1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
6 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
7 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
8 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
11 o Major feature (denial of service):
12 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
13 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
14 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
16 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
17 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
18 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
19 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
20 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
21 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
23 o Major features (conflux):
24 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
25 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
26 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
27 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
28 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
29 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
30 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
31 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
32 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
33 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
34 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
35 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
37 o Major features (dirauth):
38 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
39 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
40 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
41 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
42 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
43 address. Implements ticket 40705.
45 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
46 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
47 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
48 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
51 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
52 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
53 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
54 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
55 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
56 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
58 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
59 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
60 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
62 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
63 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
64 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
65 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
66 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
67 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
69 o Minor features (geoip data):
70 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
71 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
73 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
74 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
76 o Minor features (testing):
77 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
78 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
79 run as part of GitLab CI.
82 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
84 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
85 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
86 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
88 o Minor feature (compilation):
89 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
90 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
93 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
94 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
95 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
96 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
98 o Minor feature (lzma):
99 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
101 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
102 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
105 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
106 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
107 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
109 o Minor features (directory authorities):
110 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
111 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
112 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
113 Implements ticket 40753.
115 o Minor features (directory authority):
116 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
117 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
118 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
119 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
120 40130; implements proposal 275.
122 o Minor features (network documents):
123 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
124 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
125 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
126 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
128 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
129 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
131 o Minor features (geoip data):
132 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
133 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
135 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
136 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
137 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
138 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
140 o Minor features (metrics):
141 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
142 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
143 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
144 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
146 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
147 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
148 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
150 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
151 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
152 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
154 o Minor features (relay):
155 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
156 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
158 o Minor features (relays):
159 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
160 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
161 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
162 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
164 o Minor features (tests):
165 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
166 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
169 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
172 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
173 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
174 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
176 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
177 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
178 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
179 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
180 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
183 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
184 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
185 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
187 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
188 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
189 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
191 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
192 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
193 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
194 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
195 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
196 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
197 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
198 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
199 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
201 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
202 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
203 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
204 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
206 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
207 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
208 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
209 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
210 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
211 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
212 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
213 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
215 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
216 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
217 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
218 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
219 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
220 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
222 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
223 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
226 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
227 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
228 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
229 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
230 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
231 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
233 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
234 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
235 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
237 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
238 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
239 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
240 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
241 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
243 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
244 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
245 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
247 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
248 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
249 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
250 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
252 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
253 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
254 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
256 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
257 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
258 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
260 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
261 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
262 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
263 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
264 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
265 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
266 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
267 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
269 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
270 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
271 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
272 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
275 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
276 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
277 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
280 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
281 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
282 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
283 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
284 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
285 congestion control fix detailed below.
287 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
288 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
289 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
290 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
291 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
292 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
293 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
295 o Major bugfixes (relay):
296 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
297 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
298 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
299 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
300 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
301 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
304 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
305 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
306 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
307 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
308 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
310 o Minor feature (authority):
311 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
313 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
314 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
316 o Minor features (geoip data):
317 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
318 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
320 o Minor features (relays):
321 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
322 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
323 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
324 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
327 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
328 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
329 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
331 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
332 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
333 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
334 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
336 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
337 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
338 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
339 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
342 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
343 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
344 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
345 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
348 o Major bugfixes (relay):
349 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
350 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
351 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
352 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
353 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
354 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
357 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
358 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
359 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
360 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
361 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
363 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
364 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
366 o Minor features (geoip data):
367 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
368 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
371 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
372 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
373 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
376 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
377 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
378 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
379 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
380 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
382 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
383 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
386 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
387 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
389 o Minor features (geoip data):
390 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
391 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
393 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
394 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
395 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
398 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
399 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
400 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
401 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
403 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
404 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
406 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
407 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
408 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
410 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
411 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
412 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
413 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
414 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
416 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
417 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
418 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
419 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
420 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
423 o Major bugfixes (relay):
424 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
425 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
427 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
428 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
430 o Minor features (geoip data):
431 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
432 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
435 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
436 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
437 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
438 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
441 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
442 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
444 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
445 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
446 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
447 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
449 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
450 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
451 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
452 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
453 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
455 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
456 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
457 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
458 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
459 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
461 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
462 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
463 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
464 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
465 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
468 o Major bugfixes (relay):
469 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
470 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
472 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
473 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
474 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
475 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
476 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
477 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
479 o Minor feature (metrics):
480 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
483 o Minor feature (performance):
484 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
485 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
486 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
488 o Minor feature (relay):
489 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
491 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
492 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
493 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
494 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
496 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
497 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
498 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
499 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
500 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
502 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
503 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
504 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
505 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
506 are currently opened and how many were created.
507 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
508 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
509 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
510 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
511 - Related to ticket 40194.
513 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
514 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
516 o Minor features (geoip data):
517 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
518 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
520 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
521 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
522 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
524 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
525 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
526 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
527 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
528 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
529 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
530 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
531 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
532 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
533 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
534 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
536 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
537 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
538 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
541 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
542 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
543 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
546 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
547 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
548 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
549 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
550 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
551 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
552 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
554 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
555 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
556 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
559 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
560 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
561 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
562 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
565 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
566 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
567 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
568 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
569 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
572 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
573 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
574 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
575 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
578 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
579 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
580 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
581 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
582 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
585 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
586 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
587 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
588 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
591 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
592 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
593 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
594 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
595 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
598 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
599 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
600 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
601 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
602 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
605 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
606 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
608 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
609 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
610 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
611 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
612 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
613 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
614 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
615 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
616 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
619 o Major bugfixes (relay):
620 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
621 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
622 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
623 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
624 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
625 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
626 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
628 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
629 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
630 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
631 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
632 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
635 o Minor features (dirauth):
636 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
637 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
638 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
639 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
640 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
641 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
642 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
643 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
646 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
647 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
649 o Minor features (geoip data):
650 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
651 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
653 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
654 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
655 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
656 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
657 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
658 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
659 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
661 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
662 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
663 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
664 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
665 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
667 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
668 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
669 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
670 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
673 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
674 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
675 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
676 stability or safety purposes.
678 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
679 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
680 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
682 o Major bugfixes (relay):
683 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
684 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
685 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
686 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
687 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
688 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
689 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
691 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
692 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
694 o Minor features (geoip data):
695 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
696 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
698 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
699 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
700 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
702 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
703 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
704 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
705 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
706 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
707 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
709 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
710 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
711 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
712 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
713 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
715 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
716 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
717 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
718 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
720 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
721 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
722 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
723 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
724 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
726 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
727 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
728 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
730 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
731 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
732 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
733 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
734 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
735 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
737 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
738 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
739 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
740 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
743 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
744 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
745 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
746 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
747 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
749 o Major bugfixes (relay):
750 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
751 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
752 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
753 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
754 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
755 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
756 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
758 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
759 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
761 o Minor features (geoip data):
762 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
763 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
765 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
766 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
767 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
769 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
770 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
771 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
772 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
773 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
774 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
776 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
777 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
778 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
779 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
780 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
782 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
783 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
784 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
785 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
787 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
788 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
789 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
790 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
791 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
793 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
794 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
795 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
797 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
798 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
799 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
800 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
801 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
802 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
804 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
805 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
806 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
807 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
810 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
811 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
812 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
813 should upgrade to this version.
815 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
816 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
817 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
818 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
819 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
820 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
822 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
823 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
825 o Minor features (geoip data):
826 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
827 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
829 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
830 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
831 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
832 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
834 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
835 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
836 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
837 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
838 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
839 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
840 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
841 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
842 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
844 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
845 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
846 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
849 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
850 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
851 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
852 including one massive new one: congestion control.
854 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
855 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
856 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
858 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
860 o Major features (congestion control):
861 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
862 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
864 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
865 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
866 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
867 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
869 o Major features (directory authority):
870 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
871 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
872 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
873 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
874 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
875 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
876 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
877 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
878 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
880 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
881 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
882 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
883 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
884 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
885 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
886 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
887 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
888 40363; implements proposal 333.
890 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
891 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
892 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
893 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
894 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
896 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
897 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
898 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
899 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
900 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
901 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
902 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
903 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
906 o Major bugfixes (client):
907 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
908 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
909 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
910 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
911 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
912 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
914 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
915 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
916 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
917 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
919 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
920 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
921 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
922 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
923 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
924 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
926 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
927 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
928 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
929 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
930 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
931 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
932 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
934 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
935 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
936 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
937 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
938 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
939 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
940 and not the DNS server itself.
941 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
942 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
943 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
944 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
945 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
946 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
947 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
949 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
950 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
951 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
952 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
955 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
956 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
957 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
958 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
960 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
961 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
963 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
964 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
965 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
968 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
969 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
970 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
971 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
973 o Minor features (compilation):
974 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
975 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
976 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
977 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
980 o Minor features (control port):
981 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
982 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
984 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
985 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
987 o Minor features (fuzzing):
988 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
989 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
990 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
992 o Minor features (geoip data):
993 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
994 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
996 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
997 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
998 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
999 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1000 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1001 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1002 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1004 o Minor features (portability):
1005 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1006 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1007 Closes ticket 40355.
1009 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1010 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1011 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1012 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1013 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1014 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1015 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1016 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1017 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1018 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1019 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1020 fix for ticket 40337.
1021 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1022 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1023 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1025 o Minor features (testing):
1026 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1027 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1030 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1031 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1032 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1034 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1035 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1036 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1038 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1039 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1040 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1041 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1043 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1044 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1045 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1048 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1049 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1050 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1051 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1052 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1053 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1054 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1055 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1057 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1058 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1059 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1060 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1063 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1064 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1065 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1066 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1068 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1069 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1070 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1071 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1072 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1075 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1076 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1077 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1078 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1079 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1080 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1081 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1082 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1083 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1085 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1086 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1087 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1090 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1091 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1094 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1095 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1096 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1097 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1098 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1100 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1101 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1102 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1103 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1104 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1105 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1107 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1108 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1109 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1110 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1113 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1114 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1115 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1117 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1118 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1119 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1120 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1121 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1122 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1123 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1124 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1126 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1127 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1128 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1129 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1131 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1132 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1133 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1134 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1135 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1136 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1137 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1138 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1139 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1141 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1142 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1143 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1144 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1146 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1147 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1148 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1149 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1152 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1153 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1154 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1155 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1156 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1158 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1159 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1160 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1161 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1162 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1163 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1164 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1165 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1166 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1168 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1169 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1170 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1171 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1173 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1174 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1175 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1176 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1178 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1179 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1180 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1181 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1182 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1183 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1184 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1185 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1186 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1188 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1189 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1190 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1191 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1192 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1193 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1195 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1196 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1197 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1198 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1199 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1201 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1202 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1203 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1204 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1205 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1207 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1208 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1209 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1210 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1211 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1213 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1214 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1215 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1216 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1218 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1219 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1220 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1222 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1223 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1224 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1225 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1226 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1228 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1229 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1230 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1231 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1232 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1234 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1235 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1236 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1237 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1238 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1241 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1242 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1244 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1245 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1246 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1247 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1248 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1249 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1252 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1255 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1256 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1257 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1259 o Documentation (man, relay):
1260 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1261 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1263 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1264 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1265 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1269 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1270 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1271 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1273 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1274 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1276 o Minor features (geoip data):
1277 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1278 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1280 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1281 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1282 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1284 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1285 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1286 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1289 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1290 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1291 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1294 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1295 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1296 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1297 See below for more details.
1299 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1300 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1301 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1302 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1303 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1305 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1306 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1307 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1310 o Minor features (compilation):
1311 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1312 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1313 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1314 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1317 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1318 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1320 o Minor features (geoip data):
1321 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1322 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1324 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1325 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1326 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1327 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1328 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1330 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1331 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1332 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1333 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1334 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1336 o Documentation (man, relay):
1337 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1338 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1341 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1342 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1343 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1346 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1347 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1348 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1349 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1350 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1351 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1352 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1354 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1355 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1358 o Minor features (testing):
1359 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1360 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1361 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1362 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1363 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1364 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1365 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1366 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1367 fix for ticket 40337.
1368 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1369 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1370 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1372 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1373 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1374 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1375 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1376 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1377 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1378 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1379 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1381 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1382 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1383 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1385 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1386 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1387 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1388 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1389 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1392 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1393 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1394 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1395 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1396 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1397 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1400 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1401 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1402 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1403 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1404 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1405 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1406 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1409 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1410 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1411 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1412 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1413 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1415 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1416 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1417 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1418 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1420 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1421 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1422 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1423 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1425 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1426 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1429 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1430 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1431 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1432 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1433 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1435 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1436 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1437 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1438 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1439 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1440 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1441 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1442 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1443 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1444 fix for ticket 40337.
1445 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1446 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1447 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1449 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1450 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1451 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1453 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1454 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1455 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1456 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1457 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1458 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1460 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1461 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1462 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1463 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1464 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1467 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1468 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1469 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1470 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1471 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1473 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1474 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1475 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1476 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1477 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1478 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1481 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1482 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1483 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1484 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1485 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1486 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1487 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1490 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1491 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1492 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1493 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1494 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1496 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1497 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1498 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1499 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1501 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1502 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1503 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1504 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1506 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1507 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1510 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1511 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1512 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1513 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1514 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1518 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1519 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1520 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1521 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1522 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1524 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1525 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1526 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1527 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1528 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1529 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1530 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1533 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1534 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1536 o Minor features (geoip data):
1537 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1538 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1540 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1541 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1542 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1544 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1545 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1546 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1548 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1549 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1550 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1552 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1553 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1554 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1555 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1557 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1558 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1559 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1560 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1561 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1562 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1563 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1566 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1567 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1568 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1569 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1570 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1572 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1573 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1574 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1575 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1576 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1577 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1578 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1581 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1582 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1584 o Minor features (geoip data):
1585 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1586 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1588 o Minor features (testing):
1589 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1590 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1592 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1593 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1594 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1596 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1597 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1598 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1600 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1601 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1602 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1603 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1604 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1605 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1606 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1608 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1609 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1610 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1613 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1614 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1615 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1616 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1617 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1619 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1620 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1621 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1622 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1623 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1624 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1625 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1628 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1629 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1631 o Minor features (geoip data):
1632 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1633 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1635 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1636 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1637 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1639 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1640 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1641 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1644 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1645 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1646 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1647 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1648 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1650 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1651 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1652 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1653 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1654 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1655 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1657 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1658 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1659 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1663 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1664 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1665 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1666 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1667 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1670 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1671 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1672 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1673 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1675 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1676 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1678 o Major bugfixes (security):
1679 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1680 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1681 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1682 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1683 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1684 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1686 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1687 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1688 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1689 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1690 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1691 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1692 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1693 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1695 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1696 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1697 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1698 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1699 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1700 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1701 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1702 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1703 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1704 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1705 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1706 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1707 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1708 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1709 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1711 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1712 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1713 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1714 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1717 o Major features (directory authority):
1718 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1719 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1720 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1721 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1723 o Major features (metrics):
1724 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1725 documents. This information is controlled with the
1726 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1727 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1728 328; closes ticket 40222.
1730 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1731 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1732 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1734 o Major features (statistics):
1735 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1736 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1737 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1739 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1740 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1741 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1742 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1743 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1744 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1745 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1746 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1747 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1748 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1749 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1750 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1751 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1752 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1753 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1754 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1755 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1756 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1757 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1758 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1761 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1762 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1763 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1764 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1766 o Minor features (bridge):
1767 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1768 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1769 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1771 o Minor features (build system):
1772 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1773 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1774 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1776 o Minor features (client):
1777 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1778 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1779 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1780 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1782 o Minor features (command line):
1783 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1784 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1787 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1788 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1789 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1790 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1791 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1792 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1793 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1794 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1795 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1796 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1797 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1799 o Minor features (compatibility):
1800 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1801 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1802 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1805 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1806 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1807 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1809 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1810 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1811 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1812 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1813 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1814 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1815 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1817 o Minor features (geoip data):
1818 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1819 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1821 o Minor features (logging):
1822 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1823 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1825 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1826 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1827 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1828 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1829 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1830 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1832 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1833 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1834 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1835 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1836 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1838 o Minor features (onion services):
1839 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1840 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1842 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1843 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1844 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1845 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1846 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1848 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1849 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1850 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1852 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1853 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1854 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1857 o Minor features (vote document):
1858 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1859 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1860 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1862 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1863 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1864 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1865 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1867 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1868 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1869 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1870 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1873 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1874 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1875 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1876 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1878 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1879 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1880 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1881 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1882 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1884 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1885 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1886 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1887 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1888 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1889 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1892 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1893 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1894 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1895 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1896 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1897 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1899 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1900 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1901 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1902 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1903 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1905 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1906 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1907 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1908 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1909 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1911 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1912 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1913 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1915 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1916 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1917 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1920 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1921 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1922 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1923 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1925 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1926 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1927 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1928 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1930 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1931 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1932 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1935 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1936 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1937 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1938 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1941 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1942 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1943 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1944 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1945 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1946 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1947 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1948 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1949 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1950 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1953 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1954 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1955 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1957 o Documentation (manual):
1958 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1960 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1961 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1962 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1963 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1965 o Removed features (relay):
1966 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1967 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1968 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1969 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1970 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1973 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1974 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1975 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1976 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1977 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1979 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1980 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1981 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1982 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1983 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1984 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1985 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1987 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1988 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1989 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1990 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1991 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1992 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1993 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1994 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1996 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1997 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1998 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1999 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2000 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2001 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2002 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2003 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2004 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2005 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2006 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2007 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2008 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2009 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2010 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2012 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2013 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2014 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2015 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2018 o Minor features (geoip data):
2019 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2020 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2022 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2023 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2024 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2025 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2026 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2027 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2030 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2031 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2032 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2036 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2037 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2038 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2039 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2040 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2042 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2043 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2044 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2046 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2047 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2048 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2049 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2050 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2051 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2052 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2054 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2055 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2056 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2057 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2058 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2059 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2060 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2061 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2063 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2064 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2065 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2066 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2067 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2068 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2069 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2070 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2071 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2072 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2073 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2074 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2075 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2076 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2077 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2079 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2080 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2081 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2082 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2085 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2086 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2087 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2089 o Minor features (geoip data):
2090 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2091 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2093 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2094 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2095 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2096 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2098 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2099 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2100 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2103 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2104 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2105 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2106 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2107 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2109 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2110 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2111 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2112 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2113 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2114 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2115 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2117 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2118 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2119 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2120 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2121 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2122 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2123 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2124 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2126 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2127 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2128 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2129 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2130 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2131 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2132 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2133 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2134 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2135 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2136 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2137 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2138 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2139 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2140 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2142 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2143 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2144 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2146 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2147 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2148 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2149 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2152 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2153 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2154 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2156 o Minor features (geoip data):
2157 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2158 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2161 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2162 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2163 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2165 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2166 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2167 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2168 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2169 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2171 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2172 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2173 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2175 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2176 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2177 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2179 o Minor features (geoip data):
2180 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2181 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2183 o Minor features (onion services):
2184 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2185 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2186 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2188 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2189 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2190 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2191 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2193 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2194 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2195 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2196 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2198 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2199 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2200 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2201 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2203 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2204 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2205 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2208 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2209 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2210 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2212 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2213 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2214 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2215 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2217 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2218 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2219 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2223 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2224 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2225 in earlier versions of Tor.
2227 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2228 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2229 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2230 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2231 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2232 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2233 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2234 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2235 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2238 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2239 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2242 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2243 compatibility issue.
2245 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2246 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2247 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2248 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2249 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2250 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2251 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2252 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2253 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2256 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2257 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2258 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2259 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2260 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2261 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2262 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2263 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2266 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2267 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2268 Closes ticket 40309.
2271 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2272 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2273 in earlier versions of Tor.
2275 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2276 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2277 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2278 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2279 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2280 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2281 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2282 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2283 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2286 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2287 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2290 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2291 compatibility issue.
2293 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2294 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2295 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2296 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2297 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2298 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2299 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2300 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2301 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2304 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2305 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2306 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2307 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2308 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2309 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2310 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2311 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2314 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2315 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2316 Closes ticket 40309.
2319 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2320 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2323 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2324 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2325 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2326 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2327 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2328 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2329 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2330 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2331 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2334 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2335 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2338 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2339 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2341 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2342 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2343 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2344 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2345 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2346 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2347 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2348 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2349 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2352 o Minor features (geoip data):
2353 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2354 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2355 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2356 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2357 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2358 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2359 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2362 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2363 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2364 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2365 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2366 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2368 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2369 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2370 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2372 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2373 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2374 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2375 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2376 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2378 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2379 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2380 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2383 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2384 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2386 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2387 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2388 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2390 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2391 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2392 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2393 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2394 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2395 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2396 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2397 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2399 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2400 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2401 Closes ticket 40309.
2404 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2405 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2406 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2407 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2408 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2409 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2410 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2411 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2412 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2413 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2415 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2416 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2417 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2418 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2419 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2420 smaller features and bugfixes.
2422 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2423 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2425 o Major features (build):
2426 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2427 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2428 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2429 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2430 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2432 o Major features (metrics):
2433 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2434 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2435 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2436 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2437 information and security considerations.
2439 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2440 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2441 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2442 Closes ticket 33233.
2443 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2444 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2445 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2446 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2447 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2448 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2449 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2450 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2451 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2452 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2453 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2454 Closes ticket 34067.
2456 o Major features (tracing):
2457 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2458 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2459 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2460 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2461 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2463 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2464 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2465 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2466 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2467 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2469 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2470 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2471 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2472 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2473 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2474 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2475 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2477 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2478 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2479 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2480 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2481 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2482 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2484 o Minor features (address discovery):
2485 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2486 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2487 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2488 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2490 o Minor features (admin tools):
2491 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2492 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2493 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2496 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2497 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2498 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2499 Closes ticket 40245.
2501 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2502 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2503 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2504 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2505 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2506 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2508 o Minor features (build):
2509 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2510 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2511 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2512 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2513 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2515 o Minor features (configuration):
2516 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2517 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2518 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2519 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2520 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2521 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2523 o Minor features (control port):
2524 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2525 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2526 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2527 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2529 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2530 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2531 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2534 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2535 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2536 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2537 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2538 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2539 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2540 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2542 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2543 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2544 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2546 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2547 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2548 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2549 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2550 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2551 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2552 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2553 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2554 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2555 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2556 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2558 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2559 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2560 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2561 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2563 o Minor features (documentation):
2564 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2565 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2566 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2568 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2569 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2570 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2571 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2573 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2574 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2575 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2577 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2578 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2579 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2581 o Minor features (logging):
2582 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2583 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2584 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2585 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2586 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2587 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2589 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2590 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2591 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2592 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2594 o Minor features (onion services):
2595 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2596 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2597 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2599 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2600 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2601 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2602 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2603 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2604 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2606 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2607 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2608 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2609 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2610 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2612 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2613 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2614 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2615 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2616 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2617 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2618 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2620 o Minor features (relay):
2621 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2622 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2623 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2624 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2625 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2626 Closes ticket 34137.
2628 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2629 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2630 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2633 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2634 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2635 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2636 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2637 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2638 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2639 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2640 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2641 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2643 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2644 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2646 o Minor features (safety):
2647 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2648 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2651 o Minor features (specification update):
2652 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2653 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2654 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2656 o Minor features (state management):
2657 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2658 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2659 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2660 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2661 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2663 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2664 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2665 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2666 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2667 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2669 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2670 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2671 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2673 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2674 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2675 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2676 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2677 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2679 o Minor features (testing):
2680 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2681 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2683 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2684 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2685 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2686 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2688 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2689 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2690 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2691 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2692 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2693 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2694 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2695 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2696 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2698 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2699 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2700 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2701 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2702 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2703 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2706 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2707 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2708 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2709 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2710 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2713 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2714 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2715 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2716 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2717 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2718 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2721 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2722 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2723 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2724 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2725 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2727 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2728 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2729 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2730 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2732 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2733 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2734 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2735 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2736 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2737 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2738 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2739 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2741 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2742 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2743 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2744 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2745 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2746 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2747 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2748 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2751 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2752 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2753 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2754 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2756 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2757 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2758 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2759 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2760 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2761 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2762 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2764 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2765 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2766 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2767 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2768 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2769 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2771 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2772 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2773 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2775 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2776 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2777 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2778 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2779 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2780 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2781 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2782 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2784 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2785 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2786 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2787 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2788 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2789 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2790 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2791 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2792 Closes ticket 34200.
2793 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2794 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2795 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2796 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2797 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2798 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2799 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2801 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2802 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2803 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2804 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2805 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2806 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2809 o Deprecated features:
2810 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2811 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2812 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2815 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2816 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2819 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2820 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2821 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2822 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2824 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2825 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2827 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2828 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2829 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2830 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2831 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2835 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2836 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2838 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2839 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2840 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2842 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2843 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2844 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2845 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2846 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2848 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2849 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2850 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2851 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2852 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2854 o Documentation (manual page):
2855 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2856 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2857 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2858 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2860 o Documentation (tracing):
2861 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2862 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2864 o Removed features (controller):
2865 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2866 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2869 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2870 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2871 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2872 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2873 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2875 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2876 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2877 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2878 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2879 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2882 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2883 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2884 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2885 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2888 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2889 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2890 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2891 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2893 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2894 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2895 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2896 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2897 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2899 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2900 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2901 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2902 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2903 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2904 weasel for diagnosing this.
2906 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2907 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2908 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2909 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2910 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2911 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2912 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2914 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2915 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2916 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2917 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2919 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2920 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2921 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2922 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2924 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2925 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2926 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2927 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2928 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2929 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2930 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2932 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2933 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2936 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2937 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2938 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2939 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2940 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2942 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2943 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2945 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2946 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2947 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2948 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2949 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2952 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2953 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2954 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2955 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2956 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2958 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2959 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2960 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2961 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2964 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2965 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2966 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2967 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2969 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2970 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2971 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2972 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2973 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2975 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2976 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2977 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2978 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2979 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2980 weasel for diagnosing this.
2982 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2983 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2984 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2985 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2986 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2987 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2988 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2990 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2991 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2992 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2995 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2996 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2997 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2999 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3000 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3001 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3002 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3004 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3005 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3006 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3007 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3008 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3009 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3010 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3012 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3013 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3016 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3017 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3018 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3019 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3020 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3022 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3023 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3024 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3025 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3026 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3029 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3030 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3031 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3032 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3033 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3035 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3036 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3037 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3038 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3041 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3042 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3043 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3044 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3046 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3047 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3048 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3049 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3050 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3052 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3053 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3054 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3055 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3056 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3057 weasel for diagnosing this.
3059 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3060 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3061 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3062 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3063 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3064 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3065 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3067 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3068 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3069 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3072 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3073 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3074 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3076 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3077 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3078 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3079 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3081 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3082 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3083 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3084 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3086 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3087 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3090 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3091 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3092 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3093 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3094 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3095 intended for a different relay.
3097 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3098 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3099 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3100 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3101 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3102 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3103 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3105 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3106 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3107 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3108 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3109 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3110 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3111 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3112 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3113 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3114 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3115 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3117 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3118 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3119 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3120 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3121 closes ticket 40133.
3123 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3124 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3125 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3127 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3128 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3129 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3131 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3132 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3133 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3134 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3135 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3136 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3138 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3139 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3140 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3142 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3143 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3144 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3147 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3148 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3149 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3150 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3153 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3154 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3155 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3156 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3157 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3159 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3160 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3161 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3164 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3165 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3166 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3167 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3169 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3170 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3171 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3172 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3173 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3174 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3175 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3177 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3178 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3179 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3180 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3181 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3184 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3185 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3186 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3187 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3188 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3189 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3191 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3192 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3193 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3194 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3195 closes ticket 40133.
3197 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3198 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3199 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3200 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3202 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3203 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3204 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3206 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3207 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3208 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3210 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3211 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3212 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3213 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3214 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3216 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3217 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3218 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3220 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3221 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3222 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3223 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3224 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3225 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3226 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3229 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3230 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3233 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3234 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3235 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3236 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3237 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3238 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3241 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3242 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3243 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3244 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3246 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3247 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3248 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3249 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3251 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3252 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3253 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3255 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3256 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3259 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3260 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3261 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3262 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3263 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3264 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3265 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3268 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3269 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3270 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3271 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3272 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3274 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3275 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3276 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3277 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3279 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3280 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3281 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3282 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3283 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3284 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3285 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3287 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3288 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3289 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3290 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3291 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3294 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3295 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3296 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3297 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3298 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3299 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3301 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3302 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3303 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3304 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3306 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3307 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3308 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3309 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3310 closes ticket 40133.
3312 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3313 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3314 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3315 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3317 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3318 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3319 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3321 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3322 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3323 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3325 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3326 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3327 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3328 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3329 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3331 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3332 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3333 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3335 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3336 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3337 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3338 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3339 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3340 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3341 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3343 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3344 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3345 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3348 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3349 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3350 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3351 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3352 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3353 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3356 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3357 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3358 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3359 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3361 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3362 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3363 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3364 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3366 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3367 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3368 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3370 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3371 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3374 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3375 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3376 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3377 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3378 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3379 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3380 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3382 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3383 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3384 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3385 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3386 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3388 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3389 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3390 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3392 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3393 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3395 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3396 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3397 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3398 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3399 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3400 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3401 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3402 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3403 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3404 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3406 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3407 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3408 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3409 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3411 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3412 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3413 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3414 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3415 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3416 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3417 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3419 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3421 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3422 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3423 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3424 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3426 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3427 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3428 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3429 Closes ticket 32709.
3431 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3432 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3433 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3434 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3435 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3438 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3439 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3440 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3441 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3442 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3443 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3445 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3446 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3447 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3448 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3449 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3451 o Minor features (security):
3452 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3453 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3454 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3455 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3456 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3458 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3459 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3460 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3461 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3462 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3465 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3466 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3467 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3468 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3469 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3470 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3471 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3473 o Minor features (code safety):
3474 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3475 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3476 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3477 Resolves issue 33788.
3479 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3480 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3481 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3482 Resolves ticket 32143.
3484 o Minor features (control port):
3485 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3486 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3487 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3488 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3489 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3490 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3491 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3493 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3494 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3495 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3497 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3498 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3499 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3500 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3501 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3502 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3504 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3505 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3506 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3507 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3508 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3509 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3510 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3511 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3513 o Minor features (directory authority):
3514 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3515 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3516 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3517 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3518 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3520 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3521 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3522 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3523 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3525 o Minor features (directory):
3526 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3527 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3528 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3531 o Minor features (entry guards):
3532 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3533 Closes ticket 40001.
3535 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3536 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3537 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3539 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3540 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3541 Closes ticket 33901.
3543 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3544 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3545 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3546 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3547 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3548 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3549 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3551 o Minor features (logging):
3552 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3553 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3555 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3556 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3557 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3558 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3561 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3562 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3563 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3565 o Minor features (python scripts):
3566 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3567 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3568 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3569 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3571 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3572 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3573 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3574 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3575 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3576 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3577 up from ticket 33316.
