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
17537 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
17538 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
17541 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
17542 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17543 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
17544 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
17546 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
17548 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
17549 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
17550 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
17552 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
17553 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
17554 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
17555 Clip rather than rejecting.
17556 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
17557 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
17560 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
17561 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
17562 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
17563 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
17565 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
17568 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
17569 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17570 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
17571 win32 socket errors better.
17573 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17574 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
17577 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
17578 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17579 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
17580 so we don't see those messages days later.
17582 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17583 - Make tor-resolve work again.
17584 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
17585 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
17588 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
17589 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
17590 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
17591 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
17593 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
17594 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
17595 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
17598 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
17599 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17600 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
17601 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
17602 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
17603 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
17604 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
17605 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
17606 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
17608 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
17609 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
17610 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
17611 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
17613 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
17614 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
17617 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
17618 hibernation properties by
17619 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
17620 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
17621 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
17622 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
17623 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
17624 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
17625 get back to normal.)
17626 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
17628 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
17629 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
17630 to fill the last cell completely.
17631 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
17634 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
17635 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17636 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
17637 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
17638 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
17639 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
17640 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
17641 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
17642 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
17643 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
17644 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
17646 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
17647 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
17648 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
17649 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
17650 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
17651 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
17652 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
17653 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
17655 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
17656 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
17657 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
17658 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
17659 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
17660 have it on start-up.
17663 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
17664 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
17665 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
17666 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
17667 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
17668 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
17669 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
17670 configuration to torrc.
17671 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
17672 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
17673 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
17674 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
17675 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
17677 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
17678 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
17679 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
17680 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
17681 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
17682 log more informatively.
17683 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
17684 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
17685 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
17686 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
17687 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
17688 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
17689 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
17690 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
17691 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
17692 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
17693 from each other, to hinder linkability.
17696 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
17697 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
17698 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
17699 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
17700 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
17701 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
17702 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
17704 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
17705 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
17706 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
17707 they ran out of file descriptors.
17708 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
17709 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
17710 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
17711 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
17712 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
17713 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
17714 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
17716 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
17719 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
17720 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
17721 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
17722 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
17723 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
17724 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
17725 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
17726 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
17727 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
17728 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
17729 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
17730 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
17731 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
17732 with the control port.
17733 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
17734 use in authenticating to the control interface.
17735 - New log format in config:
17736 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
17737 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
17740 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
17741 from their dirserver.
17742 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
17744 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
17745 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
17746 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
17747 them act more like real nodes.
17748 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
17749 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
17751 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
17752 nickname to its identity key.
17753 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
17754 not on the command line.
17755 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
17756 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
17757 1024) file descriptors.
17759 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
17760 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
17762 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
17763 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
17764 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
17767 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
17768 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
17769 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
17770 exit policy, not reject *:*.
17771 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
17772 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
17773 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
17774 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
17775 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
17776 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
17777 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
17780 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
17781 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
17782 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
17783 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
17784 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
17785 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
17786 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
17789 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
17790 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
17791 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
17792 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
17793 the ones we find in directories.)
17794 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
17796 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
17797 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
17799 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
17800 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
17801 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
17803 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
17804 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
17805 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
17806 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
17808 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
17809 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
17810 any more exit policy lines.
17813 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
17814 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
17815 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
17816 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
17817 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
17818 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
17819 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
17820 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
17821 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
17822 will be able to get a directory.
17823 - Http proxy support
17824 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
17825 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
17826 be routed through this host.
17827 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
17828 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
17829 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
17830 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
17833 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
17835 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
17836 clients/servers with an open dirport.
17837 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17838 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17839 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17840 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17841 intermittent connections.
17842 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
17843 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
17845 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
17846 in reporting stats locally.
17847 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
17848 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
17849 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
17852 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
17854 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
17855 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
17858 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
17860 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
17861 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
17862 if you don't want it open.
17863 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
17864 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
17865 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
17866 intermittent connections.
17867 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
17869 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
17870 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
17871 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
17872 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
17873 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
17874 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
17875 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
17876 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
17877 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
17878 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
17879 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
17880 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
17881 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
17882 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
17883 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
17884 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
17887 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
17888 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
17889 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
17890 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
17891 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
17893 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
17895 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
17896 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
17897 specified in HTTP 1.0.
17898 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
17899 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
17900 than once per minute.
17901 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
17902 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
17905 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
17906 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
17909 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
17910 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
17911 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
17912 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
17915 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
17916 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
17918 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
17919 don't put it into the client dns cache.
17920 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
17921 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
17922 until we get our next directory.
17924 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
17925 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
17926 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
17927 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
17928 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
17929 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
17930 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
17931 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
17932 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
17933 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
17934 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
17936 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
17938 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
17939 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
17941 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
17942 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
17943 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
17945 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
17947 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
17948 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
17949 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
17950 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
17951 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
17952 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
17953 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
17954 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
17957 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
17958 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
17959 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
17960 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
17963 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
17964 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
17965 ask them to resolve the host "".
17968 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
17969 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
17970 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
17971 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
17972 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
17973 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
17974 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
17975 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
17976 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
17977 clients don't use this yet.)
17978 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
17979 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
17980 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
17981 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
17982 for pointing out this bug.)
17983 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
17984 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
17985 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
17986 kazaa, gnutella ports.
17987 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
17989 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
17990 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
17991 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
17992 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
17993 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
17994 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
17995 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
17996 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
17997 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
17998 wolf unpredictably.
17999 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
18000 that's still handshaking.
18001 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
18002 you'll choose it for your path.
18003 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
18004 end relay cell, etc.
18005 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
18006 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
18007 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
18010 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
18011 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
18013 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
18014 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
18015 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
18016 list to decide who's running or verified.
18017 - Bugfixes and features:
18018 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
18019 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
18020 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
18021 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
18022 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
18023 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
18025 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
18026 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
18027 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
18028 know you might want to get it verified.
18029 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
18032 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
18034 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
18035 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
18036 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
18037 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
18039 o Protocol changes:
18040 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
18041 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
18042 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
18043 hadn't heard of before.
18046 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
18047 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
18048 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
18049 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
18050 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
18051 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
18052 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
18053 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
18054 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
18055 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
18056 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
18057 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
18058 - Directory caching.
18059 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
18060 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
18061 directory they've pulled down.
18062 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
18063 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
18064 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
18065 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
18066 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
18067 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
18068 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
18070 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
18071 This isn't used yet.
18072 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
18073 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
18074 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
18075 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
18076 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
18077 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
18078 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
18079 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
18080 - File and name management:
18081 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
18082 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
18084 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
18085 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
18086 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
18087 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
18088 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
18089 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
18090 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
18092 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
18093 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
18094 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
18095 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
18096 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
18098 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
18099 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
18100 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
18101 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
18102 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
18103 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
18104 - New docs in the tarball:
18106 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
18109 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
18110 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
18111 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
18114 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
18115 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
18116 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
18119 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
18120 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
18123 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
18124 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
18125 - Make it build on Win32 again.
18126 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
18127 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
18131 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
18133 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
18134 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
18135 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
18136 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
18137 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
18138 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
18139 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
18140 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
18141 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
18142 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
18145 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
18148 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
18149 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
18150 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
18151 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
18153 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
18154 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
18155 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
18157 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
18158 hidden service per 15-minute period.
18159 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
18160 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
18161 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
18162 o Fixes for security bugs:
18163 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
18164 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
18165 a trusted dirserver.
18167 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
18168 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
18169 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
18170 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
18171 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
18172 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
18173 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
18174 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
18175 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
18176 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
18178 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
18179 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
18180 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
18181 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
18183 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
18184 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
18185 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
18186 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
18187 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
18188 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
18189 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
18190 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
18191 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
18192 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
18193 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
18194 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
18195 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
18198 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
18199 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
18200 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
18201 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
18204 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
18205 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
18206 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
18207 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
18208 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
18209 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
18210 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
18214 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
18215 [version bump only]
18218 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
18219 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
18220 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
18221 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
18222 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
18224 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
18227 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
18228 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
18229 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
18230 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
18231 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
18232 o Better debugging for tls errors
18233 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
18234 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
18235 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
18236 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
18237 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
18238 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
18239 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
18240 o win32's close can't close a socket.
18243 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
18244 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
18245 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
18246 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
18247 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
18248 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
18249 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
18250 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
18251 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
18252 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
18253 just close the circ.
18254 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
18255 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
18256 (this was quite rare).
18259 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
18260 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
18261 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
18262 if you decrypted them correctly.
18263 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
18264 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
18265 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
18268 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
18269 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
18270 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
18271 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
18272 a second one and it works.
18273 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
18274 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
18275 alice would just have to wait to time out.
18276 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
18277 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
18278 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
18279 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
18280 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
18281 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
18282 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
18283 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
18284 i'd still like to find the bug though.
18285 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
18287 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
18291 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
18292 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
18293 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
18294 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
18295 he retries a couple of times
18296 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
18297 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
18298 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
18299 too long (they were sticking around forever).