3578 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3579 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3580 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3582 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3583 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3584 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3585 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3587 o Minor features (windows):
3588 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3589 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3591 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3592 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3593 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3594 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3596 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3597 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3598 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3599 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3600 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3602 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3603 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3604 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3605 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3606 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3607 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3609 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3610 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3611 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3612 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3614 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3615 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3616 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3617 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3618 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3620 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3621 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3622 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3624 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3625 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3626 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3627 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3628 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3629 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3630 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3631 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3632 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3633 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3635 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3636 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3637 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3638 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3639 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3641 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3642 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3643 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3644 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3647 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3648 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3649 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3650 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3651 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3652 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3653 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3655 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3656 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3657 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3659 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3660 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3661 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3664 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3665 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3667 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3668 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3669 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3672 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3673 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3674 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3677 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3678 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3679 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3680 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3681 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3682 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3683 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3685 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3686 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3687 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3688 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3690 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3691 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3692 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3693 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3694 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3697 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3698 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3699 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3700 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3701 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3702 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3705 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3706 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3707 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3710 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3711 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3712 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3713 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3715 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3716 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3717 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3718 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3719 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3722 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3723 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3724 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3726 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3727 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3728 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3729 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3730 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3731 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3732 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3733 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3734 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3735 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3736 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3737 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3739 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3740 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3741 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3742 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3744 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3745 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3746 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3747 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3750 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3751 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3752 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3753 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3754 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3755 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3758 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3759 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3760 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3761 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3762 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3763 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3764 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3765 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3766 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3767 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3768 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3769 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3770 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3773 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3774 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3775 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3776 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3777 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3778 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3779 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3780 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3782 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3783 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3785 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3786 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3787 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3788 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3789 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3790 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3791 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3792 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3793 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3794 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3795 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3796 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3798 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3799 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3802 o Documentation (manual page):
3803 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3804 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3805 Google Season of Docs.
3806 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3807 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3808 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3809 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3810 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3811 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3812 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3813 Closes ticket 33778.
3816 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3817 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3818 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3820 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3821 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3822 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3823 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3824 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3825 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3826 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3829 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3830 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3831 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3832 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3835 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3836 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3837 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3838 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3839 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3840 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3842 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3843 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3844 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3845 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3846 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3847 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3849 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3850 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3851 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3853 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3854 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3855 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3856 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3859 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3860 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3861 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3862 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3865 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3866 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3867 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3868 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3869 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3871 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3872 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3873 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3875 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3876 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3877 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3878 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3879 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3882 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3883 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3884 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3885 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3886 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3887 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3889 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3890 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3891 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3892 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3894 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3895 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3896 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3897 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3900 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3901 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3902 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3903 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3904 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3905 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3906 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3907 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3911 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3912 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3913 several that affect usability and portability.
3915 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3916 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3917 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3918 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3919 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3920 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3921 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3924 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3925 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3926 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3927 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3930 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3931 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3932 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3933 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3934 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3935 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3937 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3938 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3939 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3940 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3941 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3943 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3944 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3945 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3946 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3948 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3949 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3950 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3951 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3952 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3953 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3955 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3956 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3957 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3959 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3960 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3961 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3962 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3965 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3966 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3967 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3968 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3971 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3972 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3973 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3974 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3975 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3976 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3979 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3980 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3981 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3983 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3984 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3985 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3986 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3988 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3989 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3990 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3991 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3992 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3995 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3996 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3997 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3998 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3999 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4000 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4002 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4003 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4004 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4005 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4006 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4008 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4009 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4010 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4011 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4013 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4014 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4015 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4016 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4018 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4019 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4020 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4021 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4024 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4025 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4026 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4027 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4028 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4029 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4030 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4031 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4035 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4036 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4037 some affecting usability.
4039 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4040 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4041 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4042 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4043 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4044 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4045 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4048 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4049 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4050 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4051 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4054 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4055 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4056 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4058 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4059 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4060 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4061 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4064 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4065 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4066 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4068 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4069 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4070 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4071 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4073 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4074 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4075 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4076 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4078 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4079 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4080 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4082 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4083 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4084 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4085 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4086 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4088 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4089 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4090 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4092 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4093 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4094 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4095 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4097 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4098 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4102 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4103 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4104 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4105 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4106 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4107 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4110 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4111 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4112 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4113 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4114 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4116 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4117 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4118 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4121 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4122 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4124 o New system requirements:
4125 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4126 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4127 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4129 o Major features (build system):
4130 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4131 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4132 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4133 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4134 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4136 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4137 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4138 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4139 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4140 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4142 o Major features (onion services):
4143 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4144 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4145 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4146 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4147 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4148 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4149 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4151 o Major features (proxy):
4152 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4153 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4154 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4155 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4156 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4157 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4159 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4160 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4161 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4162 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4163 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4164 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4165 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4166 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4167 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4169 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4170 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4171 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4172 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4173 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4175 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4176 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4177 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4178 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4179 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4181 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4182 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4183 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4184 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4185 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4186 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4188 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4189 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4190 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4191 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4193 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4194 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4195 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4196 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4197 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4198 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4200 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4201 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4202 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4204 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4205 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4206 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4207 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4208 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4210 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4211 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4212 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4213 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4215 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4216 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4217 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4218 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4219 Closes ticket 31241.
4221 o Minor features (configuration):
4222 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4223 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4225 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4226 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4227 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4228 Implements ticket 32404.
4230 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4231 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4232 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4234 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4235 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4236 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4237 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4238 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4239 Closes ticket 33075.
4241 o Minor features (controller):
4242 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4243 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4244 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4246 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4247 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4248 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4249 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4251 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4252 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4253 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4256 o Minor features (developer tools):
4257 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4258 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4259 Closes ticket 32772.
4260 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4261 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4262 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4263 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4264 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4265 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4266 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4267 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4269 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4270 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4271 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4272 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4274 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4275 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4276 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4277 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4279 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4280 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4281 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4282 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4284 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4285 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4286 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4287 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4289 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4290 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4291 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4292 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4293 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4294 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4295 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4296 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4298 o Minor features (git scripts):
4299 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4300 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4301 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4302 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4303 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4304 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4305 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4306 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4307 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4308 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4309 Closes ticket 32216.
4310 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4311 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4312 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4313 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4315 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4316 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4317 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4318 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4319 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4320 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4322 o Minor features (portability, android):
4323 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4324 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4325 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4327 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4328 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4329 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4330 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4331 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4332 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4333 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4334 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4335 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4336 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4338 o Minor features (release tools):
4339 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4340 Closes ticket 32704.
4342 o Minor features (testing):
4343 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4344 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4345 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4346 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4347 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4348 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4349 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4350 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4351 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4352 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4353 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4355 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4356 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4357 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4359 o Minor features (usability):
4360 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4361 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4362 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4364 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4365 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4366 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4367 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4370 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4371 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4372 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4374 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4375 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4376 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4378 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4379 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4380 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4381 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4382 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4383 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4386 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4387 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4388 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4389 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4390 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4391 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4392 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4393 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4394 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4395 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4396 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4397 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4398 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4399 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4400 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4401 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4402 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4403 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4405 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4406 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4409 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4410 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4411 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4412 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4414 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4415 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4416 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4419 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4420 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4421 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4423 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4424 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4425 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4426 Closes ticket 32213.
4427 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4428 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4429 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4431 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4432 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4433 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4434 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4435 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4438 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4439 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4441 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4442 Closes ticket 32216.
4444 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4445 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4446 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4447 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4448 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4449 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4451 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4452 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4453 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4454 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4455 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4456 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4457 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4458 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4460 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4461 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4462 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4463 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4465 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4466 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4467 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4468 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4470 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4471 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4472 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4473 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4474 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4475 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4476 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4477 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4480 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4481 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4482 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4483 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4485 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4486 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4487 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4488 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4489 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4490 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4491 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4493 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4494 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4495 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4496 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4497 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4499 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4500 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4501 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4502 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4505 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4506 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4507 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4508 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4509 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4511 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4512 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4513 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4514 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4516 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4517 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4518 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4519 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4521 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4522 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4523 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4525 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4526 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4527 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4528 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4530 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4531 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4532 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4533 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4534 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4535 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4536 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4538 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4539 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4540 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4541 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4542 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4544 o Deprecated features:
4545 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4546 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4547 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4551 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4552 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4553 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4554 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4555 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4556 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4557 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4558 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4560 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4561 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4564 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4565 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4566 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4567 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4568 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4569 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4571 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4572 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4573 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4574 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4575 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4578 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4579 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4580 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4581 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4582 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4584 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4585 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4587 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4588 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4589 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4590 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4591 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4594 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4595 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4596 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4598 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4599 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4600 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4601 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4602 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4603 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4604 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4605 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4606 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4607 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4608 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4609 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4610 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4611 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4612 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4613 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4614 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4616 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4617 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4619 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4620 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4621 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4623 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4624 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4625 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4626 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4627 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4628 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4630 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4631 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4632 Closes ticket 32163.
4633 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4635 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4637 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4638 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4639 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4641 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4642 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4643 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4644 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4645 Closes ticket 32304.
4646 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4647 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4648 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4649 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4650 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4653 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4654 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4656 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4659 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4660 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4661 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4662 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4663 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4664 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4665 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4666 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4668 o Documentation (manpage):
4669 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4670 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4671 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4672 Google Season of Docs.
4673 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4674 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4675 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4676 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4677 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4678 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4680 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4682 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4683 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4684 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4686 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4687 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4688 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4690 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4691 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4692 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4693 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4694 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4695 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4696 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4697 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4700 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4701 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4704 o Testing (Travis CI):
4705 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4706 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4707 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4709 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4710 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4711 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4712 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4713 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4716 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4717 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4718 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4719 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4720 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4721 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4722 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4723 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4724 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4725 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4726 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4727 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4729 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4730 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4731 as soon as packages are available.
4733 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4734 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4735 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4736 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4737 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4738 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4739 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4740 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4741 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4743 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4744 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4745 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4746 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4747 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4749 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4750 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4751 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4752 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4753 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4755 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4756 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4757 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4758 Closes ticket 33075.
4760 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4761 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4762 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4764 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4765 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4766 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4767 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4768 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4771 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4772 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4773 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4774 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4777 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4778 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4779 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4780 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4782 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4783 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4784 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4785 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4787 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4788 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4789 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4790 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4791 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4794 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4795 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4796 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4797 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4798 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4799 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4800 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4801 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4802 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4803 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4804 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4805 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4807 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4808 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4809 as soon as packages are available.
4811 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4812 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4813 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4814 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4815 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4816 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4817 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4818 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4819 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4821 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4822 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4823 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4824 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4825 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4827 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4828 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4829 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4832 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4833 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4834 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4835 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4838 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4839 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4840 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4841 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4844 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4845 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4846 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4847 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4849 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4850 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4851 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4852 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4854 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4855 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4856 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4857 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4858 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4861 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4862 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4863 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4864 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4865 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4866 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4867 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4868 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4869 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4870 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4871 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4874 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4875 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4876 as soon as packages are available.
4878 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4879 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4880 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4881 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4882 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4883 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4884 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4885 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4886 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4888 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4889 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4890 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4891 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4892 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4893 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4894 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4895 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4898 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4899 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4900 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4901 Closes ticket 33075.
4903 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4904 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4905 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4907 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4908 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4909 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4910 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4911 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4913 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4914 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4915 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4916 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4917 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4920 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4921 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4922 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4923 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4926 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4927 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4928 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4929 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4931 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4932 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4933 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4934 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4935 Closes ticket 32629.
4936 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4937 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4938 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4940 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4941 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4943 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4944 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4945 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4946 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4948 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4949 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4950 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4951 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4954 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4955 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4956 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4957 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4958 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4959 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4961 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4962 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4963 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4964 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4965 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4966 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4967 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4968 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4970 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4971 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4972 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4974 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4975 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4976 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4977 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4980 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4981 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4982 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4984 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4985 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4986 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4987 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4988 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4989 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4992 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4993 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4994 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4996 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4997 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4998 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4999 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5000 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5001 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5002 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5003 Closes ticket 32629.
5005 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5006 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5009 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5010 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5011 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5012 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5013 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5014 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5016 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5017 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5018 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5019 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5020 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5021 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5022 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5023 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5025 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5026 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5027 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5030 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5031 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5032 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5033 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5035 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5036 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5037 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5039 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5040 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5041 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5042 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5043 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5044 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5045 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5046 Closes ticket 32629.
5048 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5049 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5052 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5053 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5054 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5055 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5056 bugs present in previous series.
5058 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5059 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5060 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5061 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5063 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5064 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5066 o Major features (directory authorities):
5067 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5068 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5069 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5071 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5072 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5073 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5074 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5075 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5076 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5079 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5080 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5081 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5082 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5083 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5084 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5087 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5088 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5089 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5090 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5091 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5092 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5093 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5094 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5095 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5097 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5098 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5099 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5100 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5102 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5103 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5104 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5105 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5106 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5107 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5108 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5109 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5111 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5112 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5113 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5114 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5115 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5117 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5118 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5119 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5120 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5121 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5124 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5125 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5126 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5127 Closes ticket 29669.
5129 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5130 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5131 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5132 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5133 Closes ticket 31779.
5135 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5136 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5137 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5138 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5139 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5140 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5141 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5142 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5143 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5144 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5145 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5146 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5147 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5148 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5149 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5151 o Minor features (build system):
5152 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5153 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5154 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5155 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5156 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5158 o Minor features (compilation):
5159 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5160 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5161 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5163 o Minor features (configuration):
5164 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5165 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5166 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5167 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5169 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5170 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5171 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5172 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5173 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5174 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5175 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5177 o Minor features (debugging):
5178 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5179 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5180 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5181 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5183 o Minor features (geoip):
5184 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5185 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5187 o Minor features (git hooks):
5188 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5189 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5190 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5191 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5192 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5194 o Minor features (git scripts):
5195 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5196 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5197 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5198 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5199 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5200 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5201 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5202 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5203 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5204 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5205 Closes ticket 31314.
5206 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5207 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5208 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5209 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5210 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5211 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5212 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5213 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5214 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5216 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5217 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5218 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5221 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5222 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5223 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5225 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5226 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5227 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5228 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5229 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5230 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5231 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5233 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5234 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5235 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5237 o Minor features (onion service):
5238 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5239 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5240 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5241 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5243 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5244 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5245 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5248 o Minor features (stem tests):
5249 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5250 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5253 o Minor features (testing):
5254 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5255 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5256 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5257 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5258 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5259 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5260 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5261 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5262 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5263 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5264 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5265 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5266 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5267 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5268 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5270 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5271 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5272 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5273 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5275 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5276 Closes ticket 31859.
5277 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5278 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5280 o Minor features (token bucket):
5281 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5282 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5284 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5285 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5286 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5288 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5289 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5290 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5291 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5292 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5293 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5294 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5295 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5298 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5299 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5300 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5301 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5303 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5304 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5305 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5306 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5307 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5308 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5309 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5311 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5312 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5313 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5314 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5315 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5316 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5318 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5319 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5320 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5321 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5322 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5323 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5325 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5326 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5327 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5329 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5330 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5331 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5332 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5333 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5335 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5336 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5337 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5339 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5340 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5341 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5342 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5344 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5345 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5346 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5347 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5349 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5350 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5351 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5352 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5354 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5355 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5356 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5357 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5358 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5359 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5360 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5361 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5362 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5363 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5365 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5366 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5367 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5368 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5369 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5371 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5372 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5373 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5376 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5377 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5378 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5380 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5381 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5382 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5383 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5384 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5385 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5386 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5387 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5388 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5389 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5390 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5391 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5394 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5395 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5396 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5397 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5400 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5401 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5402 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5403 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5405 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5406 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5407 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5408 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5409 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5410 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5411 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5412 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5413 Closes ticket 31678.
5415 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5416 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5417 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5418 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5419 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5421 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5422 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5423 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5424 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5425 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5426 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5427 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5428 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5429 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5432 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5433 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5434 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5435 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5436 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5437 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5438 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5439 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5440 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5441 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5442 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5443 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5444 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5446 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5447 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5448 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5450 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5451 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5452 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5453 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5455 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5456 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5457 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5458 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5459 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5462 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5463 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5464 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5467 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5468 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5469 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5472 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5473 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5474 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5476 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5477 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5478 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5479 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5480 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5481 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5483 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5484 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5485 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5486 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5489 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5490 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5491 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5492 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5493 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5495 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5496 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5497 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5498 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5499 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5500 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5502 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5503 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5504 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5505 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5507 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5508 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5509 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5511 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5512 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5513 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5515 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5516 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5517 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5518 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5520 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5521 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5522 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5523 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5524 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5526 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5527 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5528 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5529 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5531 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5532 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5533 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5534 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5535 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5537 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5538 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5539 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5540 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5541 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5544 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5545 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5546 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5548 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5549 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5550 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5551 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5552 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5553 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5556 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5557 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5558 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5560 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5561 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5562 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5565 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5566 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5567 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5568 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5569 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5570 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5572 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5573 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5574 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5575 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5576 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5578 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5579 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5580 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5581 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5582 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5583 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5584 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5585 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5586 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5587 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5589 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5590 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5591 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5592 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5593 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5594 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5595 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5597 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5601 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5602 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5603 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5604 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5605 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5606 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5607 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5608 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5610 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5611 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5612 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5613 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5614 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5615 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5616 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5617 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5618 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5619 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5620 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5621 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5622 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5625 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5626 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5627 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5628 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5629 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5630 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5632 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5636 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5637 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5638 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5639 Closes ticket 32500.
5640 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5641 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5642 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5643 Closes ticket 30967.
5645 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5646 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5647 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5648 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5649 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5650 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5651 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5652 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5653 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5654 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5655 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5656 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5657 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5658 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5659 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5660 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5662 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5663 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5664 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5665 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5666 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5667 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5668 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5669 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5670 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5671 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5673 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5674 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5675 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5677 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5678 Closes ticket 30806.
5679 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5680 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5683 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5684 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5685 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5687 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5688 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5689 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5691 o Testing (continuous integration):
5692 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5693 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5694 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5695 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5696 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5697 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5698 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5699 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5700 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5703 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5704 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5705 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5706 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5708 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5709 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5710 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5711 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5713 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5714 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5715 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5716 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5718 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5719 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5720 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5721 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5722 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5723 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5724 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5725 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5727 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5728 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5729 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5730 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5731 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5733 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5734 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5735 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5736 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5737 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5740 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5741 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5742 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5743 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5745 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5746 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5747 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5749 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5750 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5751 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5753 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5754 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5755 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5756 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5757 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5758 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5760 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5761 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5762 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5763 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5765 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5766 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5767 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5768 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5769 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5770 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5771 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5772 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5773 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5774 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5777 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5778 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5779 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5780 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5781 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5782 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5783 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5784 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5785 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5787 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5788 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5789 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5790 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5792 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5793 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5794 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5795 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5796 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5799 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5800 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5801 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5803 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5804 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5805 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5807 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5808 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5809 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5811 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5812 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5813 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5814 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5816 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5817 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5818 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5819 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5820 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5822 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5823 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5824 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5826 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5827 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5828 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5831 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5832 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5833 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5835 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5836 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5837 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5838 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5840 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5841 Closes ticket 31859.
5842 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5843 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5845 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5846 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5847 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5848 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5849 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5850 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5851 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5852 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5853 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5854 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5856 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5857 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5858 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5859 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5860 Closes ticket 32500.
5863 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5864 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5865 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5866 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5867 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5869 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5870 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5871 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5872 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5874 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5875 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5878 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5879 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5880 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5881 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5882 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5883 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5884 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5885 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5886 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5887 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5888 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5890 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5891 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5892 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5893 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5894 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5895 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5897 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5898 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5899 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5900 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5901 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5904 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5905 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5906 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5907 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5908 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5910 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5911 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5912 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5913 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5916 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5917 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5918 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5919 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5920 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5921 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5922 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5923 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5925 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5926 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5927 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5928 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5929 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5931 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5932 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5933 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5934 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5935 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5938 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5939 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5940 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5942 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5943 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5944 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5947 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5948 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5949 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5951 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5952 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5953 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5954 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5956 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5957 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5958 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5959 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5960 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5962 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5964 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5966 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5967 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5968 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5971 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5972 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5973 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5975 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5976 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5977 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5979 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5980 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5981 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5983 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5984 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5985 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5988 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5989 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5990 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5991 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5992 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5993 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5995 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5996 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5997 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5998 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5999 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6001 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6002 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6003 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6006 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6007 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6008 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6010 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6011 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6012 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6013 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6015 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6016 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6017 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6018 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6020 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6021 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6022 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6023 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6025 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6026 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6027 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6028 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6030 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6031 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6032 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6033 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6034 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6035 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6036 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6038 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6039 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6040 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6041 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6043 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6044 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6045 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6046 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6049 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6050 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6053 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6054 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6055 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6056 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6057 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6058 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6059 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6061 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6062 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6063 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6064 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6067 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6068 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6069 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6070 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6071 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6073 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6074 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6075 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6076 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6077 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6079 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6080 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6081 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6084 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6085 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6086 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6087 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6088 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6090 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6091 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6092 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6093 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6095 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6096 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6097 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6098 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6099 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6102 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6103 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6104 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6107 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6108 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6109 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6110 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6112 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6113 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6114 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6115 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6117 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6118 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6119 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6120 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6122 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6123 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6124 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6125 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6128 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6129 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6130 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6131 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6132 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6133 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6136 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6137 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6138 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6140 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6141 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6142 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6144 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6145 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6146 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6147 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6150 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6151 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6153 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6154 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6155 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6156 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6157 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6159 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6160 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6161 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6164 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6165 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6166 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6167 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6168 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6169 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6170 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6171 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6172 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6173 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6175 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6176 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6177 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6178 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6180 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6181 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6182 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6183 Resolves issue 29702.
6185 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6186 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6188 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6189 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6190 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6191 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6194 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6195 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6196 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6197 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6199 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6200 Closes ticket 31859.
6201 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6202 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6204 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6205 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6206 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6207 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6208 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6209 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6210 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6211 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6212 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6213 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6215 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6216 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6217 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6218 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6219 Closes ticket 32500.
6222 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6223 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6224 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6227 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6228 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6231 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6232 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6233 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6234 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6235 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6236 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6237 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6238 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6239 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6240 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6241 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6243 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6244 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6245 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6246 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6247 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6248 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6250 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6251 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6252 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6253 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6254 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6255 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6257 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6258 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6259 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6260 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6261 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6264 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6265 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6266 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6267 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6268 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6270 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6271 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6272 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6273 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6276 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6277 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6278 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6279 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6280 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6282 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6283 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6284 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6285 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6286 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6289 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6290 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6291 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6292 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6293 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6294 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6295 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6296 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6298 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6299 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6300 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6301 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6302 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6305 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6306 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6307 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6309 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6310 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6311 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6314 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6315 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6316 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6317 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6319 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6320 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6321 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6324 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6325 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6326 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6328 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6329 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6330 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6331 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6333 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6334 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6335 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6336 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6337 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6339 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6340 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6341 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6343 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6344 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6345 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6346 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6348 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6349 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6350 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6353 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6354 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6355 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6356 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6357 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6358 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6359 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6360 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6361 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6362 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6363 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6364 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6365 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6368 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6369 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6370 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6371 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6372 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6374 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6375 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6376 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6378 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6379 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6380 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6382 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6383 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6384 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6386 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6387 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6388 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6391 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6392 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6393 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6395 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6396 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6397 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6398 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6399 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6400 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6402 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6403 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6404 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6405 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6406 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6408 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6409 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6410 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6413 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6414 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6415 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6417 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6418 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6419 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6421 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6422 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6423 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6424 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6426 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6427 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6428 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6429 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6431 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6432 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6433 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6434 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6436 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6437 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6438 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6439 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6441 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6442 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6443 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6444 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6445 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6446 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6447 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6449 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6450 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6451 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6452 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6454 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6455 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6456 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6457 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6459 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6460 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6461 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6464 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6465 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6466 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6467 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6468 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6469 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6470 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6472 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6473 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6474 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6475 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6478 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6479 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6480 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6481 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6482 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6484 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6485 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6486 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6488 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6489 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6490 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6491 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6492 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6493 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6494 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6495 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6496 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6497 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6498 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6500 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6501 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6502 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6503 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6504 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6506 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6507 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6508 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6511 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6512 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6513 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6514 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6515 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6517 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6518 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6519 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6520 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6522 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6523 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6524 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6525 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6526 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6529 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6530 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6531 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6534 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6535 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6536 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6537 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6539 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6540 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6541 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6542 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6544 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6545 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6546 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6548 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6549 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6550 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6551 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6553 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6554 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6555 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6556 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6559 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6560 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6561 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6562 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6563 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6564 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6567 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6568 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6569 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6570 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6572 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6573 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6574 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6576 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6577 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6578 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6580 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6581 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6582 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6583 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6584 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6585 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6586 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6588 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6589 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6590 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6593 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6594 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6595 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6596 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6597 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6598 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6599 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6600 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6602 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6603 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6604 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6605 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6606 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6607 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6610 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6611 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6612 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6613 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6614 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6616 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6617 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6618 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6619 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6620 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6621 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6622 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6623 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6625 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6626 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6627 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6630 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6631 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6632 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6633 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6634 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6635 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6636 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6637 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6638 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6639 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6641 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6642 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6643 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6644 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6645 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6646 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6648 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6649 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6650 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6651 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6653 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6654 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6655 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6656 Resolves issue 29702.
6658 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6659 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6661 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6662 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6663 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6664 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6667 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6668 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6669 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6670 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6672 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6673 Closes ticket 31859.
6674 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6675 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6677 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6678 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6679 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6680 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6681 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6682 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6683 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6684 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6685 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6686 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6688 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6689 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6690 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6691 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6692 Closes ticket 32500.
6695 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6696 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6697 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6698 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6701 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6702 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6703 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6704 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6705 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6706 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6707 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6708 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6709 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6711 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6712 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6713 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6716 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6717 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6718 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6721 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6722 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6723 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6724 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6726 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6727 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6728 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6730 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6731 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6732 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6733 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6735 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6736 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6737 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6738 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6741 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6742 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6743 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6744 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6745 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6747 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6748 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6749 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6752 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6753 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6754 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6756 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6757 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6758 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6759 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6760 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6761 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6763 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6764 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6765 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6766 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6767 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6768 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6769 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6770 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6771 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6772 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6774 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6775 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6776 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6777 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6780 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6781 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6782 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6783 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6784 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6785 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6786 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6788 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6789 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6790 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6791 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6793 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6794 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6796 o Directory authority changes:
6797 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6800 o Major features (circuit padding):
6801 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6802 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6803 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6804 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6805 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6806 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6807 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6808 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6809 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6811 o Major features (code organization):
6812 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6813 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6814 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6815 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6818 o Major features (controller protocol):
6819 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6820 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6821 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6822 Closes ticket 30091.
6824 o Major features (flow control):
6825 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6826 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6827 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6828 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6829 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6830 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6831 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6833 o Major features (performance):
6834 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6835 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6836 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6838 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6839 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6840 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6841 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6842 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6843 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6844 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6845 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6846 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6848 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6849 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6850 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6851 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6852 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6853 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6854 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6855 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6856 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6857 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6858 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6860 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6861 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6862 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6864 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6865 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6866 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6867 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6868 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6870 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6871 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6872 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6873 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6874 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6877 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6878 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6879 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6880 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6881 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6883 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6884 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6885 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6886 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6889 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6890 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6891 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6892 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6893 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6894 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6897 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6898 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6899 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6900 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6902 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6903 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6905 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6906 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6907 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6908 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6909 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6910 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6911 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6913 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6914 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6915 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6917 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6918 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6919 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6920 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6921 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6923 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6924 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6926 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6928 o Minor features (controller):
6929 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6930 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6931 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6933 o Minor features (debugging):
6934 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6935 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6936 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6937 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6939 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6940 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6941 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6942 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6943 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6944 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6945 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6946 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6947 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6948 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6950 o Minor features (developer tools):
6951 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6952 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6953 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6954 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6955 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6957 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6958 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6960 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6961 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6963 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6964 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6965 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6966 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6967 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6969 o Minor features (geoip):
6970 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6971 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6972 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6973 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6975 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6976 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6977 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6979 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6980 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6981 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6982 addresses. Implements 26992.
6984 o Minor features (logging):
6985 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6986 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6987 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6988 Closes ticket 30686.
6990 o Minor features (maintenance):
6991 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6992 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6993 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6995 o Minor features (modularity):
6996 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6997 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6999 o Minor features (performance):
7000 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7001 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7002 Closes ticket 28837.
7004 o Minor features (testing):
7005 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7006 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7007 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7008 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7010 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7011 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7012 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7013 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7014 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7015 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7016 Implements ticket 29732.
7017 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7018 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7020 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7021 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7023 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7024 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7025 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7026 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7027 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7028 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7030 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7031 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7032 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7033 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7035 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7036 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7037 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7039 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7040 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7041 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7042 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7043 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7044 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7045 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7046 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7047 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7048 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7049 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7050 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7051 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7052 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7053 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7054 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7055 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7056 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7058 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7059 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7060 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7061 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7062 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7064 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7065 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7066 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7067 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7068 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7069 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7072 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7073 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7076 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7077 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7078 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7080 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7081 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7082 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7083 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7086 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7087 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7088 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7090 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7091 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7092 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7093 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7094 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7095 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7096 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7098 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7099 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7100 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7101 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7102 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7104 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7105 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7106 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7107 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7109 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7110 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7111 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7114 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7115 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7116 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7117 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7118 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7119 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7121 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7122 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7123 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7125 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7126 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7127 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7128 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7129 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7130 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7132 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7133 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7135 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7136 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7137 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7138 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7139 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7140 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7141 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7144 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7145 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7146 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7148 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7149 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7152 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7153 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7154 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7155 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7157 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7158 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7159 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7160 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7161 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7162 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7163 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7164 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7166 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7167 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7168 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7169 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7170 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7171 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7172 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7174 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7175 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7176 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7177 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7178 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7179 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7181 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7182 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7183 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7184 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7187 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7188 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7189 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7190 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7191 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7193 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7194 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7195 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7197 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7198 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7199 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7200 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7201 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7202 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7205 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7206 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7207 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7210 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7211 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7212 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7213 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7215 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7216 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7217 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7218 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7219 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7221 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7222 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7223 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7224 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7227 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7228 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7229 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7230 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7232 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7233 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7234 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7235 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7236 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7237 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7238 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7239 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7240 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7241 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7242 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7243 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7244 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7246 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7247 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7248 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7249 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7250 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7252 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7253 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7254 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7255 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7256 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7257 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7258 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7259 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7260 Resolves issue 28816.
7261 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7262 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7263 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7264 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7265 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7266 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7267 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7268 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7269 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7270 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7271 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7272 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7273 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7274 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7275 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7276 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7277 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7278 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7279 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7280 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7281 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7282 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7283 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7284 Closes ticket 29894.
7285 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7286 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7287 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7288 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7291 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7292 Closes ticket 30630.
7293 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7294 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7298 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7299 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7300 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7301 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7305 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7306 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7307 Resolves issue 29702.
7309 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7310 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7311 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7312 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7313 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7314 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7315 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7316 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7317 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7318 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7319 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7322 o Testing (chutney):
7323 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7324 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7325 Closes ticket 27251.
7327 o Testing (continuous integration):
7328 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7329 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7330 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7331 Closes ticket 30694.
7334 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7335 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7336 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7337 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7338 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7339 long-term maintainability.
7341 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7342 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7343 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7344 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7346 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7347 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7349 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7350 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7351 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7352 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7353 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7354 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7356 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7357 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7359 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7360 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7363 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7364 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7365 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7366 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7367 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7368 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7369 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7370 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7371 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7374 o Major features (circuit padding):
7375 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7376 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7377 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7378 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7379 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7380 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7381 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7382 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7385 o Major features (refactoring):
7386 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7387 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7388 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7389 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7392 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7393 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7394 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7395 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7396 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7397 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7398 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7399 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7401 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7402 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7403 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7404 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7405 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7407 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7408 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7409 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7410 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7411 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7412 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7414 o Minor features (address selection):
7415 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7416 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7417 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7418 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7419 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7420 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7421 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7423 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7424 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7425 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7426 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7427 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7429 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7430 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7431 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7434 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7435 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7436 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7437 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7438 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7441 o Minor features (compilation):
7442 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7443 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7444 Patches from "Mangix".
7446 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7447 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7448 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7450 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7452 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7453 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7454 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7456 o Minor features (controller):
7457 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7458 Implements ticket 28843.
7460 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7461 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7462 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7463 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7464 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7465 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7466 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7468 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7469 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7470 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7472 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7473 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7474 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7477 o Minor features (directory authority):
7478 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7479 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7480 Closes ticket 26698.
7481 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7482 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7483 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7484 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7487 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7488 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7489 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7490 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7491 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7492 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7493 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7495 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7496 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7497 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7498 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7499 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7500 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7501 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7503 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7504 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7505 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7507 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7508 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7509 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7510 Closes ticket 28518.
7512 o Minor features (geoip):
7513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7514 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7516 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7517 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7518 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7519 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7521 o Minor features (IPv6):
7522 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7523 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7524 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7525 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7526 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7527 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7528 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7529 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7530 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7531 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7533 o Minor features (log messages):
7534 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7535 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7538 o Minor features (memory usage):
7539 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7540 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7541 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7542 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7543 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7545 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7546 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7547 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7548 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7550 o Minor features (parsing):
7551 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7552 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7553 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7555 o Minor features (performance):
7556 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7557 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7558 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7559 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7561 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7562 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7563 Closes ticket 28852.
7564 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7565 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7566 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7567 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7568 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7569 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7571 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7572 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7573 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7574 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7575 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7577 o Minor features (process management):
7578 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7579 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7580 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7581 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7582 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7584 o Minor features (relay):
7585 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7586 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7587 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7589 o Minor features (required protocols):
7590 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7591 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7592 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7593 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7594 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7595 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7596 297; closes ticket 27735.
7598 o Minor features (testing):
7599 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7601 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7602 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7603 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7604 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7607 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7608 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7609 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7610 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7611 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7612 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7613 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7614 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7615 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7617 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7618 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7619 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7620 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7622 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7623 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7624 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7625 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7626 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7628 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7629 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7630 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7632 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7633 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7634 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7635 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7637 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7638 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7639 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7642 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7643 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7644 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7645 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7646 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7649 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7650 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7651 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7652 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7653 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7654 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7656 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7657 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7658 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7660 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7661 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7662 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7663 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7665 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7666 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7667 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7668 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7669 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7671 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7672 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7673 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7674 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7676 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7677 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7678 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7679 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7680 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7681 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7682 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7684 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7685 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7686 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7687 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7690 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7691 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7692 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7693 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7694 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7695 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7696 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7697 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7698 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7699 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7700 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7701 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7702 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7703 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7704 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7705 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7706 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7707 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7708 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7709 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7710 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7711 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7713 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7714 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7715 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7716 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7717 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7718 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7720 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7721 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7722 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7723 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7724 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7726 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7727 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7728 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7729 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7731 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7732 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7733 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7734 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7735 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7736 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7738 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7739 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7740 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7742 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7743 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7744 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7746 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7747 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7748 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7749 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7751 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7752 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7753 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7754 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7756 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7757 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7758 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7759 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7760 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7762 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7763 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7764 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7766 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7767 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7768 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7769 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7770 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7773 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7774 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7775 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7776 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7777 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7778 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7779 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7781 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7782 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7783 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7786 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7787 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7788 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7789 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7790 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7791 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7793 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7794 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7795 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7796 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7797 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7798 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7799 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7800 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7801 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7802 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7803 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7805 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7806 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7807 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7808 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7810 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7811 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7812 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7813 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7814 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7815 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7816 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7817 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7819 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7820 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7821 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7822 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7823 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7825 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7826 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7827 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7828 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7829 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7830 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7832 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7833 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7834 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7835 Resolves issue 28816.
7836 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7837 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7838 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7839 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7840 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7842 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7843 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7844 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7845 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7846 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7847 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7848 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7849 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7853 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7854 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7855 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7856 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7857 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7858 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7859 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7860 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7861 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7863 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7866 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7867 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7868 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7869 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7870 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7871 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7872 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7873 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7876 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7878 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7879 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7881 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7882 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7883 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7886 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7887 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7889 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7890 Resolves ticket 28006.
7891 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7892 Resolves ticket 28012.
7893 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7894 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7895 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7896 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7900 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7901 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7902 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7905 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7906 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7907 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7909 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7910 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7911 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7912 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7913 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7914 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7915 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7916 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7918 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7919 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7920 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7921 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7922 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7924 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7925 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7926 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7927 Patches from "Mangix".
7929 o Minor features (geoip):
7930 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7931 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7933 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7934 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7937 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7938 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7939 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7940 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7941 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7942 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7944 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7945 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7946 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7947 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7950 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7951 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7952 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7953 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7955 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7956 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7957 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7960 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7961 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7962 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7963 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7965 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7966 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7967 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7968 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7970 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7971 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7972 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7973 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7974 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7975 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7978 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7979 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7980 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7981 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7983 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7984 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7985 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7986 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7987 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7989 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7990 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7991 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7993 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7994 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7995 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7997 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7998 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7999 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8000 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8003 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8004 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8006 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8007 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8008 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8009 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8010 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8013 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8014 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8015 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8016 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8017 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8020 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8021 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8022 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8023 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8024 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8026 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8027 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8028 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8029 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8030 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8031 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8032 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8033 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8035 o Minor features (geoip):
8036 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8037 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8040 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8041 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8042 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8044 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8045 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8046 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8047 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8048 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8051 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8052 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8053 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8054 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8056 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8057 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8058 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8059 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8061 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8062 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8063 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8064 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8065 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8066 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8067 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8068 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8070 o Minor features (geoip):
8071 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8072 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8074 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8075 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8076 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8077 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8079 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8080 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8081 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8082 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8083 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8086 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8087 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8088 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8089 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8090 to this version, or to a later series.
8092 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8093 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8094 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8095 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8096 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8097 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8099 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8100 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8101 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8102 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8103 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8106 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8107 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8108 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8109 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8111 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8112 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8113 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8114 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8115 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8116 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8117 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8118 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8120 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8121 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8122 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8123 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8125 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8126 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8127 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8128 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8129 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8131 o Minor features (geoip):
8132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8133 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8135 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8136 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8137 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8138 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8139 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8140 Closes ticket 28973.
8142 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8143 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8144 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8145 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8147 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8148 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8149 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8152 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8153 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8154 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8156 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8157 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8158 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8159 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8161 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8162 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8163 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8164 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8166 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8167 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8168 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8169 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8170 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8171 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8174 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8175 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8176 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8179 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8180 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8181 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8182 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8183 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8185 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8186 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8187 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8188 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8189 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8191 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8192 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8193 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8194 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8195 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8196 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8198 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8199 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8200 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8203 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8204 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8205 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8207 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8208 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8209 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8211 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8212 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8213 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8216 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8217 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8218 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8219 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8220 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8221 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8222 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8223 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8225 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8226 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8227 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8228 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8230 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8231 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8232 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8233 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8234 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8235 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8236 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8237 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8238 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8239 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8241 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8242 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8243 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8244 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8245 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8246 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8248 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8249 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8250 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8251 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8252 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8254 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8255 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8256 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8259 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8260 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8261 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8262 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8265 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8266 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8267 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8270 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8271 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8272 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8273 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8274 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8277 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8278 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8279 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8280 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8281 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8282 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8283 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8285 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8286 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8287 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8290 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8291 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8292 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8293 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8294 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8297 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8298 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8299 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8300 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8301 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8303 o Minor features (geoip):
8304 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8305 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8307 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8308 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8309 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8310 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8311 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8312 Closes ticket 28973.
8314 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8315 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8316 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8317 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8319 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8320 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8321 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8322 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8323 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8326 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8327 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8328 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8329 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8331 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8332 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8333 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8335 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8336 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8337 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8338 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8340 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8341 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8342 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8343 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8344 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8345 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8348 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8349 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8350 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8352 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8353 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8354 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8355 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8356 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8358 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8359 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8360 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8361 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8362 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8363 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8365 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8366 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8367 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8368 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8370 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8371 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8372 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8375 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8376 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8377 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8378 affecting directory caches.
8380 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8381 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8382 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8383 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8384 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8385 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8386 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8387 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8389 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8390 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8391 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8392 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8393 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8394 so it will recognize them.
8396 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8397 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8398 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8399 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8400 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8401 with the latest stable release.)
8403 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8404 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8406 o Major features (bootstrap):
8407 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8408 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8409 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8410 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8412 o Major features (new code layout):
8413 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8414 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8415 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8416 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8417 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8418 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8419 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8421 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8422 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8423 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8425 o Major features (onion services v3):
8426 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8427 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8428 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8429 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8430 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8431 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8432 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8433 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8434 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8435 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8436 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8437 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8438 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8439 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8440 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8441 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8442 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8443 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8445 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8446 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8447 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8448 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8449 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8450 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8452 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8453 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8454 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8455 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8456 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8457 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8458 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8460 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8461 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8462 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8463 (if present), and restart Tor.
8465 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8466 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8467 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8468 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8469 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8470 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8471 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8472 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8474 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8475 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8476 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8478 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8479 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8480 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8481 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8482 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8483 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8485 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8486 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8487 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8488 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8491 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8492 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8493 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8494 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8495 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8497 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8498 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8499 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8500 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8501 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8503 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8504 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8505 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8506 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8507 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8508 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8510 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8511 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8512 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8513 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8514 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8517 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8518 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8519 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8520 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8521 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8522 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8524 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8525 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8526 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8527 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8528 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8530 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8531 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8532 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8533 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8534 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8535 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8537 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8538 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8539 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8540 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8542 o Minor features (admin tools):
8543 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8544 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8547 o Minor features (build):
8548 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8549 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8550 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8551 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8553 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8554 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8555 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8556 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8557 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8559 o Minor features (code layout):
8560 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8561 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8562 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8563 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8566 o Minor features (compilation):
8567 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8568 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8569 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8570 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8571 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8572 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8575 o Minor features (config):
8576 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8579 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8580 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8582 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8583 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8584 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8585 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8586 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8587 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8588 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8590 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8591 Implements ticket 27252.
8592 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8593 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8594 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8595 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8596 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8597 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8598 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8599 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8600 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8602 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8603 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8604 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8606 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8607 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8609 o Minor features (controller):
8610 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8611 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8612 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8613 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8614 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8615 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8616 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8617 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8619 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8620 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8621 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8622 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8624 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8625 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8626 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8627 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8629 o Minor features (development):
8630 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8631 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8633 o Minor features (directory authority):
8634 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8635 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8636 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8637 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8639 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8640 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8643 o Minor features (embedding API):
8644 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8645 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8646 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8647 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8648 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8649 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8652 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8653 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8654 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8655 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8656 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8658 o Minor features (geoip):
8659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8660 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8662 o Minor features (memory management):
8663 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8664 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8667 o Minor features (memory usage):
8668 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8669 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8670 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8672 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8673 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8674 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8675 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8676 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8677 Closes ticket 28973.
8679 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8680 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8681 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8683 o Minor features (performance):
8684 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8685 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8686 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8687 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8688 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8689 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8690 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8691 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8692 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8693 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8695 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8696 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8697 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8698 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8700 o Minor features (testing):
8701 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8702 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8704 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8705 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8706 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8708 o Minor features (UI):
8709 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8710 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8711 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8712 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8713 Closes ticket 26703.
8715 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8716 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8717 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8718 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8719 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8721 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8722 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8723 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8724 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8725 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8728 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8729 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8730 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8731 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8733 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8734 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8735 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8736 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8737 - Use time_t for all values in
8738 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8739 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8740 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8742 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8743 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8744 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8745 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8746 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8749 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8750 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8751 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8752 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8753 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8754 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8756 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8757 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8758 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8759 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8761 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8762 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8763 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8766 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8767 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8768 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8769 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8771 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8772 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8773 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8776 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8777 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8778 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8779 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8780 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8782 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8783 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8784 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8785 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8786 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8789 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8790 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8791 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8792 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8793 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8794 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8795 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8796 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8797 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8798 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8799 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8800 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8801 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8803 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8804 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8805 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8807 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8808 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8809 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8810 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8811 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8814 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8815 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8816 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8817 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8818 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8820 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8821 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8822 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8824 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8825 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8826 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8827 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8828 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8829 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8832 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8833 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8834 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8837 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8838 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8839 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8840 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8841 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8843 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8844 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8845 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8848 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8849 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8850 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8852 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8853 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8854 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8855 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8856 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8857 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8859 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8860 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8861 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8862 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8863 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8865 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8866 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8867 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8868 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8869 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8871 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8872 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8873 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8875 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8876 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8877 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8878 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8881 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8882 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8883 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8884 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8885 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8886 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8887 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8888 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8889 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8891 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8892 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8894 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8895 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8896 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8897 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8898 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8899 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8900 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8901 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8902 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8903 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8904 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8906 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8907 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8908 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8909 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8912 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8913 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8914 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8915 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8917 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8918 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8919 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8920 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8922 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8923 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8924 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8927 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8928 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8930 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8931 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8932 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8933 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8934 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8935 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8936 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8937 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8938 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8939 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8941 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8942 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8943 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8944 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8945 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8947 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8948 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8949 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8950 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8952 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8953 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8954 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8955 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8956 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8957 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8958 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8959 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8960 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8961 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8963 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8964 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8965 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8966 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8967 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8968 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8969 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8970 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8971 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8973 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8974 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8975 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8976 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8977 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8978 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8979 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8980 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8981 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8982 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8983 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8984 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8985 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8986 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8987 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8989 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8990 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8991 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8992 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8993 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8994 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8995 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8996 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8998 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8999 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9000 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9001 reported by Keifer Bly.
9003 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9004 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9005 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9007 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9008 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9009 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9010 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9011 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9012 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9013 Closes ticket 27814.
9014 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9015 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9016 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9017 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9018 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9019 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9020 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9021 Closes ticket 27799.
9022 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9023 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9024 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9025 directory within the top-level src directory.
9026 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9027 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9028 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9029 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9030 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9031 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9032 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9033 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9034 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9035 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9036 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9037 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9038 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9039 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9040 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9041 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9042 Closes ticket 21349.
9043 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9044 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9045 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9046 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9047 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9048 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9049 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9051 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9052 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9053 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9056 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9057 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9058 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9059 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9060 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9061 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9062 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9063 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9064 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9067 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9068 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9069 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9070 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9071 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9072 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9073 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9074 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9075 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9076 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9077 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9078 Closes ticket 26367.
9081 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9082 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9084 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9085 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9086 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9087 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9088 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9089 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9090 Closes ticket 19566.
9092 o Documentation (onion services):
9093 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9094 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9095 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9096 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9097 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9098 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9099 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9100 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9103 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9104 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9105 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9106 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9107 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9109 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9110 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9111 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9113 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9114 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9115 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9116 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9117 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9119 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9120 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9121 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9122 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9123 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9126 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9127 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9128 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9129 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9131 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9132 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9133 Implements ticket 27252.
9134 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9135 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9136 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9137 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9138 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9139 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9140 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9142 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9143 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9144 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9145 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9147 o Minor features (geoip):
9148 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9149 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9151 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9152 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9153 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9154 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9155 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9157 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9158 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9159 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9160 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9161 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9164 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9165 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9166 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9169 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9170 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9171 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9172 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9173 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9175 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9176 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9177 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9179 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9180 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9181 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9183 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9184 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9185 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9186 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9188 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9189 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9190 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9192 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9193 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9194 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9197 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9198 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9199 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9201 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9202 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9203 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9206 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9207 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9208 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9209 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9210 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9212 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9213 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9214 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9215 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9216 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9217 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9219 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9220 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9221 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9224 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9225 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9226 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9227 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9228 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9229 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9230 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9231 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9233 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9234 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9235 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9236 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9238 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9239 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9240 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9241 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9242 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9244 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9245 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9246 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9247 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9248 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9249 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9251 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9252 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9253 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9254 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9255 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9256 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9258 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9259 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9260 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9261 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9264 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9265 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9266 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9267 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9268 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9271 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9272 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9274 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9275 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9276 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9277 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9279 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9280 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9282 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9283 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9284 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9285 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9287 o Minor features (geoip):
9288 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9289 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9291 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9292 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9293 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9294 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9297 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9298 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9299 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9300 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9301 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9302 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9303 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9306 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9307 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9308 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9309 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9311 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9312 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9313 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9314 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9316 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9317 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9318 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9319 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9322 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9323 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9324 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9325 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9327 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9328 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9329 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9332 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9333 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9334 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9335 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9336 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9338 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9339 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9340 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9343 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9344 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9345 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9346 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9348 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9349 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9350 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9353 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9354 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9357 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9358 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9359 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9360 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9361 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9363 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9364 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9365 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9368 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9369 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9371 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9372 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9373 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9374 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9376 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9377 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9379 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9380 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9381 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9382 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9384 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9385 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9388 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9389 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9390 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9391 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9393 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9394 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9395 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9396 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9398 o Minor features (geoip):
9399 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9400 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9402 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9403 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9404 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9405 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9406 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9407 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9408 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9410 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9411 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9412 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9413 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9414 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9415 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9416 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9417 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9420 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9421 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9422 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9423 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9425 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9426 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9427 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9428 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9430 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9431 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9432 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9433 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9434 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9436 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9437 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9438 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9439 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9440 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9442 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9443 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9444 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9447 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9448 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9449 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9450 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9451 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9453 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9454 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9455 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9458 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9459 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9460 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9463 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9464 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9465 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9468 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9469 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9471 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9472 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9473 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9474 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9476 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9477 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9478 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9479 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9481 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9482 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9483 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9486 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9487 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9488 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9489 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9490 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9491 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9494 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9495 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9496 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9497 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9498 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9500 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9501 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9502 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9503 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9504 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9506 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9507 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9508 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9511 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9512 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9514 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9515 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9516 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9517 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9519 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9520 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9521 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9522 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9524 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9525 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9526 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9528 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9529 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9530 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9531 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9533 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9534 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9537 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9538 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9539 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9540 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9542 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9543 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9544 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9545 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9547 o Minor features (geoip):
9548 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9549 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9552 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9553 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9554 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9555 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9556 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9557 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9559 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9560 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9561 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9562 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9563 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9564 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9565 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9566 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9570 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9571 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9572 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9574 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9575 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9576 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9577 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9579 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9580 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9581 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9582 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9583 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9585 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9586 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9587 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9588 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9589 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9591 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9592 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9593 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9596 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9597 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9598 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9599 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9601 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9602 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9603 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9604 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9605 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9607 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9608 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9609 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9612 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9613 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9614 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9617 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9618 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9619 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9622 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9623 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9624 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9625 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9627 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9628 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9629 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9632 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9633 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9635 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9636 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9637 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9638 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9639 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9640 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9641 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9643 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9644 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9645 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9646 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9647 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9649 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9650 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9651 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9652 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9654 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9655 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9656 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9658 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9659 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9660 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9661 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9662 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9663 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9664 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9667 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9668 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9669 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9670 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9671 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9673 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9674 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9675 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9676 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9677 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9680 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9681 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9684 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9685 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9686 compilation and portability fixes.
9688 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9689 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9690 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9691 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9692 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9693 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9694 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9695 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9697 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9698 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9700 o New system requirements:
9701 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9702 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9703 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9704 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9706 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9707 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9708 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9709 To disable the module, the configure option
9710 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9711 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9713 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9714 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9715 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9716 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9717 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9718 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9719 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9720 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9721 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9722 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9723 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9725 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9726 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9727 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9728 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9729 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9730 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9731 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9732 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9733 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9734 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9735 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9736 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9737 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9738 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9739 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9740 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9741 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9742 Tor's uptime (26009).
9744 o Minor features (accounting):
9745 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9746 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9747 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9748 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9750 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9751 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9752 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9753 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9755 o Minor features (code quality):
9756 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9757 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9758 Closes ticket 25024.
9760 o Minor features (compatibility):
9761 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9762 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9763 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9764 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9765 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9766 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9768 o Minor features (compilation):
9769 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9770 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9771 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9772 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9773 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9774 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9775 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9776 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9779 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9780 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9781 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9782 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9783 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9784 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9786 o Minor features (configuration):
9787 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9788 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9789 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9790 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9791 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9793 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9794 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9795 Implements ticket 27449.
9796 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9797 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9799 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9800 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9802 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9803 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9804 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9805 Implements ticket 27275.
9806 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9807 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9808 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9809 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9810 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9812 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9813 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9816 o Minor features (control port):
9817 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9818 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9819 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9820 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9821 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9822 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9823 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9824 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9825 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9826 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9828 o Minor features (controller):
9829 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9830 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9831 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9833 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9834 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9835 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9836 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9837 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9838 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9839 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9841 o Minor features (directory authority):
9842 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9843 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9844 Closes ticket 23909.
9846 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9847 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9848 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9849 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9851 o Minor features (entry guards):
9852 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9853 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9855 o Minor features (geoip):
9856 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9857 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9859 o Minor features (performance):
9860 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9861 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9862 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9863 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9865 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9866 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9868 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9869 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9871 o Minor features (testing):
9872 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9873 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9875 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9876 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9877 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9878 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9879 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9880 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9882 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9883 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9884 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9885 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9886 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9888 o Minor features (unit tests):
9889 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9890 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9891 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9894 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9895 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9896 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9897 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9898 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9899 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9901 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9902 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9903 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9904 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9906 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9907 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9908 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9909 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9910 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9912 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9913 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9914 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9915 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9916 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9917 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9918 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9919 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9921 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9922 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9923 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9924 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9925 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9926 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9927 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9928 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9929 Closes ticket 26245.
9930 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9931 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9932 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9934 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9935 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9936 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9937 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9939 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9940 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9941 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9942 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9943 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9945 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9946 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9947 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9948 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9949 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9950 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9951 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9952 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9953 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9954 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9955 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9956 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9958 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9959 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9960 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9963 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9964 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9965 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9968 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9969 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9970 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9971 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9972 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9973 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9976 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9977 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9978 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9979 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9980 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9981 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9982 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9984 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9985 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9986 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9987 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9989 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9990 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9991 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9992 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9993 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9995 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9996 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9997 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10000 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10001 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10002 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10004 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10005 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10007 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10008 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10009 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10010 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10011 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10013 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10014 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10015 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10017 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10018 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10019 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10020 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10021 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10024 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10025 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10026 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10027 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10029 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10030 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10031 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10032 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10033 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10034 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10035 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10037 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10038 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10040 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10041 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10042 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10043 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10044 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10046 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10047 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10048 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10049 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10050 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10052 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10053 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10054 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10055 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10057 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10058 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10059 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10060 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10063 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10064 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10065 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10066 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10067 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10068 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10069 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10070 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10071 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10072 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10074 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10075 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10076 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10077 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10078 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10079 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10080 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10082 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10083 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10084 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10085 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10086 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10088 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10089 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10090 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10093 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10094 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10095 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10096 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10097 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10099 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10100 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10101 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10102 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10103 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10104 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10105 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10108 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10109 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10110 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10111 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10112 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10114 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10115 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10116 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10117 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10118 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10120 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10121 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10122 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10123 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10124 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10125 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10127 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10128 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10129 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10131 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10132 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10133 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10134 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10135 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10136 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10137 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10138 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10140 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10141 confusing we renamed some functions and
10142 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10143 router_should_check_reachability() and
10144 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10145 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10146 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10147 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10148 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10150 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10151 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10153 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10154 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10155 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10156 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10157 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10158 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10159 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10160 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10161 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10162 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10163 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10164 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10165 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10166 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10167 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10168 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10169 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10170 Closes ticket 25766.
10171 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10172 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10173 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10174 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10175 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10176 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10177 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10178 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10179 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10180 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10181 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10182 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10183 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10184 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10186 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10187 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10188 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10189 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10190 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10191 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10192 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10193 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10194 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10196 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10197 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10198 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10199 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10201 o Deprecated features:
10202 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10203 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10204 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10205 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10206 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10207 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10209 o Removed features:
10210 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10211 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10212 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10213 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10214 24378 and proposal 290.
10215 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10216 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10217 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10218 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10219 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10220 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10221 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10222 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10223 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10224 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10225 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10226 their local router. Closes 25409.
10227 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10228 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10229 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10230 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10231 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10232 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10233 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10234 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10235 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10236 Closes ticket 25268.
10239 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10240 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10241 bridge relays should upgrade.
10243 o Directory authority changes:
10244 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10245 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10246 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10249 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10250 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10251 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10254 o Directory authority changes:
10255 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10256 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10257 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10259 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10260 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10261 Closes ticket 26343.
10263 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10264 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10265 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10266 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10267 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10269 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10270 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10271 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10273 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10274 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10275 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10276 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10278 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10279 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10280 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10282 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10283 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10284 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10285 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10286 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10287 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10289 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10290 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10291 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10292 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10294 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10295 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10296 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10299 o Minor features (geoip):
10300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10301 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10303 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10304 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10305 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10306 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10307 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10309 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10310 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10311 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10313 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10314 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10315 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10316 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10317 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10318 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10319 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10320 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10323 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10324 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10325 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10326 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10327 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10328 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10330 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10331 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10332 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10333 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10334 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10336 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10337 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10338 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10339 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10340 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10342 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10343 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10344 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10347 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10348 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10349 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10351 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10352 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10353 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10354 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10356 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10357 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10358 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10359 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10360 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10361 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10362 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10364 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10365 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10366 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10367 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10370 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10371 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10372 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10374 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10375 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10376 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10378 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10379 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10380 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10381 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10385 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10386 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10387 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10389 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10390 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10391 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10393 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10394 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10395 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10398 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10399 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10400 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10403 o Directory authority changes:
10404 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10405 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10406 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10408 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10409 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10410 Closes ticket 26343.
10412 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10413 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10414 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10415 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10416 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10418 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10419 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10420 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10421 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10423 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10424 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10425 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10426 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10427 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10428 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10430 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10431 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10432 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10435 o Minor features (geoip):
10436 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10437 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10439 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10440 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10441 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10442 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10443 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10445 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10446 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10447 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10449 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10450 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10451 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10452 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10455 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10456 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10457 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10458 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10459 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10460 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10462 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10463 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10464 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10465 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10466 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10468 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10469 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10470 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10473 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10474 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10475 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10477 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10478 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10479 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10480 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10482 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10483 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10484 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10486 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10487 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10488 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10491 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10492 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10493 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10495 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10496 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10497 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10498 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10500 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10501 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10502 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10505 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10506 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10507 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10510 o Minor features (geoip):
10511 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10512 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10514 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10515 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10516 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10517 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10519 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10520 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10521 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10522 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10523 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10526 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10527 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10528 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10529 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10530 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10532 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10533 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10534 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10535 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10537 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10538 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10539 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10541 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10542 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10543 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10544 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10547 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10548 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10549 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10550 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10552 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10553 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10554 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10555 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10556 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10557 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10558 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10559 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10563 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10564 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10565 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10567 o Directory authority changes:
10568 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10569 Closes ticket 26343.
10571 o Minor features (geoip):
10572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10573 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10575 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10576 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10577 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10578 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10579 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10580 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10583 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10584 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10586 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10587 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10588 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10589 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10590 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10592 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10593 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10594 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10596 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10597 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10598 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10599 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10600 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10601 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10604 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10605 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10606 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10608 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10609 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10610 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10611 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10612 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10613 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10615 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10616 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10618 o New system requirements:
10619 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10620 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10622 o Major features (embedding):
10623 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10624 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10625 Closes ticket 23684.
10626 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10627 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10628 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10629 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10630 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10631 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10633 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10634 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10635 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10636 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10638 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10639 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10640 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10641 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10642 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10644 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10645 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10648 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10649 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10650 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10651 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10652 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10653 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10654 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10656 o Major features (onion services):
10657 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10658 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10659 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10660 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10661 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10663 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10664 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10665 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10666 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10667 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10668 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10670 o Major features (relay):
10671 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10672 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10673 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10674 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10675 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10677 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10678 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10679 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10680 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10681 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10682 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10683 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10684 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10686 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10687 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10688 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10689 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10690 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10692 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10693 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10694 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10695 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10696 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10698 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10699 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10700 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10701 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10703 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10704 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10705 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10706 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10707 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10708 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10709 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10710 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10712 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10713 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10714 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10715 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10717 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10718 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10719 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10721 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10722 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10723 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10724 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10725 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10726 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10727 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10729 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10730 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10731 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10732 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10733 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10735 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10736 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10737 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10740 o Minor features (cleanup):
10741 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10742 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10744 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10745 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10746 Closes ticket 26006.
10748 o Minor features (config options):
10749 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10750 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10751 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10754 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10755 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10756 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10758 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10759 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10760 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10761 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10762 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10763 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10765 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10766 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10767 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10768 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10769 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10770 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10771 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10772 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10773 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10774 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10776 o Minor features (directory authority):
10777 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10778 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10780 o Minor features (embedding):
10781 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10782 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10783 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10784 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10785 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10786 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10787 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10788 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10789 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10790 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10791 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10792 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10793 Closes ticket 23848.
10794 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10795 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10796 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10798 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10799 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10800 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10801 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10802 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10803 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10804 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10805 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10808 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10809 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10810 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10811 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10812 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10813 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10814 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10816 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10817 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10818 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10819 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10820 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10821 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10822 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10823 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10824 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10825 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10826 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10827 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10829 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10830 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10831 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10833 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10834 Implements ticket 24791.
10836 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10837 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10838 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10839 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10840 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10841 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10843 o Minor features (geoip):
10844 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10845 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10847 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10848 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10849 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10852 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10853 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10854 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10855 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10856 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10858 o Minor features (IPv6):
10859 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10860 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10861 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10862 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10863 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10866 o Minor features (log messages):
10867 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10868 information about memory usage from the different compression
10869 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10870 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10871 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10872 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10873 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10875 o Minor features (logging):
10876 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10877 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10878 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10881 o Minor features (performance):
10882 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10883 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10884 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10885 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10887 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10888 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10889 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10890 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10891 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10892 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10893 Implements ticket 24374.
10895 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10896 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10897 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10898 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10899 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10901 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10902 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10903 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10904 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10907 o Minor features (sandbox):
10908 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10909 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10910 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10912 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10913 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10914 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10915 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10916 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10918 o Minor features (testing):
10919 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10922 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10923 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10924 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10925 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10926 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10927 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10928 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10929 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10930 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10932 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10933 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10934 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10935 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10936 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10937 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10938 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10939 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10940 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10943 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10944 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10945 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10946 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10948 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10949 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10950 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10952 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10953 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10954 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10955 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10956 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10958 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10959 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10960 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10963 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10964 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10965 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10966 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10968 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10969 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10970 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10971 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10972 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10973 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10974 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10976 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10977 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10978 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10979 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10981 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10982 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10983 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10984 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10985 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10987 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10988 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10989 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10990 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10993 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10994 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10995 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10996 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10997 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10999 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11000 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11001 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11002 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11003 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11006 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11007 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11008 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11009 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11010 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11012 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11013 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11014 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11017 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11018 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11019 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11021 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11022 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11023 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11024 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11025 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11027 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11028 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11029 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11030 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11032 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11033 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11034 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11035 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11036 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11037 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11039 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11040 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11041 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11042 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11044 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11045 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11046 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11048 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11049 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11050 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11051 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11053 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11054 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11055 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11056 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11059 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11060 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11061 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11062 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11063 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11064 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11067 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11068 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11069 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11070 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11072 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11073 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11074 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11076 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11077 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11078 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11079 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11080 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11081 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11083 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11084 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11085 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11086 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11087 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11088 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11089 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11091 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11092 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11093 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11094 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11096 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11097 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11098 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11099 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11100 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11102 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11103 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11104 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11105 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11106 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11107 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11109 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11110 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11111 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11112 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11113 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11114 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11115 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11116 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11117 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11118 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11119 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11120 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11122 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11123 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11124 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11126 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11127 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11128 would call the Rust implementation of
11129 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11130 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11131 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11132 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11133 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11135 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11136 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11137 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11138 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11140 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11141 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11142 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11143 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11145 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11146 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11148 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11149 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11150 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11151 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11152 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11153 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11155 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11156 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11157 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11158 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11159 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11161 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11163 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11164 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11165 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11167 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11169 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11170 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11171 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11172 "aruna1234" and teor.
11173 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11174 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11175 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11176 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11178 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11179 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11180 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11181 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11182 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11183 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11184 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11185 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11186 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11187 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11189 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11190 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11193 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11195 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11196 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11197 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11198 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11200 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11201 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11202 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11203 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11205 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11206 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11207 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11208 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11209 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11211 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11212 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11213 adding very little except for unit test.
11215 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11216 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11217 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11218 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11220 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11221 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11222 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11224 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11225 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11226 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11228 o Documentation (man page):
11229 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11230 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11233 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11234 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11235 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11239 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11240 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11243 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11244 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11246 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11247 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11249 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11252 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11253 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11254 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11256 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11257 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11258 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11259 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11262 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11263 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11264 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11265 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11268 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11269 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11270 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11271 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11272 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11273 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11274 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11275 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11276 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11277 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11278 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11279 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11280 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11282 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11283 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11284 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11286 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11287 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11288 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11289 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11290 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11291 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11292 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11294 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11295 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11296 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11298 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11299 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11300 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11301 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11302 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11303 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11304 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11306 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11307 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11308 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11309 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11311 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11312 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11313 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11314 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11316 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11317 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11318 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11319 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11320 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11321 Closes ticket 24978.
11323 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11324 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11325 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11326 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11327 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11328 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11329 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11330 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11331 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11333 o Minor features (geoip):
11334 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11337 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11338 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11339 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11340 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11341 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11343 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11344 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11345 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11346 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11347 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11349 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11350 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11351 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11352 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11353 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11356 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11357 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11358 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11359 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11360 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11361 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11362 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11363 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11364 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11365 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11366 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11369 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11370 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11371 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11373 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11374 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11375 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11378 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11379 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11380 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11381 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11382 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11383 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11384 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11386 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11387 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11388 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11389 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11390 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11391 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11392 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11393 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11394 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11397 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11398 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11399 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11400 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11401 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11402 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11404 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11405 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11406 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11407 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11409 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11410 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11411 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11412 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11413 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11416 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11417 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11418 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11419 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11420 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11421 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11423 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11424 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11425 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11426 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11427 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11428 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11429 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11430 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11431 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11432 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11433 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11434 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11436 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11437 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11438 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11439 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11441 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11442 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11443 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11444 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11446 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11447 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11448 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11449 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11452 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11453 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11454 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11455 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11456 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11458 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11459 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11461 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11462 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11464 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11465 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11466 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11469 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11470 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11471 later Tor releases.
11473 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11474 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11476 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11477 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11479 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11482 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11483 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11484 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11486 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11487 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11488 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11489 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11492 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11493 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11494 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11495 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11496 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11497 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11498 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11499 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11500 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11501 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11502 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11503 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11504 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11506 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11507 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11508 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11509 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11510 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11511 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11512 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11513 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11514 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11516 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11517 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11518 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11519 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11520 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11521 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11522 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11524 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11525 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11526 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11527 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11529 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11530 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11531 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11532 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11533 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11534 Closes ticket 24978.
11536 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11537 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11538 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11539 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11541 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11542 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11543 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11544 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11545 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11546 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11547 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11548 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11549 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11551 o Minor features (geoip):
11552 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11555 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11556 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11557 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11559 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11560 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11561 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11562 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11563 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11565 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11566 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11567 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11568 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11569 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11572 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11573 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11574 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11575 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11579 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11580 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11582 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11583 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11584 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11587 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11588 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11589 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11590 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11591 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11592 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11593 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11595 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11596 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11597 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11598 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11599 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11602 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11603 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11604 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11605 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11606 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11607 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11609 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11610 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11611 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11612 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11614 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11615 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11616 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11617 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11618 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11619 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11620 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11621 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11622 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11623 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11624 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11625 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11627 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11628 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11629 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11630 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11633 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11634 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11635 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11636 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11637 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11639 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11640 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11642 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11643 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11646 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11647 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11648 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11651 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11652 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11654 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11655 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11656 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11657 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11658 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11659 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11662 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11663 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11665 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11668 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11669 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11670 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11671 the DoS mitigations.)
11673 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11674 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11675 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11676 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11679 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11680 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11681 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11682 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11684 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11685 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11686 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11687 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11688 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11689 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11690 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11691 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11692 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11693 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11694 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11695 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11696 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11698 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11699 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11700 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11701 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11702 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11703 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11704 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11705 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11706 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11707 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11708 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11710 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11711 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11712 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11714 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11715 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11716 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11717 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11718 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11719 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11720 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11722 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11723 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11724 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11725 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11727 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11728 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11729 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11730 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11732 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11733 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11734 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11735 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11736 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11737 Closes ticket 24978.
11739 o Minor features (geoip):
11740 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11743 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11744 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11745 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11748 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11749 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11750 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11751 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11752 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11754 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11755 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11756 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11757 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11758 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11759 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11760 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11762 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11763 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11764 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11765 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11766 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11768 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11769 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11770 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11771 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11773 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11774 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11775 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11776 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11777 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11779 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11780 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11781 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11782 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11784 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11785 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11786 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11787 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11789 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11790 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11791 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11792 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11794 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11795 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11797 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11798 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11800 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11801 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11802 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11804 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11805 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11806 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11807 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11808 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11810 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11811 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11812 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11814 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11815 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11816 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11820 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11821 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11823 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11824 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11825 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11826 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11827 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11828 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11830 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11831 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11832 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11833 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11834 with the 0.2.9 series.
11836 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11837 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11839 o Directory authority changes:
11840 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11841 Closes ticket 23910.
11842 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11843 Closes ticket 23592.
11844 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11845 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11846 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11847 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11848 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11851 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11852 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11853 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11854 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11855 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11856 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11859 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11860 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11862 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11865 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11868 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11870 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11872 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11874 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11875 they are 56 characters long, as in
11876 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11878 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11879 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11880 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11881 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11882 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11885 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11886 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11887 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11888 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11889 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11890 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11891 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11893 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11894 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11895 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11896 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11897 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11898 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11899 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11900 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11901 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11902 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11903 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11904 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11906 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11907 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11908 more information, see the design paper at
11909 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11910 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11911 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11912 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11914 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11915 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11916 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11917 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11918 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11919 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11920 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11921 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11923 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11924 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11925 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11926 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11929 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11930 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11931 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11932 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11933 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11934 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11935 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11936 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11937 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11938 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11939 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11940 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11943 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11944 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11945 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11946 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11947 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11948 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11949 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11950 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11951 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11953 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11954 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11955 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11956 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11957 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11958 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11959 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11960 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11961 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11962 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11963 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11966 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11967 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11968 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11969 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11970 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11971 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11972 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11974 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11975 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11976 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11977 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11978 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11979 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11982 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11983 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11984 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11985 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11987 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11988 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11989 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11990 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11992 o Minor features (bridge):
11993 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11994 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11995 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11996 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11997 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11998 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11999 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12000 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12001 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12002 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12003 related to ticket 23080.
12005 o Minor features (bug detection):
12006 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12007 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12008 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12010 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12011 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12012 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12013 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12014 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12015 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12016 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12017 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12018 Closes ticket 23643.
12020 o Minor features (client):
12021 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12022 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12023 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12024 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12025 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12026 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12027 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12028 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12029 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12030 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12031 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12032 Resolves ticket 23670.
12034 o Minor features (command line):
12035 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12036 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12037 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12039 o Minor features (control port):
12040 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12041 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12042 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12044 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12045 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12047 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12048 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12049 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12050 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12051 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12052 Closes ticket 23237.
12053 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12054 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12056 o Minor features (development support):
12057 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12058 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12059 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12060 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12061 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12062 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12064 o Minor features (directory authority):
12065 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12066 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12067 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12068 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12070 o Minor features (ed25519):
12071 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12072 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12073 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12075 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12076 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12077 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12079 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12080 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12081 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12082 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12083 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12084 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12085 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12086 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12087 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12089 o Minor features (geoip):
12090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12093 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12094 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12095 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12096 another program, regardless of the settings of
12097 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12098 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12099 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12101 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12102 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12103 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12105 o Minor features (logging):
12106 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12108 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12109 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12111 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12112 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12113 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12114 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12115 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12116 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12117 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12118 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12119 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12120 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12122 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12123 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12125 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12126 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12127 the circuit identifier(s).
12128 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12129 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12131 o Minor features (portability):
12132 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12133 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12135 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12136 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12137 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12138 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12140 o Minor features (relay):
12141 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12142 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12143 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12144 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12145 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12146 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12147 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12148 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12150 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12151 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12152 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12153 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12155 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12156 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12157 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12158 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12159 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12161 o Minor features (robustness):
12162 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12163 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12165 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12166 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12167 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12170 o Minor features (static analysis):
12171 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12172 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12175 o Minor features (testing):
12176 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12177 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12178 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12179 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12181 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12182 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12183 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12184 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12185 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12187 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12188 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12189 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12190 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12191 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12194 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12195 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12196 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12199 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12200 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12201 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12202 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12203 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12204 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12205 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12206 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12207 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12208 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12209 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12210 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12211 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12213 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12214 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12215 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12216 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12218 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12219 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12220 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12221 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12222 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12223 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12224 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12225 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12226 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12227 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12228 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12229 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12230 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12231 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12232 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12233 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12234 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12236 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12237 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12238 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12239 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12241 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12242 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12243 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12244 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12246 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12247 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12248 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12249 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12250 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12251 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12252 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12253 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12255 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12256 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12257 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12258 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12259 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12260 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12261 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12262 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12263 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12264 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12265 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12266 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12267 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12268 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12271 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12272 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12273 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12276 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12277 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12278 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12279 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12281 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12282 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12283 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12286 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12287 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12288 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12289 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12291 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12292 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12293 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12294 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12295 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12296 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12297 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12298 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12299 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12302 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12303 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12304 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12305 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12306 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12308 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12309 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12310 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12311 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12312 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12313 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12315 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12316 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12319 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12320 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12321 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12322 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12323 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12324 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12326 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12327 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12328 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12329 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12331 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12332 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12333 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12334 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12335 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12336 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12338 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12339 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12340 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12341 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12342 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12343 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12344 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12347 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12348 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12349 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12350 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12352 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12353 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12354 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12355 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12356 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12357 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12358 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12359 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12360 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12361 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12363 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12364 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12365 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12367 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12368 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12369 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12371 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12372 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12373 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12374 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12375 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12376 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12378 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12379 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12380 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12381 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12382 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12383 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12385 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12386 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12387 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12389 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12390 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12391 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12392 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12393 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12396 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12397 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12398 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12399 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12400 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12401 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12403 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12404 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12405 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12406 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12407 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12408 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12409 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12411 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12412 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12413 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12414 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12415 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12416 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12417 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12418 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12419 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12421 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12422 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12423 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12424 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12425 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12426 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12427 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12428 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12429 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12430 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12431 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12432 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12434 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12435 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12436 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12437 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12438 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12439 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12442 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12443 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12444 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12445 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12446 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12447 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12448 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12449 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12450 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12451 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12452 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12453 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12455 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12456 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12457 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12458 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12459 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12460 Closes ticket 24109.
12461 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12462 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12463 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12464 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12466 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12467 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12469 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12470 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12471 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12472 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12473 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12474 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12475 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12476 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12477 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12478 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12479 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12481 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12482 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12483 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12484 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12486 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12487 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12488 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12490 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12491 function from the general code to handle channel state
12492 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12493 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12494 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12495 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12496 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12497 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12498 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12499 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12501 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12502 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12504 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12505 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12506 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12507 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12508 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12509 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12510 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12511 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12512 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12513 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12514 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12515 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12517 o Deprecated features:
12518 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12519 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12520 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12521 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12522 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12523 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12527 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12528 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12529 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12530 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12531 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12532 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12533 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12534 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12535 Closes ticket 18736.
12536 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12537 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12538 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12539 Closes ticket 15645.
12540 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12541 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12542 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12543 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12545 o Removed features:
12546 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12547 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12548 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12549 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12550 Closes ticket 21031.
12551 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12552 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12555 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12556 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12557 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12558 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12560 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12561 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12562 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12563 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12564 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12565 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12566 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12567 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12568 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12569 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12570 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12572 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12573 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12574 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12575 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12576 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12577 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12578 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12581 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12582 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12583 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12584 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12585 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12587 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12588 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12589 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12590 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12591 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12592 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12593 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12594 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12595 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12597 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12598 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12599 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12600 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12601 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12602 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12605 o Minor features (bridge):
12606 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12607 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12608 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12609 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12612 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12613 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12616 o Minor features (geoip):
12617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12620 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12621 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12622 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12623 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12624 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12626 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12627 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12628 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12630 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12631 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12632 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12633 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12634 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12635 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12637 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12638 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12639 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12642 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12643 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12644 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12645 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12646 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12649 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12650 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12651 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12652 to another of the releases coming out today.
12654 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12655 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12656 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12658 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12659 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12660 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12661 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12662 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12663 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12664 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12665 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12666 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12667 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12668 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12670 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12671 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12672 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12673 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12674 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12675 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12676 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12679 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12680 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12681 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12682 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12683 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12685 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12686 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12687 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12688 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12689 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12690 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12691 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12692 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12693 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12695 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12696 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12697 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12698 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12699 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12700 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12703 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12704 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12705 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12706 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12707 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12708 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12710 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12711 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12712 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12713 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12714 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12717 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12718 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12721 o Minor features (geoip):
12722 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12725 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12726 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12727 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12728 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12729 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12732 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12733 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12735 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12736 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12737 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12738 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12739 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12740 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12742 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12743 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12744 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12745 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12746 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12748 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12749 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12750 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12753 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12754 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12755 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12756 to another of the releases coming out today.
12758 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12759 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12760 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12761 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12762 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12763 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12766 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12767 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12768 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12769 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12770 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12771 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12772 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12773 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12774 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12775 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12776 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12778 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12779 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12780 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12781 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12782 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12783 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12784 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12787 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12788 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12789 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12790 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12791 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12793 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12794 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12795 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12796 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12797 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12798 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12800 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12801 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12802 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12803 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12804 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12807 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12808 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12811 o Minor features (geoip):
12812 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12815 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12816 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12817 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12818 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12819 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12820 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12822 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12823 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12824 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12825 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12826 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12828 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12829 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12830 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12832 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12833 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12834 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12835 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12836 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12837 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12839 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12840 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12841 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12842 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12843 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12845 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12846 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12847 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12850 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12851 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12852 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12853 to another of the releases coming out today.
12855 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12856 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12857 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12859 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12860 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12861 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12862 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12863 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12864 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12865 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12866 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12867 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12868 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12869 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12870 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12871 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12872 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12873 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12876 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12877 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12878 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12879 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12880 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12882 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12883 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12884 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12885 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12886 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12889 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12890 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12891 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12892 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12893 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12896 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12897 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12900 o Minor features (geoip):
12901 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12904 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12905 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12906 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12909 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12910 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12911 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12912 to another of the releases coming out today.
12914 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12915 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12916 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12918 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12919 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12920 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12921 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12922 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12923 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12924 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12925 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12926 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12927 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12928 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12929 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12930 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12931 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12932 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12935 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12936 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12937 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12938 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12939 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12940 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12942 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12943 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12944 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12945 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12946 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12949 o Minor features (geoip):
12950 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12954 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12955 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12956 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12958 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12959 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12960 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12962 o Directory authority changes:
12963 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12964 Closes ticket 23910.
12965 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12966 Closes ticket 23592.
12968 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12969 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12970 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12971 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12972 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12974 o Minor features (geoip):
12975 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12978 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12979 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12980 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12981 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12982 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12983 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12984 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12985 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12986 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12988 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12989 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12990 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12991 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12992 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12993 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12994 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12995 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12996 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12999 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13000 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13001 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13002 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13004 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13005 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13006 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13008 o Directory authority changes:
13009 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13010 Closes ticket 23910.
13011 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13012 Closes ticket 23592.
13014 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13015 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13016 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13017 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13019 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13020 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13021 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13022 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13023 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13025 o Minor features (geoip):
13026 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13030 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13031 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13032 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13033 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13035 o Directory authority changes:
13036 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13037 Closes ticket 23910.
13038 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13039 Closes ticket 23592.
13041 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13042 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13043 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13044 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13046 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13047 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13048 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13049 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13050 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13052 o Minor features (geoip):
13053 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13056 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13057 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13058 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13059 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13060 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13061 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13062 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13063 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13066 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13067 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13068 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13070 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13071 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13072 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13073 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13074 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13075 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13076 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13079 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13080 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13081 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13082 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13084 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13085 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13086 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13088 o Directory authority changes:
13089 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13090 Closes ticket 23910.
13091 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13092 Closes ticket 23592.
13094 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13095 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13096 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13097 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13099 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13100 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13101 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13102 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13103 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13105 o Minor features (geoip):
13106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13109 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13110 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13111 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13112 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13113 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13114 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13115 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13116 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13119 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13120 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13121 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13122 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13124 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13125 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13126 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13128 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13129 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13130 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13131 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13132 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13133 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13134 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13137 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13138 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13139 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13140 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13141 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13143 o Directory authority changes:
13144 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13145 Closes ticket 23910.
13146 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13147 Closes ticket 23592.
13149 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13150 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13151 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13152 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13154 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13155 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13156 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13157 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13158 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13160 o Minor features (geoip):
13161 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13165 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13166 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13167 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13169 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13170 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13171 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13174 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13175 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13176 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13178 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13179 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13180 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13181 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13183 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13184 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13185 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13187 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13188 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13189 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13193 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13194 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13197 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13198 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13199 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13200 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13202 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13203 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13204 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13205 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13207 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13208 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13209 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13210 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13211 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13214 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13217 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13218 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13219 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13222 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13223 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13224 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13225 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13226 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13227 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13228 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13229 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13230 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13232 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13233 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13234 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13235 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13236 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13237 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13238 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13239 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13240 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13243 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13244 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13247 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13248 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13249 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13250 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13252 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13253 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13254 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13255 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13256 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13257 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13258 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13260 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13261 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13262 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13263 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13265 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13266 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13267 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13269 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13270 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13271 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13272 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13274 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13275 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13276 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13277 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13278 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13280 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13281 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13282 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13283 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13285 o Minor features (geoip):
13286 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13289 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13290 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13291 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13292 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13294 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13295 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13296 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13297 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13298 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13299 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13300 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13301 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13304 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13305 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13308 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13309 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13312 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13313 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13314 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13315 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13316 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13318 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13319 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13320 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13321 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13322 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13323 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13325 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13326 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13327 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13328 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13329 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13330 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13331 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13332 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13333 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13335 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13336 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13337 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13338 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13340 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13341 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13342 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13344 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13345 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13346 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13347 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13348 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13350 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13351 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13352 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13355 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13356 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13357 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13358 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13359 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13361 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13362 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13363 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13364 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13365 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13366 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13367 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13368 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13369 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13372 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13373 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13376 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13377 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13378 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13379 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13381 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13382 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13383 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13384 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13390 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13391 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13392 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13394 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13395 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13396 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13397 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13398 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13400 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13401 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13402 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13403 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13405 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13406 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13407 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13409 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13410 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13411 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13412 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13415 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13416 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13418 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13419 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13420 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13421 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13422 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13423 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13424 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13426 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13427 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13428 disabled. For more information, see
13429 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13431 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13432 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13433 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13434 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13435 with the 0.2.9 series.
13437 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13438 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13440 o New dependencies:
13441 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13442 pkg-config tool at build time.
13444 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13445 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13446 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13447 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13448 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13450 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13451 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13452 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13453 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13454 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13455 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13456 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13457 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13458 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13460 o Major features (directory protocol):
13461 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13462 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13463 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13464 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13465 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13466 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13467 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13468 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13469 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13470 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13471 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13472 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13473 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13474 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13475 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13476 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13477 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13479 o Major features (experimental):
13480 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13481 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13482 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13483 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13484 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13485 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13486 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13488 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13489 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13490 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13491 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13492 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13493 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13496 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13497 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13498 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13499 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13500 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13501 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13502 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13503 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13504 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13505 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13506 multiples of 10000.
13508 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13509 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13510 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13511 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13512 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13513 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13514 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13517 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13518 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13519 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13520 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13521 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13522 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13524 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13525 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13526 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13527 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13528 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13529 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13530 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13531 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13532 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13533 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13534 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13535 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13536 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13537 Otherwise it is at info.
13539 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13540 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13541 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13542 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13543 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13544 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13545 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13547 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13548 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13549 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13550 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13552 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13553 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13554 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13555 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13556 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13558 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13559 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13560 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13561 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13562 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13563 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13564 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13567 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13568 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13569 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13570 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13571 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13572 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13573 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13574 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13575 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13576 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13577 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13578 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13579 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13582 o Minor features (security, windows):
13583 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13584 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13585 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13586 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13587 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13589 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13590 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13591 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13593 o Minor features (code style):
13594 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13595 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13596 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13598 o Minor features (config options):
13599 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13600 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13601 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13602 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13603 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13604 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13605 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13606 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13608 o Minor features (controller):
13609 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13610 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13612 o Minor features (defaults):
13613 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13614 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13615 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13616 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13617 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13618 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13619 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13620 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13621 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13622 Closes ticket 21641.
13624 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13625 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13626 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13627 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13630 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13631 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13632 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13633 attempt for bug 23105.
13634 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13635 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13636 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13637 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13638 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13639 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13640 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13642 o Minor features (directory authority):
13643 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13644 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13645 Closes ticket 22348.
13647 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13648 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13649 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13650 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13651 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13654 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13655 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13656 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13657 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13658 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13659 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13660 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13662 o Minor features (geoip):
13663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13666 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13667 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13668 introduction points than specified in
13669 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13670 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13671 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13672 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13673 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13674 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13675 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13676 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13678 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13679 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13680 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13681 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13682 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13683 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13684 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13685 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13686 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13687 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13689 o Minor features (logging):
13690 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13691 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13692 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13693 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13696 o Minor features (performance):
13697 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13698 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13700 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13701 speed some controller functions.
13703 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13704 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13705 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13706 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13708 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13709 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13710 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13711 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13712 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13713 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13716 o Minor features (safety):
13717 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13718 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13719 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13722 o Minor features (testing):
13723 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13725 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13726 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13727 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13728 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13729 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13730 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13731 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13732 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13733 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13734 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13735 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13736 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13737 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13738 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13739 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13740 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13742 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13743 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13744 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13745 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13747 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13748 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13749 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13750 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13753 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13754 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13755 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13756 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13757 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13758 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13759 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13760 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13763 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13764 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13765 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13767 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13768 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13769 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13770 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13771 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13772 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13774 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13775 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13776 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13778 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13779 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13780 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13781 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13782 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13783 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13784 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13785 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13786 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13787 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13788 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13789 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13790 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13791 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13793 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13794 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13795 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13796 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13797 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13798 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13799 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13800 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13801 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13802 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13803 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13804 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13806 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13807 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13808 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13810 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13811 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13812 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13813 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13814 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13815 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13817 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13818 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13819 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13820 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13821 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13822 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13823 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13824 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13825 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13826 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13827 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13828 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13830 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13831 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13832 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13833 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13834 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13835 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13836 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13837 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13839 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13840 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13841 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13842 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13843 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13844 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13846 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13847 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13848 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13851 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13852 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13853 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13854 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13855 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13857 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13858 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13859 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13860 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13861 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13862 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13863 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13864 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13865 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13866 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13867 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13869 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13870 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13871 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13872 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13874 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13875 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13876 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13877 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13878 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13879 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13880 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13881 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13882 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13883 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13884 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13885 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13886 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13887 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13889 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13890 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13891 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13892 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13893 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13894 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13895 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13897 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13898 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13899 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13900 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13901 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13902 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13903 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13905 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13906 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13907 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13908 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13909 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13910 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13911 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13912 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13913 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13914 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13915 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13916 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13917 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13919 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13920 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13921 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13922 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13924 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13925 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13926 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13928 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13929 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13930 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13931 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13933 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13934 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13935 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13936 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13938 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13939 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13940 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13941 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13942 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13943 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13944 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13945 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13946 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13948 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13949 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13950 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13951 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13952 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13953 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13954 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13957 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13958 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13959 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13960 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13961 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13962 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13964 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13965 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13966 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13967 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13968 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13969 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13970 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13971 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13972 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13973 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13974 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13975 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13976 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13977 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13978 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13979 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13982 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13983 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13984 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13985 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13986 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13988 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13989 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13990 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13991 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13992 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13993 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13994 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13996 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
13997 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
13998 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14000 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14001 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14002 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14003 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14004 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14005 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14006 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14007 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14008 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14009 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14010 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14011 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14013 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14014 Resolves ticket 22213.
14015 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14016 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14017 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14018 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14019 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14020 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14021 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14022 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14025 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14027 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14028 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14030 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14031 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14032 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14034 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14036 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14037 Closes ticket 21873.
14038 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14039 Closes ticket 21151.
14040 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14041 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14043 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14044 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14045 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14046 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14048 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14049 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14050 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14051 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14052 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14053 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14054 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14055 default behavior is now unavailable.
14056 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14057 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14058 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14059 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14060 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14061 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14062 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14064 o Removed features (tools):
14065 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14066 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14067 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14068 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14069 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14072 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14073 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14074 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14075 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14077 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14078 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14079 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14080 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14081 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14082 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14083 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14084 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14085 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14087 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14088 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14089 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14090 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14092 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14093 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14094 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14095 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14096 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14098 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14099 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14102 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14103 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14104 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14105 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14107 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14108 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14109 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14110 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14111 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14112 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14113 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14114 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14117 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14118 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14119 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14122 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14123 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14124 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14125 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14126 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14127 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14129 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14130 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14131 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14132 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14134 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14135 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14136 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14138 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14139 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14140 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14143 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14144 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14145 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14146 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14147 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14150 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14153 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14154 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14155 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14156 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14157 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14158 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14160 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14161 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14162 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14163 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14165 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14166 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14167 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14168 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14170 o Minor features (geoip):
14171 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14174 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14175 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14176 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14177 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14178 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14180 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14181 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14182 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14183 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14184 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14186 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14187 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14188 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14189 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14190 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14191 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14192 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14193 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14194 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14197 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14198 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14199 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14200 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14201 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14203 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14204 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14205 bugfixes described below.
14207 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14208 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14209 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14210 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14211 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14212 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14213 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14214 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14217 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14218 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14219 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14220 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14221 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14222 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14223 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14226 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14227 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14228 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14229 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14230 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14231 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14232 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14233 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14234 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14235 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14236 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14237 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14238 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14241 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14242 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14243 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14246 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14247 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14248 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14249 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14250 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14252 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14253 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14254 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14256 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14257 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14258 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14260 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14261 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14262 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14263 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14264 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14265 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14266 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14268 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14270 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14271 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14272 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14275 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14276 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14277 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14278 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14279 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14280 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14282 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14283 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14284 bugfixes described below.
14286 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14287 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14288 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14289 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14290 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14293 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14294 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14295 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14296 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14297 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14298 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14299 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14302 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14303 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14304 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14305 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14306 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14308 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14309 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14310 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14311 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14312 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14313 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14314 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14316 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14317 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14318 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14319 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14320 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14322 o Minor features (geoip):
14323 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14326 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14327 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14328 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14329 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14331 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14332 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14333 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14335 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14336 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14337 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14338 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14339 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14342 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14343 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14344 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14345 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14346 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14348 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14349 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14350 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14351 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14352 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14353 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14355 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14356 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14357 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14358 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14361 o Minor features (geoip):
14362 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14365 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14366 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14367 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14368 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14369 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14371 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14372 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14373 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14375 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14376 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14377 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14378 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14379 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14380 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14382 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14383 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14384 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14385 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14388 o Minor features (geoip):
14389 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14392 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14393 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14394 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14397 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14398 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14399 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14400 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14401 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14402 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14404 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14405 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14406 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14407 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14410 o Minor features (geoip):
14411 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14414 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14415 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14416 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14418 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14419 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14420 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14421 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14422 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14423 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14425 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14426 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14427 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14428 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14431 o Minor features (geoip):
14432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14435 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14436 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14437 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14439 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14440 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14441 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14442 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14443 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14444 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14446 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14447 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14448 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14449 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14452 o Minor features (geoip):
14453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14456 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14457 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14458 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14461 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14462 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14463 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14464 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14465 clients are not affected.
14467 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14468 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14469 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14470 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14471 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14472 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14475 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14478 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14479 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14480 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14481 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14482 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14483 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14484 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14486 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14487 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14488 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14489 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14490 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14494 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14495 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14497 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14498 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14499 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14500 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14501 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14502 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14505 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14506 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14508 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14509 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14510 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14511 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14512 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14514 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14515 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14517 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14518 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14519 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14520 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14522 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14523 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14524 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14525 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14526 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14529 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14530 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14531 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14532 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14533 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14534 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14535 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14536 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14539 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14540 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14541 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14542 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14543 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14544 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14545 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14546 15056; part of proposal 220.
14547 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14548 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14549 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14550 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14551 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14552 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14553 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14554 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14555 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14558 o Major features (security):
14559 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14560 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14561 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14562 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14563 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14564 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14566 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14567 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14568 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14569 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14570 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14571 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14572 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14573 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14574 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14575 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14576 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14578 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14579 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14580 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14581 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14583 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14584 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14585 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14586 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14589 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14590 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14591 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14593 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14594 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14595 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14596 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14597 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14598 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14599 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14601 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14602 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14603 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14604 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14605 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14606 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14607 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14608 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14609 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14610 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14611 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14612 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14613 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14614 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14615 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14617 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14618 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14619 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14620 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14621 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14623 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14624 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14625 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14626 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14627 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14628 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14629 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14631 o Minor feature (client):
14632 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14633 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14635 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14636 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14637 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14638 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14640 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14641 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14642 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14644 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14645 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14646 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14647 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14648 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14650 o Minor features (controller):
14651 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14652 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14653 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14654 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14657 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14658 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14659 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14660 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14661 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14662 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14663 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14664 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14665 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14666 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14668 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14669 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14670 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14673 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14674 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14675 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14677 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14678 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14679 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14681 o Minor features (directory authority):
14682 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14683 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14684 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14685 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14686 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14688 o Minor features (directory cache):
14689 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14690 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14693 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14694 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14695 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14696 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14698 o Minor features (entry guards):
14699 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14700 break regression tests.
14701 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14702 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14704 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14705 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14706 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14707 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14708 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14709 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14710 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14711 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14712 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14713 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14714 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14715 Closes ticket 20539.
14716 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14717 Closes ticket 20822.
14718 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14720 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14721 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14722 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14723 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14724 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14726 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14727 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14728 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14729 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14730 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14733 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14734 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14735 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14736 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14738 o Minor features (geoip):
14739 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14742 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14746 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14747 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14748 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14750 o Minor features (linting):
14751 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14752 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14754 o Minor features (logging):
14755 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14756 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14758 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14759 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14760 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14762 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14763 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14765 o Minor features (relay):
14766 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14767 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14768 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14769 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14771 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14772 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14773 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14776 o Minor features (testing):
14777 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14778 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14779 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14781 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14782 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14783 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14784 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14785 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14786 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14787 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14788 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14789 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14791 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14792 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14793 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14794 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14795 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14798 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14799 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14800 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14801 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14803 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14804 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14805 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14808 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14809 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14810 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14812 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14813 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14814 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14815 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14816 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14817 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14818 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14820 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14821 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14822 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14824 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14825 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14826 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14827 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14828 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14830 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14831 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14832 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14833 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14834 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14835 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14837 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14838 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14839 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14840 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14841 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14842 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14843 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14846 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14847 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14848 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14849 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14850 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14852 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14853 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14854 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14855 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14857 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14858 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14859 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14860 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14861 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14863 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14864 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14865 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14866 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14867 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14869 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14870 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14871 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14872 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14873 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14874 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14875 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14878 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14879 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14880 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14881 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14882 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14883 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14884 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14885 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14886 on all recent tor versions.
14888 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14889 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14890 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14892 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14893 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14894 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14896 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14897 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14898 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14899 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14900 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14901 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14902 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14903 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14904 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14906 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14907 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14908 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14909 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14910 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14911 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14912 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14913 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14914 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14915 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14916 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14919 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14920 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14921 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14922 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14923 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14924 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14925 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14926 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14927 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14928 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14929 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14932 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14933 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14934 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14935 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14936 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14937 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14938 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14939 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14941 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14942 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14943 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14946 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14947 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14948 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14950 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14951 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14952 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14953 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14956 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14957 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14958 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14959 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14961 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14962 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14964 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14965 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14966 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14968 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14969 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14970 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14971 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14973 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14974 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14975 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
14976 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14977 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14978 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14979 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14980 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14982 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14983 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14984 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14985 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14986 Patch by "junglefowl".
14988 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14989 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14990 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14991 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14992 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14994 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14995 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
14996 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
14997 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
14998 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15000 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15001 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15002 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15005 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15006 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15007 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15008 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15010 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15011 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15012 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15013 Closes ticket 19858.
15014 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15015 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15016 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15017 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15018 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15019 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15020 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15021 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15022 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15023 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15024 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15025 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15026 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15027 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15028 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15029 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15030 channel abstraction.
15031 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15032 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15033 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15034 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15035 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15036 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15039 o Documentation (formatting):
15040 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15041 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15043 o Documentation (man page):
15044 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15045 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15048 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15049 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15051 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15052 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15053 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15055 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15056 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15057 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15058 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15059 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15060 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15061 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15062 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15063 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15064 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15066 o Removed features:
15067 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15068 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15069 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15071 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15072 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15073 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15076 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15077 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15078 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15080 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15081 from "overcaffeinated".
15082 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15083 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15086 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15087 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15088 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15089 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15090 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15093 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15094 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15095 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15097 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15098 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15099 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15100 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15101 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15102 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15103 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15105 o Minor features (geoip):
15106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15110 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15111 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15112 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15113 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15116 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15117 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15118 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15120 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15121 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15123 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15124 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15125 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15127 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15128 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15129 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15132 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15133 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15134 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15135 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15136 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15137 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15138 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15139 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15140 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15142 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15143 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15144 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15145 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15146 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15147 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15148 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15149 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15150 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15151 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15152 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15153 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15154 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15156 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15157 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15158 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15159 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15160 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15162 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15163 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15164 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15166 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15167 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15168 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15169 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15170 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15171 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15172 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15175 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15176 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15177 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15178 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15179 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15180 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15181 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15183 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15184 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15185 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15186 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15189 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15190 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15191 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15192 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15194 o Minor features (geoip):
15195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15199 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15200 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15201 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15202 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15205 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15206 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15207 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15209 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15210 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15212 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15213 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15214 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15216 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15217 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15218 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15221 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15222 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15223 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15224 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15225 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15226 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15227 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15228 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15229 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15231 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15232 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15233 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15234 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15235 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15236 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15237 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15238 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15239 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15241 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15242 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15243 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15244 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15245 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15247 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15248 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15249 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15250 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15251 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15254 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15255 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15256 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15257 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15258 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15260 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15261 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15262 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15264 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15265 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15266 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15267 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15268 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15269 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15272 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15273 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15274 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15275 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15276 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15277 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15278 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15281 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15282 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15283 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15284 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15285 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15286 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15287 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15289 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15290 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15291 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15292 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15295 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15296 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15297 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15298 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15300 o Minor features (geoip):
15301 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15304 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15305 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15306 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15309 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15310 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15311 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15312 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15315 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15316 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15317 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15319 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15320 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15322 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15323 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15324 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15326 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15327 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15328 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15331 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15332 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15333 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15334 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15335 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15336 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15337 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15338 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15339 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15341 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15342 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15343 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15344 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15345 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15346 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15347 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15348 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15349 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15351 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15352 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15353 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15354 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15355 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15357 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15358 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15359 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15360 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15361 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15364 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15365 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15366 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15367 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15368 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15370 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15371 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15372 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15374 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15375 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15376 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15377 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15378 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15379 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15382 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15383 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15384 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15385 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15386 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15387 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15388 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15391 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15392 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15393 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15394 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15395 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15396 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15397 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15399 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15400 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15401 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15402 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15405 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15406 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15407 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15408 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15410 o Minor features (geoip):
15411 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15414 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15415 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15416 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15418 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15419 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15420 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15421 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15422 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15423 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15425 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15426 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15427 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15431 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15432 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15433 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15434 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15437 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15438 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15439 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15441 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15442 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15444 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15445 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15446 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15448 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15449 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15450 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15453 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15454 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15455 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15456 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15457 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15458 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15459 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15460 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15461 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15463 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15464 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15465 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15466 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15467 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15468 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15469 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15470 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15471 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15473 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15474 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15475 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15476 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15477 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15480 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15481 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15482 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15483 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15484 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15486 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15487 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15488 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15490 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15491 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15492 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15493 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15494 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15495 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15498 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15499 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15500 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15501 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15502 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15503 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15504 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15507 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15508 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15509 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15510 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15511 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15512 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15513 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15515 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15516 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15517 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15518 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15521 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15522 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15523 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15524 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15526 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15527 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15528 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15529 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15531 o Minor features (geoip):
15532 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15535 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15536 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15537 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15539 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15540 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15541 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15545 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15546 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15547 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15548 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15550 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15551 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15552 least January of 2020.
15554 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15555 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15556 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15557 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15560 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15561 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15562 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15563 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15564 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15565 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15566 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15568 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15569 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15570 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15571 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15572 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15573 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15574 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15576 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15577 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15578 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15580 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15581 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15582 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15584 o Minor features (geoip):
15585 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15588 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15589 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15590 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15592 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15593 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15595 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15596 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15597 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15599 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15600 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15601 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15602 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15603 Patch by "junglefowl".
15606 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15607 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15608 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15609 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15610 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15611 version should upgrade.
15613 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15614 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15616 o Major bugfixes (security):
15617 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15618 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15619 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15620 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15621 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15622 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15624 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15625 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15626 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15627 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15628 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15629 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15630 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15631 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15632 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15633 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15634 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15636 o Minor features (geoip):
15637 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15640 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15641 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15642 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15643 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15645 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15646 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15649 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15650 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15651 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15652 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15653 become available for their systems.
15655 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15658 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15659 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15661 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15662 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15663 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15664 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15665 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15666 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15667 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15668 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15669 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15671 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15672 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15673 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15674 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15675 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15677 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15682 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15683 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15685 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15686 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15687 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15688 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15689 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15690 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15691 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15692 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15694 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15696 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15697 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15698 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15699 become available for their systems.
15701 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15702 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15704 o New system requirements:
15705 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15706 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15707 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15708 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15709 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15710 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15711 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15712 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15713 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15714 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15715 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15717 o Deprecated features:
15718 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15719 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15720 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15721 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15722 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15723 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15724 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15725 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15726 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15727 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15728 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15729 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15730 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15731 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15732 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15733 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15734 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15735 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15736 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15737 and TransListenAddress.
15739 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15740 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15741 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15742 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15743 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15744 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15745 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15746 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15747 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15749 o Major features (build, hardening):
15750 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15751 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15752 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15753 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15754 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15755 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15756 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15757 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15758 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15760 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15761 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15762 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15763 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15765 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15766 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15768 o Major features (compilation):
15769 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15770 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15771 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15772 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15774 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15775 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15776 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15778 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15779 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15780 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15781 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15782 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15783 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15784 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15785 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15787 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15788 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15789 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15790 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15791 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15792 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15793 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15795 o Major features (resource management):
15796 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15797 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15798 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15799 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15800 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15801 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15803 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15804 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15805 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15806 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15807 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15808 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15809 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15810 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15811 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15812 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15813 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15815 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15816 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15817 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15818 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15819 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15820 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15821 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15822 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15823 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15824 part of proposal 264.
15826 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15827 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15828 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15829 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15831 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15832 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15833 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15834 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15835 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15836 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15837 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15838 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15839 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15841 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15842 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15843 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15845 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15846 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15847 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15848 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15849 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15850 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15851 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15853 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15854 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15855 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15856 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15857 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15858 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15859 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15860 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15861 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15862 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15864 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15865 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15866 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15867 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15868 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15869 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15871 o Minor features (port flags):
15872 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15873 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15874 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15875 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15876 18693; patch by "teor".
15878 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15879 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15880 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15881 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15882 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15883 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15884 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15885 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15886 Closes ticket 18895.
15888 o Minor features (client, directory):
15889 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15890 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15891 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15894 o Minor features (code safety):
15895 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15896 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15897 patch from "U+039b".
15899 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15900 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15903 o Minor features (config):
15904 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15905 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15907 o Minor features (controller):
15908 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15909 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15910 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15911 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15912 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15913 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15914 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15915 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15917 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15918 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15919 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15922 o Minor features (directory authority):
15923 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15924 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15925 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15926 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15927 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15928 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15929 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15930 Implements ticket 18624.
15931 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15932 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15933 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15936 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15937 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15938 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15939 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15940 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15942 o Minor features (hidden service):
15943 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15944 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15945 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15948 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15949 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15950 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15951 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15952 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15953 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15954 Closes ticket 18365.
15955 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15956 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15957 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15958 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15960 o Minor features (logging):
15961 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15962 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15963 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15964 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15965 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15966 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15967 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15968 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15969 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15970 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15972 o Minor features (performance):
15973 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15974 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15975 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15976 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15977 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15978 Closes ticket 18815.
15980 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15981 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15982 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15983 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15984 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15987 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15988 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
15989 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15990 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15991 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15993 o Minor features (testing):
15994 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15995 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
15996 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
15997 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
15998 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
15999 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16000 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16001 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16002 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16003 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16005 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16006 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16007 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16008 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16009 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16010 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16011 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16013 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16014 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16015 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16016 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16017 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16018 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16019 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16020 assertion as a test failure.
16021 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16023 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16024 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16025 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16026 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16027 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16028 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16029 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16030 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16031 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16033 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16034 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16035 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16036 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16038 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16039 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16040 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16041 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16042 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16044 o Minor features (user interface):
16045 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16046 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16047 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16048 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16051 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16052 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16053 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16054 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16057 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16058 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16059 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16060 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16061 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16062 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16064 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16065 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16066 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16067 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16069 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16070 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16071 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16072 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16073 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16075 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16076 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16077 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16078 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16079 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16081 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16082 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16083 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16084 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16085 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16087 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16088 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16089 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16091 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16092 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16093 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16095 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16096 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16097 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16100 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16101 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16102 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16104 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16105 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16106 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16108 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16109 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16110 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16111 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16112 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16113 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16114 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16115 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16117 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16118 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16119 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16120 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16122 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16123 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16124 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16125 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16126 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16127 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16128 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16129 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16130 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16131 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16133 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16134 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16135 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16136 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16138 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16139 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16140 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16141 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16144 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16145 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16146 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16147 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16149 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16150 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16153 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16154 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16155 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16156 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16158 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16159 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16161 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16162 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16163 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16164 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16165 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16167 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16168 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16169 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16171 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16172 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16173 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16175 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16176 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16177 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16178 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16179 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16180 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16182 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16183 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16184 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16186 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16187 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16188 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16189 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16190 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16191 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16192 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16194 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16195 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16196 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16197 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16198 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16199 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16200 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16201 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16202 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16203 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16204 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16205 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16206 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16207 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16208 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16211 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16212 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16213 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16214 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16215 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16216 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16218 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16219 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16220 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16222 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16223 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16224 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16227 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16228 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16229 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16230 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16231 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16232 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16234 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16235 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16236 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16237 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16238 patch from "cypherpunks".
16239 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16240 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16241 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16242 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16243 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16244 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16245 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16246 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16247 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16248 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16249 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16251 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16252 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16254 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16255 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16256 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16257 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16258 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16261 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16262 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16263 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16264 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16265 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16266 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16267 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16269 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16270 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16271 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16272 19678. Patch by teor.
16274 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16275 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16276 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16277 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16278 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16280 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16281 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16283 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16284 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16286 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16287 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16288 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16289 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16292 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16293 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16294 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16295 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16296 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16297 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16298 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16299 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16300 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16301 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16302 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16303 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16304 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16305 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16306 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16307 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16308 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16309 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16311 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16312 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16313 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16314 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16317 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16318 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16320 o Removed features:
16321 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16322 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16323 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16324 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16325 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16326 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16327 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16330 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16331 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16332 command-line options to enable them.
16333 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16334 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16337 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16338 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16339 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16340 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16343 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16344 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16345 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16346 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16347 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16348 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16351 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16352 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16353 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16356 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16357 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16358 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16359 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16361 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16362 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16363 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16364 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16367 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16368 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16369 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16370 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16373 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16374 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16375 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16378 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16379 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16380 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16382 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16383 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16384 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16386 o Minor features (geoip):
16387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16391 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16392 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16393 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16394 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16395 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16398 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16399 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16400 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16401 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16402 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16403 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16404 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16405 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16406 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16408 o Minor features (geoip):
16409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16413 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16414 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16415 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16416 who select public relays as their bridges.
16418 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16419 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16420 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16421 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16422 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16423 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16425 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16426 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16427 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16428 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16429 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16432 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16433 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16434 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16436 o Minor features (geoip):
16437 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16441 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16442 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16443 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16444 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16445 encouraged to upgrade.
16447 o Directory authority changes:
16448 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16449 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16451 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16452 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16453 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16454 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16455 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16456 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16458 o Minor features (geoip):
16459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16462 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16463 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16464 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16467 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16468 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16469 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16470 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16473 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16475 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16477 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16478 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16479 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16480 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16481 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16482 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16484 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16486 o New system requirements:
16487 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16488 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16489 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16491 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16492 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16493 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16494 longer runs with, these versions.
16495 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16496 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16497 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16498 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16499 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16501 o Directory authority changes:
16502 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16503 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16505 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16507 o Major features (directory system):
16508 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16509 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16510 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16511 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16512 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16513 gsathya, and karsten.
16514 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16515 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16516 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16517 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16518 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16520 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16521 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16522 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16523 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16524 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16525 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16526 mikeperry and teor.
16528 o Major features (security, Linux):
16529 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16530 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16531 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16532 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16533 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16535 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16536 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16537 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16538 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16539 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16540 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16541 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16543 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16544 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16547 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16548 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16549 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16551 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16552 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16553 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16554 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16555 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16557 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16558 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16559 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16560 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16561 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16562 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16563 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16564 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16565 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16566 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16568 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16569 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16570 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16571 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16572 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16573 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16574 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16577 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16578 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16579 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16580 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16581 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16583 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16584 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16585 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16586 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16587 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16588 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16589 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16590 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16591 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16593 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16594 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16595 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16596 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16597 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16599 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16600 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16601 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16603 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16604 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16605 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16606 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16608 o Minor features (accounting):
16609 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16610 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16611 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16612 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16614 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16615 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16616 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16617 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16618 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16619 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16620 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16623 o Minor features (build):
16624 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16625 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16626 Steven Chamberlain.
16627 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16628 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16629 patch from "cypherpunks".
16630 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16631 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16632 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16633 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16634 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16635 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16636 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16637 Patch from intrigeri.
16639 o Minor features (clients):
16640 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16641 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16642 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16644 o Minor features (controller):
16645 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16646 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16647 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16649 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16650 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16651 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16652 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16653 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16655 o Minor features (crypto):
16656 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16657 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16659 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16660 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16661 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16662 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16663 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16665 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16666 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16667 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16668 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16670 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16671 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16672 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16673 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16674 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16675 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16676 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16677 17864; patch by teor.
16679 o Minor features (geoip):
16680 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16683 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16684 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16685 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16686 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16687 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16689 o Minor features (IPv6):
16690 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16691 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16692 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16693 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16694 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16695 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16696 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16697 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16698 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16699 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16700 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16701 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16703 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16704 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16705 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16706 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16707 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16708 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16709 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16710 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16711 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16712 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16714 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16715 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16716 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16717 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16718 while fixing 18548.
16720 o Minor features (logging):
16721 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16722 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16723 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16724 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16727 o Minor features (portability):
16728 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16729 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16731 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16732 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16733 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16734 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16735 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16737 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16738 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16739 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16740 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16741 Resolves ticket 17951.
16743 o Minor features (replay cache):
16744 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16745 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16747 o Minor features (robustness):
16748 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16749 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16750 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16752 o Minor features (security, clock):
16753 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16754 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16755 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16756 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16758 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16759 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16760 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16761 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16762 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16763 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16765 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16766 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16767 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16768 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16770 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16771 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16772 Implements ticket 17026.
16773 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16774 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16775 Implements feature 17986.
16776 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16777 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16778 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16780 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16781 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16782 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16783 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16784 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16785 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16786 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16787 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16788 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16789 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16790 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16793 o Minor features (security, win32):
16794 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16795 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16798 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16799 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16800 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16801 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16802 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16803 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16804 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16807 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16808 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16809 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16810 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16811 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16812 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16813 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16814 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16815 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16816 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16817 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16818 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16819 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16820 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16822 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16823 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16824 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16825 from "unixninja92".
16827 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16828 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16829 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16832 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16833 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16834 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16836 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16837 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16838 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16839 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16840 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16841 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16843 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16844 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16846 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16847 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16848 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16849 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16850 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16852 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16853 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16854 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16855 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16856 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16857 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16859 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16860 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16861 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16862 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16863 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16864 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16865 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16866 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16867 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16868 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16869 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16871 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16872 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16875 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16876 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16877 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16878 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16879 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16881 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16882 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16883 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16884 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16885 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16886 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16887 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16888 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16890 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16892 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16893 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16894 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16896 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16897 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16898 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16900 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16901 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16902 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16904 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16905 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16906 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16907 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16909 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16910 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16911 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16912 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16913 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16915 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16916 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16917 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16919 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16920 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16921 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16922 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16923 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16924 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16925 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16926 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16927 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16929 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16930 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16931 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16932 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16935 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16936 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16937 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16938 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16939 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16941 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16942 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16943 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16944 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16945 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16946 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16947 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16948 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16950 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16951 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16952 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16953 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16954 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16955 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16956 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16957 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16958 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16961 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16962 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16963 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16964 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16966 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16967 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16968 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16970 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16971 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16972 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16974 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16975 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16976 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16977 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16978 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16979 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16980 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16981 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16982 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16983 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16984 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16985 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16986 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16987 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16988 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16989 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16990 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16991 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16992 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16994 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16995 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
16996 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
16997 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
16998 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17000 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17001 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17002 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17003 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17004 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17005 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17006 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17007 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17008 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17009 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17010 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17011 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17014 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17015 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17016 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17017 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17019 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17020 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17021 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17024 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17025 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17026 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17027 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17029 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17030 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17031 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17032 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17033 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17034 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17037 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17038 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17039 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17040 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17042 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17043 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17044 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17045 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17046 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17047 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17048 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17049 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17050 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17052 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17053 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17054 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17055 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17056 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17058 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17059 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17060 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17061 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17063 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17064 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17065 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17066 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17067 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17068 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17069 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17070 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17072 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17073 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17075 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17076 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17077 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17080 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17081 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17082 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17083 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17085 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17086 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17087 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17088 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17089 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17090 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17091 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17092 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17093 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17094 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17095 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17096 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17097 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17098 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17099 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17100 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17102 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17103 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17104 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17105 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17106 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17107 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17108 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17110 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17111 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17112 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17113 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17115 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17116 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17117 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17119 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17120 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17121 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17122 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17124 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17125 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17126 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17127 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17128 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17129 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17130 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17131 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17132 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17133 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17134 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17135 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17136 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17137 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17138 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17139 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17140 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17141 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17142 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17143 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17144 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17145 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17149 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17150 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17151 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17152 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17153 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17154 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17155 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17156 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17157 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17158 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17159 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17160 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17162 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17163 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17165 o Removed features:
17166 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17167 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17168 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17169 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17170 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17171 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17172 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17173 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17176 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17177 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17178 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17179 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17180 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17181 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17182 portion of ticket 16831.
17183 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17185 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17186 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17187 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17188 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17189 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17191 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17192 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17193 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17194 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17197 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17198 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17199 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17201 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17202 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17203 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17204 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17205 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17206 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17209 o Minor features (geoip):
17210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17213 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17214 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17215 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17216 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17217 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17218 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17220 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17221 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17222 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17223 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17224 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17225 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17226 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17227 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17228 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17229 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17232 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17233 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17234 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17235 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17236 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17237 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17238 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17239 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17240 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17241 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17242 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17243 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17244 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17245 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17246 that would make him proud.
17248 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17250 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17251 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17252 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17253 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17254 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17255 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17256 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17258 o New system requirements:
17259 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17260 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17262 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17263 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17264 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17265 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17266 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17267 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17268 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17269 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17270 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17271 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17272 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17273 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17274 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17276 o Major features (controller):
17277 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17278 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17280 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17281 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17282 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17283 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17284 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17285 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17286 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17288 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17289 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17290 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17291 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17292 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17293 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17294 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17295 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17296 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17297 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17298 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17299 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17300 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17301 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17302 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17303 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17304 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17305 part of ticket 12498.
17306 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17307 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17309 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17310 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17311 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17312 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17313 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17314 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17315 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17316 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17317 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17320 o Major features (ECC performance):
17321 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17322 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17324 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17325 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17326 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17327 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17328 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17329 Implements ticket 16467.
17330 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17331 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17332 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17333 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17335 o Major features (Hidden services):
17336 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17337 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17338 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17339 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17340 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17341 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17342 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17343 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17344 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17345 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17346 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17347 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17349 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17350 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17351 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17352 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17354 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17355 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17356 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17357 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17358 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17359 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17361 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17362 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17363 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17364 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17365 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17366 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17368 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17369 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17370 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17371 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17372 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17373 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17374 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17375 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17378 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17379 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17380 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17381 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17383 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17384 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17385 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17386 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17387 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17388 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17391 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17392 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17393 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17395 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17396 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17397 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17398 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17399 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17400 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17402 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17403 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17404 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17405 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17406 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17409 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17410 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17411 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17412 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17413 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17414 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17415 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17416 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17419 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17420 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17421 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17422 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17424 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17425 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17426 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17427 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17428 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17429 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17430 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17433 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17434 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17435 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17436 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17437 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17438 own. Implements feature 15482.
17439 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17440 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17442 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17443 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17444 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17445 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17446 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17448 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17449 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17450 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17451 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17452 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17454 o Minor features (compilation):
17455 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17456 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17457 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17458 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17459 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17461 o Minor features (control protocol):
17462 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17463 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17465 o Minor features (controller):
17466 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17467 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17468 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17469 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17470 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17471 Closes ticket 14845.
17472 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17473 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17474 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17476 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17477 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17478 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17479 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17480 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17481 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17483 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17484 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17485 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17486 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17487 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17488 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17489 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17491 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17492 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17493 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17494 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17496 o Minor features (geoip):
17497 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17500 o Minor features (hidden services):
17501 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17502 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17503 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17504 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17506 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17507 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17508 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17510 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17511 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17512 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17513 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17514 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17515 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17516 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17517 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17519 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17520 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17521 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17522 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17523 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17524 Closes ticket 15745.
17526 o Minor features (logging):
17527 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17528 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17531 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17532 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17533 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17534 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17536 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17537 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17538 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17539 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17540 Resolves ticket 15435.
17542 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17543 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17544 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17545 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17546 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17547 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17548 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17549 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17550 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17551 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17552 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17553 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17554 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17555 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17556 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17557 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17558 Related to ticket 16069.
17560 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17561 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17562 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17564 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17565 stderr, not stdout.
17566 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17567 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17568 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17571 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17572 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17573 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17574 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17575 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17577 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17578 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17579 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17580 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17582 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17583 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17584 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17585 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17586 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17587 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17588 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17589 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17591 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17592 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17593 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17594 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17596 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17597 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17598 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17600 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17601 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17602 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17604 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17605 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17606 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17607 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17609 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17610 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17611 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17612 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17613 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17614 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17616 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17617 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17618 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17620 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17621 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17623 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17624 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17625 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17626 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17627 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17628 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17629 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17630 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17632 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17633 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17634 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17635 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17637 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17638 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17639 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17641 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17642 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17643 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17646 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17647 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17648 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17649 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17650 recent enough Clang.
17652 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17653 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17654 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17655 unsuitable for public communications.
17657 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17658 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17659 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17660 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17662 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17663 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17664 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17665 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17666 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17668 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17669 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17671 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17672 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17673 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17674 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17675 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17677 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17678 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17679 from "cypherpunks".
17680 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17681 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17684 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17685 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17686 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17687 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17688 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17690 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17691 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17692 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17693 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17694 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17695 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17697 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17698 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17699 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17700 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17702 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17703 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17704 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17705 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17706 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17707 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17708 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17709 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17711 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17712 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17713 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17715 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17716 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17717 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17718 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17719 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17720 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17721 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17722 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17723 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17724 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17725 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17726 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17727 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17729 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17730 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17731 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17732 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17733 haven't supported that in ages.
17734 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17735 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17736 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17737 suite of other microdesc functions.
17738 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17739 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17740 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17741 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17742 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17743 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17744 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17745 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17746 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17747 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17748 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17749 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17750 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17751 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17752 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17753 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17755 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17756 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17760 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17761 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17762 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17764 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17765 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17766 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17767 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17768 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17769 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17770 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17771 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17772 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17773 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17775 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17777 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17778 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17779 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17780 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17781 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17782 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17783 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17784 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17785 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17786 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17787 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17788 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17789 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17791 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17792 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17795 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17796 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17797 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17798 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17799 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17800 Closes ticket 14922.
17801 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17802 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17803 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17804 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17805 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17806 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17807 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17808 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17809 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17810 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17811 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17812 Closes ticket 13338.
17814 o Removed features:
17815 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17816 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17817 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17818 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17819 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17820 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17821 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17822 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17823 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17824 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17825 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17826 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17827 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17828 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17829 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17832 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17833 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17834 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17835 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17836 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17837 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17838 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17839 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17840 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17841 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17842 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17844 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17845 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17846 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17847 Closes ticket 15817.
17848 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17849 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17850 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17851 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17852 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17853 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17854 network before we begin.
17855 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17856 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17857 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17858 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17859 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17860 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17862 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17863 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17865 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17866 default as a part of "make check".
17867 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17868 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17869 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17870 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17871 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17872 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17873 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17874 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17875 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17876 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17877 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17878 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17879 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17880 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17881 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17882 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17883 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17884 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17885 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17886 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17887 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17888 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17889 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17890 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17891 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17892 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17893 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17894 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17895 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17896 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17897 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17899 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17900 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17901 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17902 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17903 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17905 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17906 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17907 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17908 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17909 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17910 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17912 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17913 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17914 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17915 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17916 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17917 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17918 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17919 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17922 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17923 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17924 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17925 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17926 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17927 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17928 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17929 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17932 o Minor features (geoip):
17933 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17934 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17936 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17937 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17938 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17939 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17940 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17941 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17943 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17944 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17945 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17946 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17949 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17950 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17951 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17952 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17953 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17955 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17956 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17957 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17958 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17959 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17962 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17963 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17964 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17965 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17966 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17967 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17968 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17970 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17971 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17972 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17973 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17975 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17976 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17977 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17978 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17979 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17980 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17983 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17984 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17985 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17988 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17989 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17990 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17991 authorities should upgrade.
17993 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17994 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17995 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17996 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17999 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18000 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18001 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18004 o Minor features (geoip):
18005 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18006 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18010 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18011 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18012 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18013 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18014 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18016 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18017 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18019 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18020 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18021 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18022 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18023 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18024 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18025 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18027 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18028 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18029 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18030 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18031 Resolves ticket 15515.
18032 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18033 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18034 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18038 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18039 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18040 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18041 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18042 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18044 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18045 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18047 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18048 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18049 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18050 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18051 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18052 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18053 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18055 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18056 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18057 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18058 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18059 Resolves ticket 15515.
18062 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18063 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18064 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18065 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18066 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18068 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18069 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18071 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18072 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18073 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18074 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18075 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18076 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18077 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18079 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18080 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18081 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18082 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18083 Resolves ticket 15515.
18086 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18087 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18089 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18090 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18091 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18092 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18093 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18094 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18095 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18096 bugs should be addressed.
18098 o New compiler and system requirements:
18099 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18100 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18101 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18102 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18104 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18105 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18106 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18107 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18108 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18109 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18110 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18111 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18112 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18114 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18115 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18116 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18117 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18118 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18119 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18120 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18122 o Directory authority changes:
18123 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18124 closes ticket 14487.
18125 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18126 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18127 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18129 o Major features (bridges):
18130 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18131 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18132 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18135 o Major features (changed defaults):
18136 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18137 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18138 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18139 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18140 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18141 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18143 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18144 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18145 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18146 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18149 o Major features (directory system):
18150 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18151 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18152 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18153 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18154 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18155 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18156 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18157 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18158 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18159 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18160 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18161 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18162 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18163 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18164 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18165 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18167 o Major features (guards):
18168 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18169 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18170 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18171 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18172 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18174 o Major features (hidden services):
18175 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18176 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18177 Closes ticket 13667.
18178 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18179 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18180 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18181 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18182 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18183 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18184 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18185 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18186 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18187 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18188 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18190 o Major features (performance):
18191 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18192 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18193 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18194 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18195 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18196 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18197 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18198 Implements ticket 9682.
18200 o Major features (relay):
18201 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18202 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18203 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18204 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18205 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18206 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18207 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18208 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18210 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18211 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18212 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18213 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18214 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18215 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18216 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18219 o Major features (sample torrc):
18220 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18221 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18222 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18223 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18224 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18225 generally useful "sample torrc".
18227 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18228 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18229 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18230 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18231 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18232 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18234 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18235 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18236 Implements ticket 11485.
18238 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18239 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18240 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18241 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18242 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18243 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18246 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18247 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18248 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18251 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18252 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18253 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18255 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18256 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18257 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18258 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18259 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18261 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18262 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18263 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18264 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18266 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18267 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18268 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18271 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18272 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18273 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18274 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18275 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18276 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18278 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18279 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18280 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18281 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18283 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18284 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18285 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18286 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18287 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18288 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18289 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18291 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18292 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18293 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18294 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18295 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18296 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18298 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18299 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18300 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18301 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18302 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18303 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18304 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18305 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18307 o Minor features (build):
18308 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18309 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18310 Resolves ticket 13037.
18312 o Minor features (client):
18313 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18314 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18315 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18316 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18318 o Minor features (client):
18319 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18320 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18321 Resolves ticket 13315.
18323 o Minor features (controller):
18324 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18325 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18327 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18328 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18330 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18331 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18332 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18333 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18334 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18335 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18336 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18337 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18338 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18340 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18341 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18342 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18343 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18344 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18345 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18346 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18347 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18348 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18349 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18351 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18352 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18353 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18354 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18355 argument more than once.
18356 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18357 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18358 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18359 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18360 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18361 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18363 o Minor features (geoip):
18364 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18365 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18368 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18369 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18370 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18371 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18373 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18374 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18375 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18376 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18377 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18379 o Minor features (hidden service):
18380 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18381 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18382 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18383 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18384 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18385 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18386 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18387 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18388 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18389 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18390 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18391 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18392 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18393 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18395 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18396 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18397 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18399 o Minor features (interface):
18400 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18401 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18402 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18404 o Minor features (logging):
18405 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18406 Resolves ticket 6852.
18407 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18408 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18409 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18411 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18412 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18413 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18414 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18415 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18416 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18417 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18418 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18419 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18420 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18421 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18422 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18425 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18426 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18427 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18428 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18430 o Minor features (relay):
18431 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18432 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18433 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18435 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18436 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18437 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18438 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18439 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18440 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18441 document. Implements feature 10427.
18443 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18444 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18445 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18446 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18448 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18449 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18450 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18451 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18452 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18453 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18455 o Minor features (stability):
18456 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18457 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18460 o Minor features (systemd):
18461 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18462 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18463 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18464 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18465 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18466 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18468 o Minor features (testing networks):
18469 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18470 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18471 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18472 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18473 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18475 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18476 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18477 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18478 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18479 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18480 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18482 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18483 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18484 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18485 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18486 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18488 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18489 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18490 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18491 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18492 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18494 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18495 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18496 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18497 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18498 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18501 o Minor features (validation):
18502 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18503 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18504 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18505 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18506 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18507 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18508 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18509 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18510 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18511 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18512 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18515 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18516 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18517 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18518 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18520 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18521 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18522 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18523 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18525 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18526 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18527 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18529 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18530 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18531 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18533 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18534 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18535 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18536 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18537 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18538 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18539 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18541 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18542 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18543 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18544 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18545 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18546 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18547 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18548 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18549 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18551 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18552 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18553 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18554 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18555 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18556 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18557 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18558 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18559 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18561 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18562 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18563 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18564 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18565 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18566 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18567 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18568 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18570 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18571 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18572 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18575 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18576 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18577 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18578 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18579 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18581 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18582 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18583 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18584 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18585 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18586 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18587 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18588 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18590 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18591 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18592 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18593 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18594 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18596 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18597 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18598 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18599 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18600 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18602 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18603 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18604 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18606 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18607 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18608 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18609 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18610 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18612 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18613 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18614 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18616 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18617 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18619 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18620 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18621 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18622 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18624 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18625 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18627 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18628 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18629 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18630 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18631 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18632 Addresses ticket 14188.
18633 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18634 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18635 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18636 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18637 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18638 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18639 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18640 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18641 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18642 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18643 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18646 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18647 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18648 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18649 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18650 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18651 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18653 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18654 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18655 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18656 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18657 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18659 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18660 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18661 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18662 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18663 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18664 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18665 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18666 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18667 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18668 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18669 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18670 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18671 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18672 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18673 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18674 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18676 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18677 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18678 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18679 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18680 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18681 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18682 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18683 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18686 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18687 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18688 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18689 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18690 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18691 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18692 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18693 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18694 state, and key files.
18695 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18696 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18699 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18700 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18701 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18702 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18703 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18704 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18705 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18706 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18707 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18708 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18709 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18710 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18711 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18712 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18713 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18714 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18715 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18716 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18719 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18720 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18721 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18722 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18723 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18724 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18725 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18726 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18727 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18728 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18730 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18731 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18732 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18733 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18734 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18735 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18737 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18738 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18740 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18741 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18742 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18743 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18744 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18746 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18747 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18748 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18749 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18750 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18751 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18753 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18754 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18755 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18757 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18758 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18759 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18761 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18762 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18763 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18764 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18765 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18767 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18768 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18769 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18772 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18773 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18774 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18775 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18776 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18779 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18780 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18781 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18782 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18785 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18786 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18787 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18790 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18791 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18792 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18794 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18795 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18796 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18797 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18798 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18801 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18802 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18803 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18804 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18805 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18806 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18808 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18809 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18810 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18811 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18812 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18813 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18815 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18816 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18817 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18818 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18819 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18820 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18821 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18822 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18823 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18824 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18825 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18826 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18827 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18828 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18829 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18830 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18831 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18832 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18833 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18834 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18835 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18836 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18837 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18838 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18839 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18840 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18841 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18842 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18843 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18844 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18845 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18846 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18848 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18849 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18850 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18851 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18852 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18854 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18855 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18856 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18857 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18858 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18859 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18860 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18861 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18862 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18864 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18865 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18866 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18868 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18869 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18870 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18873 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18874 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18875 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18876 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18879 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18880 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18881 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18883 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18884 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18885 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18887 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18888 Resolves ticket 12205.
18889 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18890 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18891 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18892 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18894 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18895 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18896 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18898 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18899 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18901 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18902 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18903 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18904 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18905 or_options_t structure.
18906 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18907 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18908 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18909 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18910 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18911 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18912 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18913 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18915 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18916 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18918 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18920 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18921 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18922 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18923 with a function instead.
18924 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18925 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18926 Closes ticket 13172.
18927 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18928 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18929 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18930 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18931 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18932 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18933 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18934 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18935 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18936 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18937 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18938 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18942 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18943 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18944 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18945 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18947 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18948 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18949 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18950 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18951 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18952 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18953 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18954 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18955 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18956 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18957 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18958 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18959 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18960 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18961 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18962 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18963 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18964 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18966 o Distribution (systemd):
18967 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18968 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18969 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18970 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18971 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18973 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18974 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18976 o Downgraded warnings:
18977 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18978 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18981 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18982 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18983 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18986 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18987 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18988 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18989 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18990 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18991 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18992 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18993 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18994 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18995 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18997 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18998 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18999 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19000 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19003 o Removed features:
19004 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19005 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19006 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19007 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19008 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19010 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19011 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19012 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19013 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19014 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19015 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19016 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19017 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19018 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19020 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19021 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19023 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19024 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19025 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19026 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19027 anymore, and ignore it.
19029 o Removed platform support:
19030 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19031 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19032 Closes ticket 11446.
19034 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19035 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19036 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19038 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19040 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19041 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19042 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19045 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19046 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19047 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19048 (existing behavior).
19049 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19050 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19051 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19052 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19053 Closes ticket 14107.
19054 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19055 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19056 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19057 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19059 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19060 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19061 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19062 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19063 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19064 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19066 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19068 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19069 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19070 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19071 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19072 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19073 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19074 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19075 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19076 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19077 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19078 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19079 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19081 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19082 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19083 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19085 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19086 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19088 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19089 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19090 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19092 o Directory authority changes:
19093 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19094 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19095 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19096 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19097 closes ticket 14487.
19099 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19100 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19101 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19104 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19105 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19106 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19107 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19108 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19109 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19110 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19111 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19113 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19114 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19115 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19116 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19118 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19119 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19120 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19121 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19123 o Minor features (controller):
19124 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19125 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19126 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19128 o Minor features (geoip):
19129 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19130 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19133 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19134 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19135 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19136 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19137 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19138 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19140 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19141 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19142 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19143 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19145 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19146 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19147 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19148 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19149 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19150 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19151 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19152 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19154 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19155 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19156 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19158 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19159 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19160 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19161 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19162 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19166 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19167 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19168 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19171 o Directory authority changes:
19172 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19173 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19174 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19175 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19176 closes ticket 14487.
19178 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19179 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19180 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19181 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19183 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19184 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19185 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19186 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19187 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19188 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19189 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19190 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19192 o Minor features (geoip):
19193 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19194 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19197 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19198 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19200 It adds several new security features, including improved
19201 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19202 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19203 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19204 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19205 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19206 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19207 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19208 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19209 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19210 and features mentioned below.
19212 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19213 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19215 o Major features (security):
19216 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19217 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19218 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19219 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19220 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19221 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19222 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19223 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19224 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19225 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19227 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19228 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19229 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19230 streams attached to each circuit.
19232 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19233 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19234 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19235 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19236 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19237 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19238 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19239 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19240 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19241 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19242 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19243 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19244 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19246 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19247 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19248 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19249 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19251 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19252 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19253 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19254 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19255 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19256 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19258 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19259 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19260 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19261 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19262 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19263 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19264 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19265 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19268 o Major features (controller):
19269 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19270 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19271 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19272 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19273 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19274 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19276 o Major features (relay performance):
19277 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19278 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19279 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19280 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19281 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19282 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19283 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19284 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19285 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19286 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19288 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19289 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19290 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19291 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19292 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19293 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19294 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19295 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19296 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19297 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19299 o Major features (testing networks):
19300 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19301 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19302 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19303 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19304 Implements ticket 8530.
19306 o Major features (other):
19307 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19308 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19309 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19310 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19311 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19312 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19314 o Deprecated versions:
19315 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19316 attention for some while.
19318 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19319 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19320 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19322 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19323 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19324 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19325 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19326 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19327 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19328 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19329 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19330 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19331 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19332 router's identity is not forgeable.
19334 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19335 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19336 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19337 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19339 o Major bugfixes (client):
19340 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19341 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19342 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19343 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19344 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19345 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19346 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19347 to build circuits".
19349 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19350 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19351 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19352 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19355 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19356 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19357 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19358 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19359 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19360 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19361 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19363 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19364 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19365 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19366 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19367 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19368 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19369 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19370 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19371 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19372 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19373 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19374 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19375 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19376 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19377 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19378 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19379 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19381 o Minor features (security):
19382 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19383 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19384 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19385 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19387 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19388 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19389 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19390 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19391 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19392 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19393 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19395 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19396 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19397 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19398 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19399 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19400 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19401 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19403 o Minor features (bridge client):
19404 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19405 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19406 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19408 o Minor features (bridge):
19409 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19410 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19412 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19413 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19414 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19415 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19416 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19417 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19418 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19419 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19420 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19421 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19422 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19423 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19424 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19425 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19426 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19428 o Minor features (build):
19429 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19430 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19431 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19432 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19433 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19434 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19435 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19436 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19437 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19438 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19439 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19440 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19441 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19442 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19443 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19446 o Minor features (client):
19447 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19448 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19449 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19450 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19452 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19453 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19454 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19455 Implements ticket 10060.
19456 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19457 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19458 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19460 o Minor features (config options):
19461 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19462 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19463 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19464 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19465 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19466 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19467 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19468 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19469 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19470 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19471 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19472 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19473 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19474 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19475 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19476 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19477 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19480 o Minor features (controller):
19481 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19482 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19484 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19485 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19486 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19487 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19488 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19489 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19490 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19491 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19493 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19494 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19495 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19497 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19498 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19499 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19500 help diagnose bug 7164.
19501 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19502 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19503 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19504 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19505 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19507 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19508 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19509 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19510 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19511 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19512 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19513 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19514 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19515 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19516 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19517 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19518 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19519 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19520 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19521 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19523 o Minor features (geoip):
19524 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19527 o Minor features (interface):
19528 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19529 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19530 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19531 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19533 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19534 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19535 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19537 o Minor features (log messages):
19538 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19539 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19540 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19541 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19542 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19543 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19544 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19545 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19547 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19548 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19549 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19550 Resolves ticket 5286.
19551 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19552 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19553 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19554 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19555 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19556 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19558 o Minor features (performance):
19559 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19560 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19561 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19562 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19563 Closes ticket 8109.
19565 o Minor features (relay):
19566 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19567 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19568 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19570 o Minor features (testing):
19571 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19572 the unit test scripts.
19573 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19574 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19575 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19576 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19578 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19579 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19580 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19581 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19582 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19583 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19584 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19585 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19586 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19587 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19589 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19590 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19591 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19592 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19594 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19595 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19596 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19597 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19598 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19599 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19600 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19601 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19602 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19603 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19605 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19606 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19607 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19609 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19610 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19611 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19612 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19613 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19615 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19616 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19617 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19618 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19619 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19620 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19621 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19622 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19623 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19624 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19625 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19626 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19628 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19629 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19630 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19631 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19632 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19633 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19634 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19635 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19636 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19637 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19638 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19639 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19641 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19642 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19643 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19644 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19646 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19647 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19648 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19649 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19652 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19653 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19654 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19655 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19656 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19657 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19660 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19661 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19662 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19663 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19664 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19666 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19667 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19668 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19671 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19672 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19673 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19674 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19675 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19676 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19677 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19678 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19679 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19680 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19682 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19683 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19684 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19685 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19686 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19688 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19689 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19691 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19692 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19693 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19694 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19695 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19696 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19697 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19698 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19699 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19700 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19701 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19702 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19703 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19705 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19706 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19707 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19708 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19709 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19710 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19711 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19712 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19713 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19714 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19715 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19716 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19717 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19719 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19720 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19721 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19723 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19724 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19725 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19726 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19727 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19728 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19730 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19731 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19732 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19733 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19734 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19735 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19736 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19737 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19738 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19739 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19741 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19742 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19743 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19745 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19746 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19747 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19748 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19749 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19751 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19752 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19753 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19754 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19755 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19756 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19757 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19758 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19759 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19760 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19761 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19762 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19763 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19764 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19766 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19767 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19768 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19769 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19770 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19771 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19772 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19773 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19774 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19776 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19777 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19778 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19779 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19780 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19781 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19782 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19784 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19785 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19787 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19788 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19789 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19790 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19792 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19793 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19794 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19795 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19796 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19797 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19798 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19799 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19800 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19801 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19802 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19803 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19804 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19805 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19806 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19807 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19808 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19810 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19811 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19812 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19813 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19814 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19815 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19816 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19817 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19820 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19821 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19822 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19823 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19824 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19825 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19826 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19827 Reported by "mr-4".
19828 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19829 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19830 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19831 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19833 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19834 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19835 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19836 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19837 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19838 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19839 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19840 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19841 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19842 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19843 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19844 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19846 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19847 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19848 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19850 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19851 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19852 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19854 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19855 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19856 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19857 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19860 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19861 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19862 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19863 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19866 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19867 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19868 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19869 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19871 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19872 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19873 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19875 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19876 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19877 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19878 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19879 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19880 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19881 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19882 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19885 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19886 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19887 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19888 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19889 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19890 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19891 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19892 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19893 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19894 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19895 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19897 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19898 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19899 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19900 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19901 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19903 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19904 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19905 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19906 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19909 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19910 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19911 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19912 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19913 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19914 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19915 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19917 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19918 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19919 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19920 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19921 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19922 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19923 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19924 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19925 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19926 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19927 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19928 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19929 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19930 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19931 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19932 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19933 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19934 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19935 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19936 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19937 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19938 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19939 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19940 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19942 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19943 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19944 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19945 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19946 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19947 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19948 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19949 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19950 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19952 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19953 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19956 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19957 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19959 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19961 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19962 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19963 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19964 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19965 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19966 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19968 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19969 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19971 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19972 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19973 caches don't get confused.
19974 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19975 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19976 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19977 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19978 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19979 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19980 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19981 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19982 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19983 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19984 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19985 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19986 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19987 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19988 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19989 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19990 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19991 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19994 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19995 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
19996 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
19997 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
19998 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20000 o Removed code and features:
20001 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20002 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20003 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20004 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20005 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20006 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20008 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20009 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20010 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20011 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20012 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20013 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20014 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20015 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20016 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20017 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20018 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20019 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20021 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20022 Resolves ticket 11070.
20023 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20024 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20025 the rest of bug 10841.
20026 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20027 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20028 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20029 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20031 o Test infrastructure:
20032 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20033 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20034 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20035 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20036 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20037 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20038 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20039 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20040 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20041 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20043 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20044 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20045 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20046 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20047 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20048 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20049 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20050 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20051 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20052 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20053 invoking the other functions it calls.
20056 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20057 Patch from Dana Koch.
20058 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20059 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20060 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20061 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20063 o Distribution (systemd):
20064 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20065 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20066 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20067 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20068 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20069 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20070 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20071 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20072 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20073 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20074 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20075 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20076 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20080 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20081 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20082 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20083 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20084 (which does affect Tor).
20086 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20087 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20088 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20089 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20091 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20092 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20093 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20094 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20097 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20098 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20099 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20100 the directory authorities.
20103 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20104 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20105 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20106 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20107 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20108 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20109 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20110 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20111 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20112 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20113 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20114 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20116 o Directory authority changes:
20117 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20119 o Minor features (geoip):
20120 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20124 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20125 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20126 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20127 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20130 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20131 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20132 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20133 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20134 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20135 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20136 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20137 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20138 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20139 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20142 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20143 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20144 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20145 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20146 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20147 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20148 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20149 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20153 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20154 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20155 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20156 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20157 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20158 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20159 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20160 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20161 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20162 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20163 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20164 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20165 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20168 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20172 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20173 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20174 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20175 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20176 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20177 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20178 of RAM, and several others.
20180 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20181 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20182 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20183 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20184 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20186 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20187 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20188 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20189 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20192 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20193 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20194 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20195 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20196 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20197 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20198 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20199 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20200 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20201 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20202 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20203 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20204 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20205 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20206 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20207 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20208 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20209 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20210 Resolves ticket 11438.
20212 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20213 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20214 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20215 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20216 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20217 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20219 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20220 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20221 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20223 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20224 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20225 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20227 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20228 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20229 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20230 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20232 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20233 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20234 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20236 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20237 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20238 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20241 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20242 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20243 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20244 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20247 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20248 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20249 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20250 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20252 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20253 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20254 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20255 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20257 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20258 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20259 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20263 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20264 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20265 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20266 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20268 o Major features (client security):
20269 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20270 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20271 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20272 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20273 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20274 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20277 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20278 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20279 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20280 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20282 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20283 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20284 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20285 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20286 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20289 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20290 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20292 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20293 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20294 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20295 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20296 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20297 GeoLite2 Country database.
20300 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20301 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20302 bugfix on every released Tor.
20303 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20304 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20305 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20306 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20307 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20308 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20309 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20310 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20311 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20312 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20313 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20314 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20315 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20316 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20317 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20319 o Documentation fixes:
20320 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20321 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20324 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20325 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20326 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20327 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20328 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20329 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20330 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20332 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20333 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20336 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20337 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20338 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20339 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20340 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20341 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20342 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20343 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20345 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20346 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20347 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20348 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20349 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20350 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20353 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20354 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20355 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20356 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20357 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20360 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20361 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20362 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20363 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20364 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20365 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20366 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20367 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20369 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20370 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20371 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20372 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20373 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20374 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20375 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20376 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20377 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20378 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20379 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20380 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20381 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20382 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20383 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20384 security, and privacy fixes.
20386 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20387 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20388 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20389 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20390 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20391 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20392 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20393 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20394 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20395 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20396 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20398 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20399 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20400 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20402 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20404 o Major features (better link encryption):
20405 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20406 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20407 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20408 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20409 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20410 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20413 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20414 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20415 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20416 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20418 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20420 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20421 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20422 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20423 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20424 them to solve bug 6033.)
20426 o Major features (relay performance):
20427 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20428 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20429 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20430 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20431 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20432 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20433 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20434 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20435 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20436 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20437 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20438 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20439 Implements ticket 9574.
20441 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20442 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20443 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20444 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20445 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20446 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20447 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20448 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20449 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20450 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20451 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20452 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20453 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20454 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20455 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20456 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20458 o Major features (use of guards):
20459 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20460 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20461 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20462 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20463 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20464 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20465 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20466 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20467 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20468 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20469 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20470 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20471 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20472 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20474 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20475 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20476 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20477 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20479 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20480 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20483 o Major features (geoip database):
20484 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20485 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20486 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20487 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20488 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20489 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20491 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20493 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20495 o Major features (IPv6):
20496 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20497 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20498 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20499 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20500 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20501 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20502 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20503 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20504 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20505 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20506 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20507 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20508 revised in proposal 208.
20509 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20510 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20511 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20513 o Major features (directory authorities):
20514 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20515 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20517 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20518 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20519 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20520 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20521 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20522 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20523 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20524 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20525 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20526 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20527 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20529 o Major features (build and portability):
20530 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20531 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20532 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20533 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20534 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20535 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20536 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20537 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20538 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20539 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20540 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20541 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20543 o Security features:
20544 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20545 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20546 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20547 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20548 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20549 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20550 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20551 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20552 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20555 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20556 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20557 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20558 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20559 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20560 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20561 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20562 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20563 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20564 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20565 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20566 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20567 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20568 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20569 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20570 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20571 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20572 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20574 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20575 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20576 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20577 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20579 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20580 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20581 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20583 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20584 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20585 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20586 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20587 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20588 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20589 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20590 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20591 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20593 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20594 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20596 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20597 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20598 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20599 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20600 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20601 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20602 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20603 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20604 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20605 last time we raised it).
20606 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20607 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20608 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20610 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20611 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20612 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20613 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20614 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20615 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20616 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20617 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20618 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20619 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20620 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20621 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20622 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20624 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20625 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20626 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20627 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20628 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20629 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20630 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20631 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20632 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20633 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20634 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20635 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20636 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20638 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20639 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20640 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20641 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20642 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20643 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20644 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20645 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20646 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20648 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20649 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20650 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20651 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20652 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20653 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20654 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20655 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20656 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20657 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20658 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20659 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20660 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20661 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20662 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20663 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20664 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20667 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20668 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20669 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20670 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20672 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20673 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20674 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20675 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20677 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20678 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20679 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20680 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20681 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20682 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20685 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20686 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20687 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20688 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20689 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20690 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20691 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20693 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20694 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20695 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20696 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20698 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20699 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20700 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20701 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20702 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20703 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20704 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20705 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20707 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20708 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20709 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20711 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20712 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20713 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20715 o Internal abstraction features:
20716 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20717 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20718 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20719 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20720 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20721 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20722 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20723 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20724 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20725 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20726 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20727 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20728 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20729 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20730 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20731 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20732 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20734 o New build requirements:
20735 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20736 strongly recommended.
20737 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20738 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20739 from a source distribution.)
20741 o Minor features (protocol):
20742 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20743 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20745 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20746 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20747 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20748 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20749 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20750 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20751 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20752 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20753 closes ticket 7199.
20754 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20755 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20757 o Minor features (security):
20758 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20759 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20760 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20761 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20762 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20763 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20764 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20765 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20766 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20768 o Minor features (control protocol):
20769 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20771 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20772 Implements ticket 4971.
20773 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20774 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20775 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20776 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20777 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20779 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20780 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20782 o Minor features (path selection):
20783 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20784 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20785 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20786 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20787 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20788 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20789 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20790 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20791 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20792 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20793 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20794 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20795 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20796 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20798 o Minor features (hidden services):
20799 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20800 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20801 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20802 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20803 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20804 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20805 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20806 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20807 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20808 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20809 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20810 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20811 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20813 o Minor features (clients):
20814 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20815 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20816 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20817 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20818 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20819 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20820 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20821 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20822 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20824 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20825 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20826 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20827 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20828 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20829 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20830 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20831 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20832 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20833 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20834 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20835 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20836 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20837 Implements part of proposal 222.
20839 o Minor features (bridges):
20840 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20841 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20842 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20843 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20844 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20845 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20846 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20847 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20848 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20849 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20850 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20851 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20852 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20853 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20855 o Minor features (relays):
20856 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20857 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20859 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20860 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20861 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20862 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20863 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20864 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20865 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20866 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20867 connect to the wrong addresses.
20868 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20869 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20870 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20871 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20874 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20875 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20876 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20877 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20878 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20879 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20881 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20882 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20883 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20884 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20886 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20887 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20888 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20889 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20890 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20891 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20893 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20894 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20895 Implements ticket 8151.
20896 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20897 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20898 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20899 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20901 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20902 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20903 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20904 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20905 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20906 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20907 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20908 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20909 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20910 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20911 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20912 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20913 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20914 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20915 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20916 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20917 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20918 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20919 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20920 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20921 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20922 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20923 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20924 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20925 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20926 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20927 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20928 detection capability loss.
20930 o Minor features (build):
20931 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20932 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20933 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20935 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20936 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20937 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20939 o Build improvements (autotools):
20940 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20941 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20942 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20944 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20945 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20946 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20947 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20949 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20950 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20951 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20952 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20953 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20954 than to perform erroneously.
20955 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20957 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20958 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20959 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20961 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20962 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20963 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20964 hard-to-track-down errors.
20965 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20966 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20967 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20968 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20969 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20970 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20971 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20972 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20973 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20974 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20975 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20977 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
20978 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20979 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20980 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20981 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20982 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20983 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20984 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20985 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20986 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20988 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
20989 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20990 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20991 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20992 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20993 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20994 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20995 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20996 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20997 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20998 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
20999 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21000 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21002 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21003 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21004 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21005 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21006 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21007 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21008 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21009 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21010 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21012 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21013 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21014 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21015 part of ticket 6736.
21016 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21017 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21018 Resolves ticket 6758.
21019 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21020 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21021 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21022 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21023 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21024 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21025 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21027 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21028 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21029 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21030 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21032 o Minor features (testing):
21033 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21034 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21036 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21037 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21038 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21041 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21042 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21044 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21045 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21046 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21047 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21048 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21049 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21050 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21051 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21052 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21053 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21054 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21055 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21056 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21057 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21058 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21059 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21060 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21062 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21063 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21064 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21065 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21066 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21067 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21068 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21069 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21070 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21071 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21072 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21073 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21074 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21075 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21076 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21077 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21078 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21079 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21080 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21081 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21084 o Minor fixes (config options):
21085 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21086 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21087 or we just won't work.)
21088 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21089 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21090 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21091 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21092 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21093 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21094 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21095 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21096 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21097 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21098 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21099 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21100 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21101 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21102 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21103 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21104 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21105 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21106 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21108 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21109 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21110 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21112 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21113 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21114 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21115 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21117 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21118 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21119 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21120 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21121 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21122 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21123 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21124 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21125 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21126 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21127 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21128 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21129 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21130 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21131 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21132 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21135 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21136 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21137 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21138 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21139 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21140 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21141 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21142 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21143 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21144 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21145 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21146 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21147 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21148 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21149 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21150 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21151 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21153 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21154 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21155 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21156 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21157 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21158 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21159 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21160 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21162 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21163 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21164 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21165 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21167 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21168 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21169 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21170 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21171 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21173 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21174 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21175 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21176 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21177 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21178 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21180 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21181 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21182 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21183 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21184 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21185 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21186 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21187 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21188 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21190 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21191 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21192 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21193 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21194 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21195 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21196 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21197 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21198 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21199 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21200 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21201 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21203 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21204 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21205 this is CID 718634.
21206 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21207 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21208 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21209 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21211 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21212 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21214 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21215 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21216 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21217 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21218 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21219 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21220 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21221 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21222 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21223 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21224 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21225 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21226 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21227 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21228 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21229 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21230 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21231 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21233 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21234 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21235 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21236 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21237 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21238 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21239 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21240 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21241 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21242 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21243 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21244 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21245 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21248 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21249 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21250 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21251 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21252 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21254 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21255 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21256 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21257 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21258 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21259 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21260 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21261 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21262 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21265 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21266 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21267 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21268 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21270 o Documentation fixes:
21271 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21272 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21273 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21274 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21275 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21276 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21277 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21279 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21280 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21281 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21282 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21283 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21284 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21285 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21286 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21287 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21288 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21289 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21290 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21291 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21293 o Removed features:
21294 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21295 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21296 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21298 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21299 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21300 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21301 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21302 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21303 compatibility code.
21306 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21307 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21309 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21310 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21312 o Code simplification:
21313 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21314 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21315 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21316 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21318 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21319 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21321 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21322 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21323 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21324 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21325 present the same extensions.)
21326 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21328 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21329 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21330 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21331 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21333 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21334 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21335 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21336 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21339 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21341 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21342 and the different handshakes it supports.
21343 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21344 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21345 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21346 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21348 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21349 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21350 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21351 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21352 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21353 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21354 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21355 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21356 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21357 Implements ticket 5529.
21358 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21359 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21360 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21363 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21364 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21365 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21366 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21367 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21368 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21369 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21370 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21371 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21372 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21373 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21374 any encoding is overkill.
21375 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21376 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21377 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21378 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21379 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21380 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21381 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21382 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21383 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21386 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21387 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21388 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21389 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21390 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21391 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21392 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21393 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21395 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21396 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21397 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21398 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21399 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21400 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21401 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21402 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21403 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21404 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21405 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21407 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21408 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21409 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21410 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21411 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21412 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21413 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21414 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21415 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21416 describes microdescriptors.
21418 o Major features (build hardening):
21419 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21421 o Major features (relay scaling):
21422 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21423 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21424 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21425 much faster than other AES implementations.
21426 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21427 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21428 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21429 Resolves ticket 4526.
21430 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21431 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21433 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21434 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21435 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21436 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21438 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21439 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21441 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21442 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21443 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21444 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21445 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21446 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21447 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21448 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21449 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21450 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21451 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21452 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21453 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21454 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21455 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21456 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21457 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21458 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21459 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21461 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21462 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21463 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21464 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21465 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21467 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21468 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21469 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21470 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21471 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21472 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21473 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21474 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21475 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21476 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21477 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21478 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21480 o Major features (hidden services):
21481 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21482 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21483 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21485 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21486 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21487 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21488 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21489 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21490 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21492 o Major features (IPv6):
21493 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21494 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21495 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21496 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21497 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21499 o Major features (directory authorities):
21500 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21501 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21502 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21503 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21504 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21505 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21506 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21507 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21508 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21509 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21511 o Major features (performance):
21512 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21513 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21514 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21515 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21516 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21517 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21518 side of Proposal 174.
21519 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21520 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21521 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21522 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21523 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21524 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21525 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21526 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21527 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21528 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21529 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21530 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21532 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21533 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21534 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21535 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21536 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21539 o Major features (relays):
21540 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21541 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21542 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21543 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21544 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21545 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21546 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21548 o Major features (stream isolation):
21549 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21550 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21551 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21552 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21553 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21554 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21555 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21556 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21557 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21558 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21559 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21560 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21561 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21562 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21564 o Major features (bufferevents):
21565 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21566 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21567 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21568 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21569 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21570 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21571 zero-copy transports where available.
21572 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21573 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21574 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21575 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21576 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21577 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21579 o Major features (path selection):
21580 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21581 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21582 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21583 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21586 o Major features (port forwarding):
21587 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21588 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21589 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21590 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21591 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21592 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21594 o Major features (logging):
21595 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21596 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21597 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21598 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21599 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21600 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21601 Implements enhancement 1668.
21603 o Major features (other):
21604 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21605 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21606 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21607 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21608 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21609 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21610 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21611 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21612 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21613 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21614 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21615 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21616 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21617 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21618 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21619 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21620 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21621 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21622 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21623 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21625 o New directory authorities:
21626 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21627 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21629 o Security/privacy fixes:
21630 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21631 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21632 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21633 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21634 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21635 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21636 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21637 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21638 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21639 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21640 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21641 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21642 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21643 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21644 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21645 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21646 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21647 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21648 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21649 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21650 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21651 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21652 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21653 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21654 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21655 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21656 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21657 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21658 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21659 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21660 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21662 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21663 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21664 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21665 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21666 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21667 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21668 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21669 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21670 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21671 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21672 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21673 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21674 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21675 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21678 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21679 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21680 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21681 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21682 which introduced predicted ports.
21683 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21684 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21685 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21686 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21687 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21688 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21689 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21690 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21691 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21693 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21694 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21695 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21696 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21697 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21698 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21700 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21701 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21702 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21703 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21704 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21705 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21706 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21707 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21708 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21709 documents entirely.
21711 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21712 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21713 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21714 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21715 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21716 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21717 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21718 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21719 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21720 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21721 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21722 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21723 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21724 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21725 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21726 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21727 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21728 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21730 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21731 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21732 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21733 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21734 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21735 cells were introduced.
21736 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21737 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21738 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21739 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21741 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21742 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21743 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21744 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21745 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21746 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21747 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21748 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21749 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21750 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21751 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21752 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21753 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21754 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21755 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21756 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21757 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21758 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21759 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21760 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21762 o Changes to default torrc file:
21763 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21764 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21766 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21767 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21768 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21770 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21771 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21772 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21774 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21775 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21776 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21777 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21778 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21779 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21780 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21781 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21782 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21783 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21784 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21785 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21786 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21787 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21788 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21789 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21792 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21793 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21794 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21795 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21796 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21797 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21798 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21799 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21800 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21801 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21802 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21803 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21804 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21805 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21807 o Minor features (IPv6):
21808 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21809 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21810 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21811 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21812 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21813 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21815 o Minor features (hidden services):
21816 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21817 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21818 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21819 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21820 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21821 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21822 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21823 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21824 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21825 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21826 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21828 o Minor features (relays):
21829 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21830 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21831 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21832 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21833 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21834 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21835 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21836 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21837 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21838 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21839 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21842 o Minor features (new config options):
21843 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21844 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21845 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21846 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21847 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21848 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21849 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21850 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21851 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21852 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21853 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21854 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21856 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21857 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21858 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21859 Implements issue 933.
21860 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21861 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21862 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21863 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21864 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21865 implements ticket 3439.
21866 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21867 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21868 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21869 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21870 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21871 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21872 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21873 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21875 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21876 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21877 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21878 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21879 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21880 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21881 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21882 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21883 appending to the list.
21884 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21885 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21886 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21887 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21890 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21891 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21892 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21893 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21894 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21895 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21896 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21898 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21899 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21900 circuit-status' control-port command.
21901 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21902 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21903 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21904 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21905 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21906 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21908 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21909 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21910 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21911 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21912 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21913 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21914 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21915 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21916 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21918 o Minor features (controller, other):
21919 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21920 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21921 part of ticket 3457.
21922 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21923 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21924 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21925 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21926 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21928 o Minor features (log messages):
21929 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21930 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21931 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21932 please let us know about it.
21933 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21934 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21935 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21936 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21937 Resolves ticket 2474.
21938 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21939 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21941 o Minor features (other):
21942 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21943 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21944 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21945 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21947 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21948 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21949 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21950 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21951 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21952 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21953 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21955 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21956 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21957 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21958 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21959 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21961 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21962 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21963 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21964 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21965 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21966 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21967 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21968 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21969 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21970 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
21971 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
21972 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
21973 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
21974 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21975 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21976 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21979 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
21980 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
21981 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21982 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21983 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21984 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21985 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21986 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
21987 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
21989 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
21990 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
21991 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
21992 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
21993 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21994 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21995 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21996 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
21997 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
21998 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22000 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22001 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22002 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22003 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22004 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22005 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22006 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22007 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22008 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22010 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22011 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22012 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22013 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22014 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22015 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22016 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22017 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22018 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22020 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22021 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22022 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22023 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22024 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22025 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22026 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22028 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22029 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22030 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22031 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22033 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22034 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22035 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22036 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22037 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22038 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22039 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22040 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22041 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22042 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22043 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22044 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22047 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22048 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22049 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22050 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22051 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22052 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22054 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22055 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22056 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22057 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22058 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22059 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22060 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22061 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22062 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22063 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22064 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22065 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22066 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22067 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22068 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22070 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22071 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22072 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22073 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22074 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22075 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22077 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22078 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22079 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22080 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22081 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22082 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22083 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22084 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22085 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22086 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22087 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22088 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22089 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22090 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22091 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22093 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22094 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22095 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22096 be disabled using the new
22097 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22098 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22099 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22100 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22101 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22102 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22103 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22105 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22106 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22107 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22108 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22109 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22110 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22111 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22113 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22114 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22115 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22116 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22117 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22118 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22119 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22120 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22122 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22123 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22124 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22125 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22126 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22127 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22128 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22129 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22131 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22132 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22133 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22134 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22135 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22136 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22137 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22138 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22140 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22141 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22142 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22143 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22145 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22146 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22147 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22149 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22150 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22152 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22153 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22154 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22155 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22156 case for flushing marked connections.
22157 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22158 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22159 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22160 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22161 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22162 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22163 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22164 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22165 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22166 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22168 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22169 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22170 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22171 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22172 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22173 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22174 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22175 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22176 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22177 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22178 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22180 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22181 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22182 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22183 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22184 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22186 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22187 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22188 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22189 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22190 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22191 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22192 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22193 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22194 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22195 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22196 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22197 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22198 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22199 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22200 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22201 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22203 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22204 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22205 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22206 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22207 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22208 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22209 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22210 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22211 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22212 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22213 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22214 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22215 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22216 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22217 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22218 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22219 Implements ticket 3264.
22220 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22222 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22223 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22224 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22225 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22226 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22227 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22229 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22230 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22231 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22232 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22233 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22234 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22235 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22236 them from the other auths.
22237 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22238 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22239 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22240 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22241 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22242 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22243 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22244 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22248 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22249 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22250 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22252 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22253 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22254 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22255 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22256 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22257 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22258 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22259 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22261 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22262 ./src/test/bench binary.
22263 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22264 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22265 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22266 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22269 o Build improvements:
22270 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22271 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22272 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22273 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22274 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22275 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22276 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22277 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22278 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22279 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22280 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22281 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22282 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22283 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22284 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22285 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22286 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22287 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22288 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22289 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22290 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22292 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22294 o Build requirements:
22295 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22296 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22297 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22298 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22299 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22300 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22301 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22302 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22303 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22304 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22305 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22306 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22307 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22309 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22310 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22311 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22313 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22314 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22315 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22316 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22317 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22318 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22319 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22320 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22321 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22323 o Build fixes (other):
22324 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22325 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22327 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22328 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22329 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22330 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22331 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22332 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22333 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22334 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22336 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22337 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22340 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22341 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22342 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22343 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22344 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22345 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22346 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22347 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22349 o Code refactoring (safety):
22350 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22351 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22352 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22353 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22354 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22355 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22356 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22357 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22358 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22359 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22360 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22361 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22363 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22364 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22365 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22366 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22367 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22368 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22369 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22370 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22371 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22372 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22373 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22374 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22375 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22376 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22377 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22378 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22379 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22380 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22382 o Code refactoring (separate):
22383 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22384 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22385 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22387 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22388 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22391 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22392 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22393 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22394 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22395 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22396 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22397 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22398 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22400 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22401 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22402 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22403 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22404 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22405 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22406 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22407 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22408 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22409 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22410 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22412 o Code refactoring (other):
22413 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22414 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22416 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22417 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22418 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22419 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22420 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22421 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22422 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22423 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22424 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22425 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22426 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22427 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22429 o Removed features and files:
22430 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22431 it would be a bad idea to start.
22432 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22434 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22435 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22436 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22437 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22438 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22439 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22440 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22441 are no longer in use as relays.
22442 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22443 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22444 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22445 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22446 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22447 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22451 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22452 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22453 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22455 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22456 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22458 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22459 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22460 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22462 o Documentation fixes:
22463 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22464 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22465 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22466 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22467 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22468 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22469 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22470 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22473 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22474 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22478 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22479 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22480 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22481 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22482 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22483 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22484 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22488 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22489 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22490 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22493 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22494 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22495 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22496 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22497 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22498 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22499 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22500 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22501 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22502 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22503 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22504 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22505 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22506 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22509 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22510 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22511 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22515 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22516 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22517 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22518 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22519 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22520 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22521 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22522 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22523 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22524 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22525 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22528 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22529 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22532 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22533 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22536 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22537 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22538 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22539 and fixes several crash bugs.
22541 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22542 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22543 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22544 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22546 o Directory authority changes:
22547 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22548 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22552 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22553 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22554 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22555 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22556 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22557 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22558 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22559 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22560 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22561 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22562 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22563 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22564 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22565 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22566 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22567 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22568 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22569 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22570 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22571 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22572 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22573 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22574 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22575 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22576 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22577 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22578 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22581 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22582 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22583 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22584 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22586 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22587 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22589 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22590 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22591 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22592 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22593 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22594 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22595 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22596 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22599 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22600 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22601 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22602 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22603 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22604 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22605 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22606 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22607 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22608 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22609 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22610 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22611 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22612 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22613 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22614 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22615 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22616 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22617 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22618 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22619 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22620 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22621 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22622 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22623 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22624 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22625 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22626 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22627 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22628 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22629 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22630 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22631 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22632 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22633 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22634 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22635 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22636 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22637 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22638 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22639 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22640 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22641 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22642 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22643 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22644 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22646 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22647 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22648 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22649 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22650 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22651 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22652 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22653 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22654 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22655 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22656 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22657 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22658 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22659 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22660 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22663 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22664 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22665 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22666 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22668 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22671 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22672 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22673 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22674 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22675 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22676 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22677 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22680 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22681 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22682 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22684 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22685 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22686 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22687 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22688 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22689 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22690 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22691 (which Tor does not do by default).
22693 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22694 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22695 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22696 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22697 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22699 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22700 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22701 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22704 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22705 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22706 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22707 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22708 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22710 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22711 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22714 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22715 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22716 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22717 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22718 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22719 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22720 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22721 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22723 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22724 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22725 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22726 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22727 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22728 close based on processing a cell on it.
22729 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22730 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22731 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22732 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22733 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22734 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22735 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22736 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22737 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22738 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22739 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22740 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22741 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22742 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22743 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22746 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22747 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22748 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22749 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22750 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22751 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22752 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22754 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22755 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22756 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22757 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22758 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22759 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22760 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22761 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22762 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22763 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22764 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22765 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22766 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22767 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22768 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22769 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22770 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22771 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22772 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22773 Reported by "troll_un".
22774 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22775 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22776 Reported by "troll_un".
22777 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22778 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22779 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22780 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22783 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22784 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22785 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22786 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22787 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22788 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22789 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22790 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22791 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22792 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22793 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22795 o Packaging changes:
22796 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22797 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22800 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22801 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22802 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22803 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22804 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22806 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22807 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22809 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22810 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22811 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22812 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22813 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22814 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22815 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22816 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22817 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22820 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22823 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22824 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22825 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22827 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22828 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22829 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22830 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22831 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22832 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22833 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22834 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22835 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22836 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22837 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22838 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22839 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22841 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22842 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22843 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22844 currently connected to them.
22846 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22847 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22848 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22850 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22851 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22852 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22853 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22854 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22855 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22856 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22857 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22858 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22859 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22860 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22861 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22862 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22863 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22864 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22865 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22866 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22867 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22870 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22871 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22872 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22873 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22874 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22875 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22876 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22877 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22878 when bridges were introduced.
22879 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22880 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22881 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22882 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22883 Found by "frosty_un".
22886 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22887 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22889 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22890 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22891 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22892 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22893 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22894 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22895 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22898 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22899 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22900 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22901 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22902 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22903 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22904 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22905 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22906 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22907 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22908 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22909 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22910 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22911 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22912 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22913 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22914 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22915 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22917 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22918 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22919 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22920 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22921 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22922 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22923 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22924 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22925 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22926 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22927 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22928 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22931 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22932 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22933 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22934 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22937 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22938 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22939 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22940 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22941 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22943 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22944 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22945 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22946 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22947 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22948 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22949 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22950 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22951 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22952 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22954 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22955 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22956 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22957 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22958 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22959 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22960 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22961 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22962 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22963 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22964 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22965 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22966 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22967 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22968 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22969 Found by "frosty_un".
22970 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22971 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22972 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22973 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22974 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22975 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22976 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22977 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22978 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22979 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22980 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22981 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22982 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22983 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22984 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22985 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22986 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22987 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22988 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22990 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22991 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22992 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22993 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22994 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22995 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22996 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22997 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22999 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23000 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23001 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23002 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23003 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23004 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23005 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23006 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23007 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23008 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23009 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23010 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23012 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23013 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23014 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23015 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23016 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23017 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23018 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23019 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23020 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23022 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23024 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23025 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23026 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23027 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23028 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23029 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23030 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23031 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23033 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23034 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23035 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23036 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23037 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23039 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23040 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23041 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23042 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23043 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23046 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23047 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23048 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23049 reachable from Iran again.
23052 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23053 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23054 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23056 o Minor features (security):
23057 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23058 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23059 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23060 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23061 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23062 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23063 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23064 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23065 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23066 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23069 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23070 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23071 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23072 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23073 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23074 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23075 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23076 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23077 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23079 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23080 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23081 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23082 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23083 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23084 raised by bug 3898.
23085 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23086 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23087 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23088 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23089 fixes part of bug 2442.
23090 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23091 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23092 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23094 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23095 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23096 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23097 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23098 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23101 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23102 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23103 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23104 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23105 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23106 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23109 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23110 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23111 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23112 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23113 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23114 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23115 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23116 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23117 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23118 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23120 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23121 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23122 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23123 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23124 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23125 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23126 many many other features and bugfixes.
23128 o Major features (client performance):
23129 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23130 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23131 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23132 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23133 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23134 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23136 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23137 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23138 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23139 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23140 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23141 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23142 the first implementation of this feature.
23144 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23145 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23146 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23147 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23148 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23149 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23150 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23151 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23152 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23153 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23154 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23155 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23156 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23157 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23158 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23159 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23161 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23162 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23163 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23164 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23165 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23166 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23167 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23168 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23169 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23170 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23171 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23172 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23173 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23174 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23175 they first get the Guard flag.
23176 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23177 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23178 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23179 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23180 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23181 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23182 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23183 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23185 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23186 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23187 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23188 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23189 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23190 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23191 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23192 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23193 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23194 but never per-conn write limits.
23195 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23196 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23197 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23198 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23200 o Major features (controllers):
23201 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23202 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23203 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23204 contributions to the network.
23205 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23206 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23207 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23209 o Major features (directory authorities):
23210 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23211 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23212 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23214 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23215 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23216 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23217 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23218 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23219 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23220 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23221 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23222 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23223 hash algorithm in the future.
23224 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23225 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23226 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23228 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23229 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23230 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23231 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23232 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23233 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23234 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23235 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23236 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23237 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23238 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23239 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23240 connections to directory servers.
23241 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23242 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23243 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23244 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23245 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23246 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23247 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23248 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23249 information, or fetch directory information.
23250 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23251 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23252 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23253 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23254 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23256 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23257 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23258 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23259 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23260 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23261 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23262 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23263 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23264 the network changes.
23265 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23266 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23268 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23269 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23270 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23271 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23272 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23273 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23274 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23275 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23276 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23277 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23278 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23279 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23280 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23281 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23282 reachability self-tests.
23283 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23284 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23285 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23286 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23287 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23289 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23290 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23291 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23293 o Major features (misc):
23294 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23295 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23296 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23297 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23298 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23299 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23300 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23301 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23302 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23303 part of ticket 3076.
23304 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23305 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23306 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23308 o Code security improvements:
23309 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23310 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23311 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23312 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23313 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23314 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23315 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23316 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23317 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23318 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23319 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23320 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23321 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23322 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23323 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23324 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23325 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23326 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23327 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23328 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23329 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23330 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23331 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23332 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23333 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23334 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23335 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23336 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23338 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23339 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23340 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23341 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23342 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23343 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23344 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23345 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23346 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23347 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23348 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23349 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23350 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23352 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23353 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23354 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23356 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23357 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23359 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23360 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23361 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23362 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23363 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23364 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23365 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23366 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23367 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23368 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23369 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23370 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23371 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23372 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23373 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23374 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23375 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23377 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23378 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23379 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23381 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23382 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23383 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23384 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23385 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23386 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23387 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23388 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23389 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23390 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23391 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23392 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23393 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23394 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23395 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23396 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23397 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23398 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23399 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23401 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23402 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23403 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23404 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23405 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23406 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23407 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23408 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23409 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23410 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23412 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23413 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23414 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23415 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23416 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23417 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23418 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23419 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23420 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23421 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23423 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23424 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23425 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23426 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23427 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23428 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23429 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23430 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23431 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23432 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23433 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23434 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23435 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23437 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23438 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23439 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23440 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23441 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23442 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23443 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23444 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23445 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23446 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23448 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23449 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23450 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23451 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23452 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23453 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23454 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23456 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23457 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23458 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23459 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23460 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23461 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23462 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23463 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23464 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23465 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23466 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23467 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23468 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23469 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23470 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23472 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23473 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23474 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23475 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23476 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23477 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23478 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23480 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23481 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23482 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23483 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23484 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23485 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23486 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23487 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23489 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23490 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23491 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23492 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23493 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23494 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23495 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23496 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23497 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23498 the longest-lived bug prize.
23499 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23500 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23501 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23502 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23503 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23504 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23505 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23506 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23507 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23508 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23510 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23511 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23512 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23513 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23514 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23515 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23518 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23519 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23520 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23521 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23522 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23523 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23524 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23525 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23526 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23527 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23528 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23529 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23530 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23531 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23532 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23533 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23534 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23535 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23536 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23537 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23538 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23539 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23540 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23541 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23542 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23543 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23545 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23546 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23547 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23548 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23549 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23550 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23551 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23552 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23553 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23555 o Minor features (relays):
23556 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23557 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23558 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23559 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23560 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23561 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23562 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23563 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23565 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23566 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23567 Resolves ticket 3252.
23568 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23569 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23571 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23572 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23573 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23574 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23575 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23577 o Minor features (network statistics):
23578 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23579 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23580 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23581 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23582 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23583 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23584 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23585 measure download times.
23586 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23587 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23589 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23590 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23591 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23592 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23594 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23595 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23596 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23598 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23599 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23600 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23601 Implements ticket 2432.
23602 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23603 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23604 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23605 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23606 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23607 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23608 Implements enhancement 1790.
23609 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23610 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23612 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23613 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23614 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23615 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23616 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23617 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23618 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23620 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23622 o Minor features (clients):
23623 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23624 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23625 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23626 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23628 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23629 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23630 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23631 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23632 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23633 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23634 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23635 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23637 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23638 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23639 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23640 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23641 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23642 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23643 SSL handshake issues.
23645 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23646 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23647 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23648 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23649 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23650 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23651 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23652 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23653 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23654 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23655 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23656 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23657 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23658 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23659 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23660 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23661 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23662 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23663 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23664 hour of their uptime.
23665 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23666 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23667 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23668 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23670 o Minor features (hidden services):
23671 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23672 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23673 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23674 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23675 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23676 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23677 by fix for bug 3000.
23678 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23679 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23680 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23681 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23682 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23684 o Minor features (controller interface):
23685 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23686 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23687 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23688 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23689 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23690 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23691 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23692 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23693 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23694 over our stored history.
23695 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23696 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23697 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23699 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23700 to the circuit build timeout.
23701 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23702 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23703 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23705 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23706 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23707 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23708 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23710 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23711 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23712 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23713 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23714 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23715 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23716 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23717 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23718 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23719 arguments we do not recognize.
23721 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23722 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23723 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23724 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23725 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23726 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23727 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23728 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23729 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23730 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23731 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23732 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23733 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23734 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23735 got suppressed since the last warning.
23736 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23737 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23738 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23739 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23740 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23741 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23742 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23744 o Minor features (log domains):
23745 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23746 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23747 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23749 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23750 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23752 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23753 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23754 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23756 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23757 during the TLS handshake.
23759 o Minor features (build process):
23760 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23761 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23762 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23764 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23765 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23766 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23768 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23769 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23770 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23771 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23772 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23773 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23775 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23776 source files Tor was built with.
23777 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23778 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23779 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23780 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23781 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23782 speeds up the build considerably.
23784 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23785 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23786 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23787 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23788 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23789 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23790 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23791 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23792 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23793 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23794 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23795 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23796 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23797 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23798 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23799 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23800 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23801 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23802 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23803 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23804 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23805 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23806 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23807 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23808 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23809 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23810 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23811 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23813 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23814 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23815 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23818 o Minor features (unit tests):
23819 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23820 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23821 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23822 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23823 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23824 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23826 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23827 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23830 o Minor features (misc):
23831 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23832 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23833 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23834 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23836 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23837 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23838 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23839 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23840 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23842 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23843 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23844 open() without checking it.
23845 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23846 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23847 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23848 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23850 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23851 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23852 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23853 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23854 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23855 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23856 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23857 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23858 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23859 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23860 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23861 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23862 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23863 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23864 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23865 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23866 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23867 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23868 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23869 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23870 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23871 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23872 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23873 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23874 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23875 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23876 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23877 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23879 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23880 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23881 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23882 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23884 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23885 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23886 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23887 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23888 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23890 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23891 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23892 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23893 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23894 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23895 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23896 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23897 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23898 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23899 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23900 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23901 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23902 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23904 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23905 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23906 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23907 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23908 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23909 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23910 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23911 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23912 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23913 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23914 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23915 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23916 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23917 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23918 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23919 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23920 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23921 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23922 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23923 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23924 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23926 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23927 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23928 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23929 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23930 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23931 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23932 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23933 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23934 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23936 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23937 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23938 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23939 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23940 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23941 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23942 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23943 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23944 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23945 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23946 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23947 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23948 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23951 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23952 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23953 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23954 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23955 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23956 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23957 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23958 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23959 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23960 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23961 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23963 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23964 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23966 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23967 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
23968 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
23969 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
23970 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23971 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
23972 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
23973 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
23975 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23976 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23977 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23978 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23979 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
23980 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
23981 discovered by katmagic.
23982 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
23983 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
23985 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
23986 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23987 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23988 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23989 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23990 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23991 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23992 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23993 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23995 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
23996 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
23998 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
23999 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24001 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24002 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24004 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24005 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24006 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24007 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24008 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24009 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24010 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24011 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24012 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24013 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24014 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24015 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24016 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24017 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24018 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24020 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24021 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24022 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24023 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24024 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24025 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24026 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24027 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24028 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24030 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24031 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24032 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24034 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24035 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24036 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24037 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24039 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24040 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24041 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24042 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24043 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24044 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24045 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24047 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24048 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24049 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24050 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24051 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24052 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24054 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24055 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24056 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24057 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24058 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24059 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24060 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24061 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24062 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24064 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24065 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24066 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24067 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24068 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24069 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24070 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24071 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24072 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24073 control-spec.txt said they were.
24075 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24076 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24077 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24079 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24080 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24081 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24082 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24083 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24085 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24086 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24088 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24089 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24090 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24091 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24092 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24093 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24094 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24096 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24097 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24098 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24099 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24100 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24101 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24102 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24103 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24106 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24107 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24108 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24109 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24110 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24111 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24112 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24113 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24114 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24115 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24116 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24117 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24118 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24119 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24120 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24122 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24123 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24124 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24125 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24126 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24127 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24128 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24130 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24131 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24134 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24135 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24136 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24137 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24138 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24139 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24140 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24141 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24142 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24143 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24144 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24145 fixes part of bug 3407.
24146 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24147 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24148 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24149 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24150 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24151 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24152 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24153 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24154 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24155 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24157 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24158 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24159 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24160 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24161 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24162 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24163 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24164 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24165 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24166 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24167 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24168 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24169 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24170 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24171 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24172 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24173 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24175 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24176 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24177 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24178 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24179 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24180 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24181 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24182 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24183 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24184 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24185 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24186 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24188 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24189 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24190 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24191 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24192 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24194 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24195 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24196 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24197 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24199 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24200 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24201 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24202 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24203 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24204 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24205 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24206 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24207 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24208 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24210 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24211 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24212 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24213 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24214 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24215 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24216 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24217 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24219 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24220 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24221 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24223 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24224 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24225 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24226 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24227 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24228 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24229 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24230 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24231 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24232 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24234 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24236 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24237 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24238 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24239 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24240 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24241 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24242 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24243 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24244 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24245 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24247 o Documentation changes:
24248 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24249 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24251 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24252 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24253 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24254 what should go in a patch.
24255 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24257 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24258 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24259 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24260 projects directory in svn.
24262 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24263 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24264 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24265 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24266 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24267 hidden service usage.
24268 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24269 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24270 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24271 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24272 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24275 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24276 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24277 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24278 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24279 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24282 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24283 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24284 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24285 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24286 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24287 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24288 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24289 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24290 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24291 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24292 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24293 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24294 via application-level web tricks.
24295 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24296 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24297 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24298 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24299 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24300 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24301 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24302 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24303 keep the workaround in place.
24304 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24305 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24306 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24307 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24308 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24309 want to do it differently.
24310 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24311 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24312 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24315 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24316 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24317 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24318 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24319 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24320 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24323 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24324 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24325 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24326 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24327 the rest of bug 1074.
24328 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24329 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24330 Found by "piebeer".
24331 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24332 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24333 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24334 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24335 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24336 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24337 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24340 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24342 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24345 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24346 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24347 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24348 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24349 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24350 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24351 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24352 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24353 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24354 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24355 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24357 o Packaging changes:
24358 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24359 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24360 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24361 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24362 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24363 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24366 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24367 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24368 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24369 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24370 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24372 o Major bugfixes (security):
24373 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24374 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24375 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24377 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24378 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24379 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24380 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24381 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24382 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24383 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24384 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24386 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24387 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24388 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24389 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24390 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24391 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24392 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24393 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24394 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24395 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24396 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24397 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24398 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24399 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24402 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24403 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24404 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24405 bug reported by doorss.
24406 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24407 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24408 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24409 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24410 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24412 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24413 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24414 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24415 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24416 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24419 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24420 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24423 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24424 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24425 Automake 1.7 or later.
24426 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24427 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24428 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24429 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24432 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24433 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24434 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24435 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24439 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24440 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24441 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24442 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24444 o Directory authority changes:
24445 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24448 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24451 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24452 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24453 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24454 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24455 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24458 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24459 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24460 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24461 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24462 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24463 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24464 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24465 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24466 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24467 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24468 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24469 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24470 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24471 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24472 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24473 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24474 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24475 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24476 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24477 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24478 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24479 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24480 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24483 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24484 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24485 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24486 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24488 o New directory authorities:
24489 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24493 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24494 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24495 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24497 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24498 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24499 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24500 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24501 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24502 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24504 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24505 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24506 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24509 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24510 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24511 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24512 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24513 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24514 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24515 Patch from mingw-san.
24518 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24519 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24520 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24521 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24522 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24523 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24526 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24527 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24528 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24529 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24530 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24532 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24533 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24536 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24537 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24538 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24539 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24540 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24541 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24542 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24543 their directory fetches over TLS).
24544 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24545 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24546 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24547 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24548 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24549 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24550 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24551 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24554 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24555 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24559 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24560 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24561 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24562 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24563 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24564 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24565 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24568 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24569 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24570 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24571 several minor potential security bugs.
24574 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24575 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24576 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24577 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24578 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24579 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24580 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24583 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24584 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24586 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24587 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24588 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24589 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24592 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24593 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24597 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24598 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24599 customized patches to run/build.
24602 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24603 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24604 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24607 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24608 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24609 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24610 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24611 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24612 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24613 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24614 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24617 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24618 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24619 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24620 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24621 libraries in a security patch.
24622 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24623 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24624 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24625 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24629 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24630 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24633 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24634 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24635 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24636 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24637 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24640 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24641 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24642 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24643 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24644 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24646 o Directory authority changes:
24647 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24651 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24652 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24653 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24656 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24657 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24658 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24659 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24660 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24663 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24664 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24665 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24666 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24667 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24668 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24669 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24672 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24673 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24674 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24675 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24676 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24677 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24679 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24680 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24683 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24684 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24685 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24686 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24688 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24689 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24691 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24692 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24693 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24694 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24697 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24698 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24699 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24700 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24701 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24703 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24704 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24706 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24707 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24708 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24711 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24712 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24713 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24715 o New directory authorities:
24716 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24718 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24721 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24722 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24724 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24725 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24726 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24727 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24728 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24729 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24730 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24731 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24732 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24733 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24734 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24735 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24736 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24737 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24738 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24739 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24740 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24742 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24743 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24744 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24746 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24747 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24751 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24752 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24753 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24754 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24755 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24758 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24759 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24763 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24764 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24765 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24768 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24769 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24770 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24771 and confuse fewer users.
24774 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24775 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24776 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24777 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24778 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24779 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24780 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24783 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24784 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24785 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24786 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24787 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24788 other features and bug fixes.
24790 o Major features (clients):
24791 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24792 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24793 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24794 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24796 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24797 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24798 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24799 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24800 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24801 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24802 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24803 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24804 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24805 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24807 o Major features (relays):
24808 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24809 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24810 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24811 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24812 data. Found by Jacob.
24813 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24814 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24815 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24816 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24818 o Major features (hidden services):
24819 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24820 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24821 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24822 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24823 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24824 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24825 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24826 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24827 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24828 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24829 lookups more reliable.
24831 o Major features (path selection):
24832 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24833 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24834 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24835 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24836 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24838 o Major features (misc):
24839 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24840 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24842 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24843 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24844 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24845 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24846 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24847 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24849 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24850 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24851 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24852 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24854 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24857 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24858 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24859 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24860 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24861 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24862 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24863 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24864 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24865 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24866 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24867 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24868 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24869 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24870 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24871 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24872 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24873 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24874 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24875 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24876 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24877 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24878 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24879 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24880 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24881 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24882 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24883 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24884 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24885 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24886 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24887 Implements proposal 148.
24889 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24890 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24891 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24892 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24893 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24894 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24896 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24897 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24898 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24899 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24900 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24901 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24902 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24903 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24904 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24906 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24907 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24908 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24909 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24911 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24912 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24913 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24914 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24915 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24916 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24917 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24918 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24919 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24921 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24922 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24923 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24924 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24925 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24926 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24927 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24928 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24929 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24930 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24931 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24932 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24933 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24934 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24935 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24936 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24939 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24940 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24941 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24942 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24943 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24944 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24945 patch by Sebastian.
24946 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24947 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24948 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24949 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24950 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24951 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24952 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24953 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24954 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24955 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24958 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24959 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24960 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24961 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24962 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24963 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24965 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24966 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24967 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24968 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24969 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24970 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24971 on a typical directory cache.
24972 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24973 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24974 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24975 and may reduce fragmentation.
24977 o New/changed config options:
24978 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24979 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24980 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24981 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24982 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24983 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24984 locked down these days.
24985 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24986 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24987 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24988 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24989 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24990 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24991 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24992 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24993 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24994 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24995 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
24996 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
24997 directory requests we should expect to see.
24998 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24999 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25000 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25001 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25002 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25003 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25004 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25006 o Minor features (relays):
25007 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25008 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25009 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25010 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25011 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25013 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25014 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25015 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25016 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25017 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25018 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25019 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25020 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25021 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25022 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25023 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25024 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25025 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25027 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25028 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25029 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25030 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25031 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25032 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25033 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25034 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25035 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25036 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25037 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25039 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25040 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25041 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25042 fingerprints with or without space.
25044 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25045 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25046 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25047 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25048 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25049 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25050 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25051 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25052 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25054 o Minor features (bridges):
25055 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25056 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25058 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25059 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25062 o Minor features (hidden services):
25063 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25064 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25065 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25066 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25067 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25068 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25069 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25070 faster after restart.
25071 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25072 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25074 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25075 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25077 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25078 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25080 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25081 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25082 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25083 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25084 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25085 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25086 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25087 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25088 system to do it for us.
25089 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25090 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25091 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25092 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25093 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25094 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25095 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25096 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25097 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25098 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25099 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25100 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25101 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25102 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25103 with log.h on Android.
25104 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25105 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25107 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25108 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25109 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25110 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25112 o Minor features (controllers):
25113 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25114 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25115 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25116 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25117 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25118 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25119 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25120 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25121 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25122 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25124 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25125 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25126 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25127 been fetched and validated.
25128 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25129 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25131 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25133 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25134 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25135 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25136 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25137 partway through and wants to catch up.
25138 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25140 o Minor features (tools):
25141 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25142 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25143 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25144 people find host:port too confusing.
25145 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25146 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25148 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25149 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25150 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25151 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25152 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25153 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25154 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25155 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25156 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25158 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25159 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25160 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25161 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25162 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25164 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25165 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25166 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25168 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25169 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25170 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25171 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25172 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25173 have already been marked for close.
25174 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25175 memory performance during directory parsing.
25177 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25178 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25179 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25180 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25181 done that for a long time.
25182 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25183 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25184 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25185 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25186 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25187 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25188 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25189 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25190 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25191 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25192 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25193 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25194 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25195 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25196 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25197 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25198 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25199 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25200 because of a pending download.
25201 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25202 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25203 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25204 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25205 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25207 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25208 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25209 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25210 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25211 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25212 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25213 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25214 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25215 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25217 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25218 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25220 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25221 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25222 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25223 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25224 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25225 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25226 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25227 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25228 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25229 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25230 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25231 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25232 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25234 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25235 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25236 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25238 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25239 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25241 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25242 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25243 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25244 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25245 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25246 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25247 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25248 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25249 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25250 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25251 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25252 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25253 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25255 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25256 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25257 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25258 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25259 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25260 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25261 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25263 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25264 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25266 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25267 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25268 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25269 Workaround for bug 1024.
25270 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25271 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25272 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25273 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25274 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25275 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25276 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25277 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25280 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25281 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25284 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25285 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25286 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25287 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25288 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25289 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25290 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25292 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25293 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25294 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25295 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25296 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25297 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25298 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25299 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25302 o Deprecated and removed features:
25303 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25304 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25305 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25307 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25309 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25310 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25311 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25312 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25313 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25314 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25315 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25316 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25317 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25318 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25319 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25320 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25321 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25322 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25325 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25326 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25327 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25328 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25329 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25331 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25332 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25333 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25334 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25335 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25336 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25337 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25338 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25339 actual mistakes we're making here.
25340 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25341 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25342 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25343 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25344 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25345 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25346 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25347 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25348 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25349 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25350 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25351 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25352 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25353 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25354 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25357 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25359 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25360 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25361 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25362 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25363 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25366 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25367 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25368 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25369 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25370 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25371 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25372 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25373 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25374 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25375 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25378 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25379 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25380 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25381 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25382 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25383 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25384 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25385 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25388 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25389 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25390 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25391 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25392 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25394 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25395 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25396 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25397 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25400 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25401 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25402 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25403 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25404 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25405 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25406 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25407 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25410 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25411 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25412 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25413 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25416 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25417 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25418 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25419 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25421 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25422 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25423 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25426 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25427 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25430 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25431 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25432 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25433 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25434 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25435 reported by "wood".
25436 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25437 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25438 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25439 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25440 identify a connection.
25441 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25442 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25443 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25444 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25445 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25446 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25447 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25448 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25449 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25450 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25452 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25453 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25454 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25455 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25456 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25457 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25458 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25461 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25462 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25464 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25465 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25466 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25467 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25468 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25469 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25470 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25471 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25473 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25474 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25475 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25476 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25477 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25478 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25479 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25480 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25481 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25482 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25483 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25484 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25485 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25486 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25487 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25488 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25489 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25490 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25491 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25492 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25493 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25494 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25495 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25496 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25497 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25498 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25499 840. Patch from rovv.
25500 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25501 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25502 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25504 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25505 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25506 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25507 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25508 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25509 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25510 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25512 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25513 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25514 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25517 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25518 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25520 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25521 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25522 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25523 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25524 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25525 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25526 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25527 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25528 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25530 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25532 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25533 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25537 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25538 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25539 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25540 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25541 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25542 variety of other issues.
25545 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25546 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25547 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25548 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25549 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25550 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25551 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25552 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25553 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25554 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25555 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25556 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25559 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25560 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25562 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25563 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25564 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25565 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25566 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25567 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25568 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25569 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25570 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25571 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25572 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25573 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25574 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25575 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25576 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25580 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25581 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25582 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25583 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25584 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25585 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25586 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25587 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25588 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25589 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25590 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25591 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25592 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25593 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25594 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25595 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25596 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25597 list. It has been gone for many months.
25598 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25599 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25600 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25603 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25604 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25605 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25608 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25609 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25610 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25611 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25614 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25615 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25616 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25617 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25618 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25619 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25621 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25622 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25623 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25624 pointed out by rovv.
25627 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25628 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25629 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25630 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25631 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25632 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25633 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25634 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25635 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25636 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25637 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25638 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25639 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25640 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25641 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25642 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25643 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25644 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25645 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25646 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25647 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25650 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25651 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25652 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25653 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25654 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25655 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25656 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25658 o New v3 directory design:
25659 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25660 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25661 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25662 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25663 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25664 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25665 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25667 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25668 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25669 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25670 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25671 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25672 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25673 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25674 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25675 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25676 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25677 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25678 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25679 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25680 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25682 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25683 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25684 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25685 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25686 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25687 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25688 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25689 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25690 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25691 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25692 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25693 certain censored countries by default again.
25694 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25695 Tor's x509 certificates.
25697 o Implement bridge relays:
25698 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25699 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25700 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25701 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25702 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25703 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25704 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25705 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25706 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25707 rather than "v2,v3".
25708 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25709 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25710 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25711 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25712 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25713 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25714 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25715 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25716 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25717 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25718 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25720 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25721 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25722 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25723 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25724 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25725 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25726 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25727 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25728 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25729 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25730 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25731 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25732 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25733 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25734 bridges are functioning.
25735 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25736 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25737 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25738 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25739 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25740 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25741 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25742 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25743 knows that password. Unset by default.
25744 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25745 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25746 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25747 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25748 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25749 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25750 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25751 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25752 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25753 and bridges@torproject.org.
25755 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25756 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25757 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25758 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25759 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25760 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25761 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25762 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25763 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25764 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25765 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25766 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25767 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25768 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25769 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25771 o Major features (relay usability):
25772 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25773 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25774 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25775 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25776 proposal 111 for details.
25777 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25778 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25779 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25780 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25782 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25783 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25784 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25786 o Major features (directory authorities):
25787 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25788 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25789 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25790 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25791 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25792 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25793 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25794 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25795 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25796 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25797 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25798 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25799 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25801 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25802 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25803 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25804 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25805 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25806 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25807 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25808 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25809 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25810 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25811 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25812 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25813 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25814 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25815 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25816 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25817 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25818 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25819 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25820 general, controller, or bridge.
25822 o Major features (other):
25823 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25824 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25825 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25826 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25827 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25828 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25829 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25830 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25831 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25832 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25833 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25834 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25835 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25836 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25839 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25840 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25841 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25843 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25844 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25845 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25846 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25847 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25848 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25849 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25850 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25851 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25852 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25853 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25855 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25856 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25858 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25859 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25860 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25861 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25863 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25864 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25865 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25866 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25867 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25869 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25870 address maps to an internal address space.
25871 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25872 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25873 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25874 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25875 complements proposal 107.
25876 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25877 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25878 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25879 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25880 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25881 reported by taranis and lodger.
25882 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25883 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25884 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25885 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25886 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25887 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25888 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25889 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25890 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25891 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25892 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25893 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25894 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25896 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25897 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25899 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25900 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25901 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25902 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25903 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25904 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25905 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25907 o Major bugfixes (other):
25908 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25909 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25910 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25912 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25913 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25914 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25915 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25916 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25917 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25918 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25919 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25920 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25921 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25922 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25923 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25924 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25925 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25926 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25927 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25928 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25929 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25930 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25932 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25933 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25934 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25935 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25936 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25937 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25938 eat all of our bandwidth.
25939 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25940 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25941 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25942 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25943 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25944 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25945 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25946 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25947 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25948 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25949 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25950 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25952 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25953 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25954 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25955 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25956 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25957 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25958 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25959 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25960 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25961 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25962 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25963 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25965 o Performance improvements (memory):
25966 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25967 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
25968 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
25969 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
25970 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25971 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25972 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25973 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25974 memory fragmentation.
25975 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25976 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25977 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25978 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25979 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25981 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25982 of them were actually distinct.
25983 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25985 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25986 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25987 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25988 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25989 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25990 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25991 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25992 performance-intensive.
25993 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
25994 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25995 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
25996 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25997 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26000 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26001 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26002 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26003 our allocated connection limit.
26004 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26005 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26006 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26007 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26008 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26010 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26011 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26013 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26014 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26015 is interested in a given message.
26016 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26017 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26018 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26019 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26020 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26022 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26023 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26024 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26026 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26027 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26028 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26029 they are the same).
26030 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26031 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26032 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26033 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26036 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26037 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26038 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26039 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26040 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26041 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26042 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26044 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26045 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26046 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26047 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26048 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26049 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26050 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26051 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26052 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26053 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26054 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26055 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26056 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26059 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26060 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26061 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26062 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26063 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26064 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26065 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26066 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26067 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26068 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26069 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26070 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26071 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26072 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26073 and are reaching it.
26074 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26075 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26076 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26077 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26079 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26080 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26081 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26082 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26083 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26084 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26085 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26086 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26087 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26089 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26090 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26091 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26092 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26093 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26094 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26095 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26096 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26098 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26099 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26101 o New config options:
26102 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26103 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26104 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26105 running a test network on a single host.
26106 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26107 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26108 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26109 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26110 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26111 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26112 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26113 the approved-routers file.
26114 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26115 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26116 v2 directory information.
26118 o Minor features (other):
26119 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26120 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26121 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26122 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26123 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26124 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26126 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26127 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26128 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26129 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26130 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26131 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26132 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26134 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26135 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26136 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26138 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26139 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26140 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26141 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26142 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26144 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26145 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26146 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26147 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26148 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26149 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26150 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26152 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26153 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26154 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26155 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26156 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26157 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26158 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26159 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26160 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26163 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26164 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26165 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26167 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26168 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26169 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26170 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26171 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26172 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26174 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26175 bandwidthburst values.
26176 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26177 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26178 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26179 to mark all our entry points down.
26180 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26181 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26182 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26183 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26184 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26186 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26187 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26188 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26189 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26190 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26191 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26192 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26193 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26194 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26196 o Controller features:
26197 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26198 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26199 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26200 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26201 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26202 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26204 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26205 multiple controller passwords.
26206 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26207 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26208 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26209 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26211 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26212 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26213 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26214 cookie authentication file, and config option
26215 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26216 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26217 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26218 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26220 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26221 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26222 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26223 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26224 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26225 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26226 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26228 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26229 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26231 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26232 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26233 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26234 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26235 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26236 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26237 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26238 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26239 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26240 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26241 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26242 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26243 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26245 o Controller bugfixes:
26246 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26247 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26248 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26249 processes can't run us out of memory.
26250 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26251 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26252 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26254 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26255 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26256 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26257 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26258 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26259 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26260 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26261 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26262 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26263 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26264 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26265 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26266 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26267 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26268 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26270 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26271 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26273 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26274 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26275 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26276 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26277 WARN-severity events.
26279 o Portability / building / compiling:
26280 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26281 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26282 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26283 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26284 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26285 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26286 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26287 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26288 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26289 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26290 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26291 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26292 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26294 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26295 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26296 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26297 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26298 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26299 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26300 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26301 partial results on small file reads.
26302 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26303 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26304 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26305 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26306 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26307 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26309 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26310 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26311 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26312 logging for the unit tests.
26313 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26314 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26316 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26317 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26319 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26320 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26321 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26322 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26325 o Logging improvements:
26326 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26327 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26328 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26329 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26330 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26331 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26332 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26334 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26335 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26336 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26337 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26338 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26339 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26340 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26341 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26342 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26343 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26344 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26345 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26346 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26347 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26348 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26349 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26350 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26351 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26352 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26354 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26355 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26356 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26357 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26359 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26360 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26361 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26362 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26363 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26365 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26366 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26367 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26368 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26369 makes the log messages nicer.
26370 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26371 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26373 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26374 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26375 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26377 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26378 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26379 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26380 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26381 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26382 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26383 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26384 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26385 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26386 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26388 o Newly deprecated features:
26389 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26390 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26391 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26392 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26394 o Removed features:
26395 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26396 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26397 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26398 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26399 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26401 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26402 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26403 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26404 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26405 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26406 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26407 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26408 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26410 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26411 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26412 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26413 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26414 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26415 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26417 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26418 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26419 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26420 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26421 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26422 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26423 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26424 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26425 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26426 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26427 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26428 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26429 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26430 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26434 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26435 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26436 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26437 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26440 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26441 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26442 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26443 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26444 on network address.
26447 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26448 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26449 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26450 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26451 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26452 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26453 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26454 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26455 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26456 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26457 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26458 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26461 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26462 rebuild our server descriptor.
26463 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26464 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26465 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26466 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26467 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26468 nonstandard integer types.
26469 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26470 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26471 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26472 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26473 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26475 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26476 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26477 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26478 when they receive them.
26479 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26480 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26481 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26482 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26483 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26484 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26485 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26486 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26487 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26488 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26492 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26493 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26494 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26495 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26496 lists for a few hours each day.
26498 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26499 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26500 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26501 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26502 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26503 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26504 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26505 rend_process_relay_cell().
26507 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26508 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26509 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26510 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26511 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26512 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26513 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26514 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26516 o Major bugfixes (other):
26517 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26518 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26519 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26520 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26521 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26522 circuit cannibalization).
26523 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26524 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26525 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26526 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26527 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26528 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26531 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26532 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26534 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26535 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26536 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26537 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26538 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26539 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26540 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26541 were reporting the dir port.)
26542 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26543 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26544 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26545 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26546 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26548 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26549 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26550 the onion key from getting rotated.
26551 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26552 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26553 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26554 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26555 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26556 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26557 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26560 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26561 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26562 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26563 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26564 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26567 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26568 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26571 o Major bugfixes (security):
26572 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26573 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26574 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26576 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26577 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26578 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26580 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26581 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26582 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26583 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26584 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26585 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26587 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26588 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26589 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26590 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26591 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26593 o Minor features (controller):
26594 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26595 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26596 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26597 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26599 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26600 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26601 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26602 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26603 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26604 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26605 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26606 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26608 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26609 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26610 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26611 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26612 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26613 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26614 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26615 if we ran off the end of the list.
26616 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26617 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26618 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26619 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26620 every time we change any piece of our config.
26621 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26622 encourage people using them to stop.
26623 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26625 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26626 servers to choose a circuit.
26627 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26628 unparseable piece of it.
26631 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26632 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26633 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26634 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26635 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26636 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26638 o Major security fixes:
26639 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26640 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26643 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26644 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26645 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26646 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26648 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26649 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26651 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26652 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26653 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26654 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26655 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26656 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26657 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26659 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26660 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26661 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26663 o Major bugfixes (security):
26664 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26666 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26667 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26668 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26669 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26670 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26671 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26672 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26673 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26674 guard list unless we need to.
26676 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26677 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26678 don't get overused as guards.
26680 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26681 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26682 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26683 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26684 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26686 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26687 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26688 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26691 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26692 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26693 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26694 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26695 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26696 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26697 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26698 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26701 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26702 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26703 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26704 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26706 o Directory authority changes:
26707 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26708 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26709 or use hidden services.
26711 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26712 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26713 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26714 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26715 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26716 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26717 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26718 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26719 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26722 o Major bugfixes (security):
26723 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26724 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26725 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26727 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26728 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26729 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26730 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26731 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26732 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26733 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26734 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26735 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26736 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26739 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26740 purpose=controller.
26741 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26742 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26744 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26745 having a hard time downloading.
26746 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26747 partial results on small file reads.
26748 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26749 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26750 the gaps in the store get very large.
26753 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26754 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26756 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26757 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26760 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26761 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26762 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26763 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26764 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26765 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26767 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26768 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26769 free speech on the Internet.
26771 o Major features, client performance:
26772 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26773 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26774 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26775 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26776 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26777 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26778 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26779 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26780 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26781 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26782 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26783 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26784 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26785 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26786 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26788 o Major features, client functionality:
26789 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26790 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26791 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26792 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26793 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26794 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26795 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26796 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26797 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26798 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26799 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26800 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26801 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26803 o Major features, servers:
26804 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26805 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26806 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26807 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26808 authenticated, so use with care.
26809 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26810 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26811 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26813 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26814 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26815 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26816 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26817 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26818 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26820 o Improvements on DNS support:
26821 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26822 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26823 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26824 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26825 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26826 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26827 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26828 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26829 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26830 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26831 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26832 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26833 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26834 lets you turn it off.
26835 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26836 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26837 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26838 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26839 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26840 useful to the network.
26841 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26842 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26843 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26844 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26845 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26846 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26848 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26849 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26850 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26851 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26852 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26853 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26854 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26855 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26856 if their identity keys are as expected.
26857 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26858 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26859 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26860 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26861 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26862 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26863 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26864 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26865 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26866 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26867 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26868 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26869 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26870 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26872 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26873 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26874 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26875 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26876 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26877 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26879 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26880 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26881 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26882 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26883 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26884 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26885 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26886 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26888 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26889 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26891 o Major features, NT services:
26892 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26893 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26894 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26895 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26896 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26897 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26898 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26900 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26901 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26902 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26904 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26905 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26906 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26908 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26909 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26911 o Directory authority improvements:
26912 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26914 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26915 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26916 too much load to the exit nodes.
26917 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26918 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26919 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26920 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26921 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26922 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26923 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26924 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26925 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26926 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26927 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26928 broken. Not used yet.
26929 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26930 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26931 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26932 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26933 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26934 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26935 non-versioning dirservers.
26936 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26937 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26938 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26940 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26941 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26942 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26943 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26945 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26946 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26947 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26948 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26949 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26950 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26951 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26952 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26953 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26954 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26955 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26956 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26957 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26958 routers for even longer.
26959 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26960 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26961 caching HTTP proxies.
26962 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26963 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26964 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26965 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26967 o Major fixes, crashes:
26968 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26969 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26970 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
26971 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
26973 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26974 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
26975 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
26976 stream is detached.
26977 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26978 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26979 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26980 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26981 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26982 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26983 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26984 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26985 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26986 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26988 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
26989 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26990 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
26991 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
26992 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
26993 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26994 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26995 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26996 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26997 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26998 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
26999 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27000 could return an unnamed server instead.
27001 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27002 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27003 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27004 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27005 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27006 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27007 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27009 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27010 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27012 o Major fixes, other:
27013 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27014 uptime in the descriptor.
27015 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27016 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27017 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27018 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27019 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27020 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27021 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27022 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27023 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27024 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27025 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27026 our DirPort now, etc.
27027 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27028 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27029 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27031 o New config options or behaviors:
27032 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27033 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27034 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27035 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27036 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27037 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27038 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27039 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27040 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27041 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27042 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27043 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27045 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27046 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27047 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27048 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27049 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27051 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27052 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27053 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27054 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27055 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27056 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27057 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27058 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27059 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27060 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27061 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27062 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27063 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27064 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27065 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27066 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27067 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27068 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27069 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27070 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27071 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27072 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27073 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27074 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27075 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27076 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27077 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27078 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27079 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27080 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27082 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27083 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27084 your ORPort is set.
27087 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27088 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27090 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27091 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27092 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27093 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27095 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27096 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27097 whether the config options are bad or good.
27098 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27099 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27100 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27101 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27102 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27103 result more than once.
27104 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27105 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27106 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27107 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27108 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27109 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27110 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27111 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27112 before we check for libevent.
27113 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27114 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27115 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27116 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27117 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27118 recommendation system saner.)
27119 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27120 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27121 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27122 now universal binaries.
27123 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27124 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27126 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27128 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27129 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27130 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27131 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27132 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27133 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27135 o Minor features, controller:
27136 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27137 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27138 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27140 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27141 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27142 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27143 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27144 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27145 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27146 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27148 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27149 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27150 connected or resolved cell.
27151 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27152 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27153 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27154 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27155 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27156 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27157 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27159 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27160 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27161 entry guard status as it changes.
27162 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27163 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27164 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27165 watching for STREAM events.
27166 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27167 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27168 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27169 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27171 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27172 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27173 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27174 working much like those for circuit events.
27175 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27176 about the current status of a router.
27177 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27178 a router's status has changed.
27179 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27180 can tell which events and features are supported.
27181 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27182 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27183 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27184 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27185 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27186 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27187 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27188 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27189 for more information.
27190 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27191 best guess to the user.
27192 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27193 descriptor has changed.
27194 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27195 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27196 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27198 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27199 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27200 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27201 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27202 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27203 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27204 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27205 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27206 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27207 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27208 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27210 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27211 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27213 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27214 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27215 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27217 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27218 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27219 the controller from learning about current events.
27220 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27221 reported by Mike Perry.
27222 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27223 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27224 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27225 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27226 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27227 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27228 long nicknames where appropriate.
27229 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27230 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27232 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27233 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27234 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27235 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27236 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27238 o Minor features, code performance:
27239 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27240 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27241 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27243 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27244 some profiles, but not others.)
27245 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27246 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27247 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27248 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27249 operations, for profiling.
27250 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27251 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27252 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27253 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27254 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27255 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27256 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27257 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27259 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27260 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27261 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27262 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27263 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27264 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27265 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27266 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27267 family lists conveniently.
27269 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27270 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27271 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27272 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27273 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27274 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27275 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27276 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27277 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27278 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27279 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27280 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27281 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27282 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27283 of it), is not therefore "up".
27285 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27286 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27287 what version a router is running.
27288 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27289 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27290 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27291 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27293 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27294 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27295 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27296 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27297 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27300 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27301 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27302 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27304 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27305 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27307 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27308 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27309 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27310 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27311 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27312 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27313 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27314 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27315 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27316 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27318 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27319 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27320 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27321 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27322 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27323 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27324 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27325 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27326 get one we don't recognize.
27329 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27330 o Security bugfixes:
27331 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27332 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27333 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27334 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27338 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27339 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27340 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27343 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27345 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27346 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27347 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27348 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27349 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27350 its circuits on demand.
27351 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27352 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27353 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27354 connections more stable on average.
27355 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27356 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27357 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27359 o Security bugfixes:
27360 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27361 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27364 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27366 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27367 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27368 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27369 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27370 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27371 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27372 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27373 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27376 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27378 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27379 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27380 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27381 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27382 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27383 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27384 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27385 it can't resolve its hostname.
27386 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27387 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27388 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27391 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27392 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27393 "extendcircuit" request.
27394 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27395 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27396 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27397 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27399 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27400 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27401 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27403 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27404 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27405 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27406 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27407 we don't recognize.
27410 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27412 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27413 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27414 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27415 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27416 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27417 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27418 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27419 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27420 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27423 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27424 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27425 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27426 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27427 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27429 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27430 own server descriptor yet.
27433 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27435 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27436 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27437 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27438 make sure to test via one of these.
27439 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27440 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27441 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27442 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27443 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27445 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27446 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27447 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27450 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27451 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27452 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27453 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27454 directory authority.
27455 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27456 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27457 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27458 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27461 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27462 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27463 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27465 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27466 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27467 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27468 current guards when picking a new guard.
27469 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27470 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27471 when we had more than one pending.
27472 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27473 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27474 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27475 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27476 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27477 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27478 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27479 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27480 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27481 debug the reachability problems better.
27483 o Log / documentation fixes:
27484 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27485 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27486 about protocol violations by others.
27487 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27488 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27489 about what happened to our old torrc.
27492 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27493 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27494 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27495 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27496 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27497 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27499 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27500 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27501 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27502 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27503 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27504 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27505 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27506 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27507 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27508 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27509 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27510 on malicious huge inputs.
27512 o Security fixes, major:
27513 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27514 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27515 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27516 misreading their logs.
27517 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27518 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27519 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27520 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27521 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27522 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27523 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27524 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27525 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27526 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27527 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27528 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27529 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27530 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27532 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27533 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27534 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27535 firewall options forbid.
27536 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27537 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27538 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27539 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27540 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27541 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27543 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27544 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27545 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27546 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27547 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27548 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27549 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27550 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27551 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27552 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27553 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27554 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27555 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27557 o Security fixes, minor:
27558 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27559 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27561 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27562 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27563 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27564 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27565 if we've not heard of a server.
27566 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27567 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27568 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27569 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27570 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27571 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27572 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27573 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27574 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27575 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27576 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27577 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27578 aids some statistical attacks.
27579 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27580 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27581 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27582 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27583 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27584 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27585 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27586 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27589 o Packaging improvements:
27590 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27591 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27592 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27593 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27594 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27595 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27597 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27598 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27599 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27600 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27601 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27602 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27604 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27605 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27606 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27608 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27609 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27610 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27611 They are useless now.
27612 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27613 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27614 is reachable by you.
27615 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27618 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27619 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27620 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27621 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27622 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27623 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27624 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27625 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27626 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27627 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27628 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27629 and isolating attacks better.
27630 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27631 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27632 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27633 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27634 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27635 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27636 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27637 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27638 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27639 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27640 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27642 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27643 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27644 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27645 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27646 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27647 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27648 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27649 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27650 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27651 for clients and for servers.
27652 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27653 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27654 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27655 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27656 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27657 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27658 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27659 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27660 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27661 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27662 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27664 o Other directory improvements:
27665 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27666 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27667 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27668 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27669 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27670 to hang up on them.
27671 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27672 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27673 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27674 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27675 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27676 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27678 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27679 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27680 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27681 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27682 connections more reliable.
27683 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27684 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27685 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27686 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27687 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27688 we fail to connect).
27689 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27691 o Controller protocol improvements:
27692 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27693 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27694 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27695 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27696 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27697 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27698 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27699 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27700 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27701 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27702 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27703 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27704 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27705 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27706 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27707 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27708 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27709 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27710 or "signal reload".
27711 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27712 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27713 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27714 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27715 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27716 a router in its role as directory authority.
27717 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27718 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27719 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27720 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27721 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27722 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27723 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27724 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27725 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27726 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27727 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27728 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27729 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27730 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27731 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27732 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27733 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27734 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27736 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27737 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27738 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27739 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27740 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27741 just tell them to go read their logs.
27743 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27744 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27745 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27746 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27747 try to be a bit more fair.
27748 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27749 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27750 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27751 and we're using a default DirPort.
27752 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27753 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27754 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27755 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27756 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27757 services faster on the service end.
27758 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27760 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27761 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27762 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27763 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27764 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27765 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27766 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27767 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27768 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27769 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27770 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27771 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27772 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27773 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27774 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27775 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27776 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27777 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27778 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27779 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27780 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27781 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27782 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27783 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27784 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27786 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27787 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27788 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27789 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27790 so we can be backward-compatible.
27791 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27792 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27793 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27794 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27795 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27796 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27797 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27798 initial descriptor forever.
27799 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27800 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27801 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27802 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27803 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27804 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27805 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27806 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27807 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27808 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27809 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27810 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27811 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27812 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27813 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27814 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27815 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27816 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27817 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27818 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27819 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27820 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27821 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27822 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27823 ports that have changed.
27824 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27825 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27826 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27827 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27828 connections once a week.
27829 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27830 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27831 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27832 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27833 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27834 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27835 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27836 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27837 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27838 able to discover them.
27839 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27840 want to make it an NT service.
27841 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27842 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27843 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27844 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27845 memory leaks better.
27846 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27847 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27848 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27849 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27850 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27851 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27852 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27853 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27854 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27855 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27856 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27857 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27858 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27859 and its existence is confusing some users.
27861 o Config option fixes:
27862 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27863 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27864 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27865 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27866 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27867 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27868 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27869 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27870 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27872 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27873 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27874 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27875 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27876 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27877 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27878 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27879 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27880 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27881 silently resetting it to its default.
27882 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27883 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27884 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27885 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27886 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27887 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27888 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27889 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27890 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27891 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27892 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27893 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27894 Address config option.
27895 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27896 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27898 o Config option features:
27899 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27900 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27901 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27902 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27903 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27905 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27906 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27907 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27908 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27909 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27910 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27911 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27912 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27913 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27914 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27915 in at least some cases.)
27916 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27917 