18300 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
18304 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
18305 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
18306 - make hup work again
18307 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
18308 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
18309 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
18310 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
18311 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
18312 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
18314 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
18315 o changes from 0.0.5:
18316 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
18317 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
18318 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
18319 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
18320 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
18322 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
18323 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
18324 in-memory directories too
18327 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
18328 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
18331 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
18333 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
18334 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
18335 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
18336 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
18339 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
18340 [version bump only]
18343 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
18344 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
18346 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
18347 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
18348 but that aren't warnings
18351 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
18352 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
18353 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
18354 the dns farm to do it.
18355 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
18356 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
18358 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
18359 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
18360 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
18363 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
18364 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
18365 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
18366 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
18367 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
18368 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
18369 expect it to have a nickname.
18370 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
18371 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
18374 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
18375 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
18379 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
18380 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
18381 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
18382 - include missing header fcntl.h
18383 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
18384 - deal with hardware word alignment
18385 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
18386 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
18387 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
18388 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
18389 by kill -USR1 currently.
18390 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
18391 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
18392 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
18395 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
18396 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
18397 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
18400 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
18402 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
18403 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
18404 - And fix a few endian issues.
18407 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
18409 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
18410 try that circuit again: try a new one.
18411 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
18412 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
18413 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
18414 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
18415 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
18416 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
18418 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
18419 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
18420 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
18422 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
18424 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
18425 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
18426 side isn't reading right then.
18427 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
18428 RecommendedVersions
18429 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
18430 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
18431 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
18434 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
18436 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
18437 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
18440 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
18444 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
18446 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
18447 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
18448 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
18449 connection is finished.
18450 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
18451 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
18452 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
18453 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
18454 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
18455 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
18456 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
18457 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
18458 rather than warn and continue.
18459 - Make --version work
18460 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
18463 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
18465 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
18466 knows it's working.
18467 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
18468 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
18470 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
18471 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
18472 so you can collect coredumps there.
18474 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
18475 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
18476 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
18477 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
18478 dns cache actually gets populated.
18479 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
18480 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
18481 end cell down it first.
18482 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
18483 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
18486 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
18488 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
18489 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
18491 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
18492 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
18493 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
18494 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
18495 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
18496 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
18498 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
18500 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
18501 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
18502 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
18503 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
18504 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
18505 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
18507 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
18508 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
18511 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
18513 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
18514 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
18515 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
18516 tor. It even has a man page.
18517 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
18518 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
18519 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
18520 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
18522 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
18524 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
18527 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
18529 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
18530 it, apt-getters. :)
18531 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
18532 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
18533 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
18534 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
18535 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
18536 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
18537 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
18538 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
18539 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
18540 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
18541 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
18543 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
18544 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
18547 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
18549 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
18550 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
18553 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
18555 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
18556 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
18557 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
18558 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
18559 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
18560 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
18561 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
18562 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
18563 logfile so you know it's working.
18564 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
18565 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
18568 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
18570 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
18571 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
18572 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
18575 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
18577 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
18578 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
18579 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
18582 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
18583 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
18584 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
18586 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
18587 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
18589 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
18590 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
18591 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
18593 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
18594 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
18598 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
18600 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
18601 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
18602 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
18605 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
18606 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
18607 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
18608 - Add port ranges to exit policies
18609 - Add a conservative default exit policy
18610 - Warn if you're running tor as root
18611 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
18612 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
18613 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
18614 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
18616 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
18619 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
18620 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18621 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
18622 really screw things up.
18623 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
18625 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
18626 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
18628 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
18629 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
18630 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
18631 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
18632 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
18633 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
18636 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
18639 - Change default loglevel to warn.
18640 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
18641 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
18643 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
18646 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
18647 o Robustness and bugfixes:
18648 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
18649 - to get ownership/permissions right
18650 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
18651 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
18652 pull down a directory again
18653 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
18654 causing server crashes
18655 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
18656 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
18657 - exit if bind() fails
18658 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
18659 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
18660 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
18661 - fix minor bias in PRNG
18662 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
18665 - Wrote the design document (woo)
18667 o Circuit building and exit policies:
18668 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
18670 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
18671 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
18672 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
18673 exists, rather than failing
18674 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
18675 which AP connections are standing by
18676 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
18677 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
18678 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
18680 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
18681 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
18684 - APPort is now called SocksPort
18685 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
18687 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
18688 hardcoded (for dirservers)
18689 - Reloads config on HUP
18690 - Usage info on -h or --help
18691 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
18694 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
18695 o General stability:
18696 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
18697 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
18698 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
18699 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
18700 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
18701 to take down the network when I approve a new router
18702 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
18705 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
18706 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
18708 o Autoconf improvements:
18709 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
18710 - Make install now works
18711 - create var/lib/tor on make install
18712 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
18713 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
18715 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
18716 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
18717 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
18718 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup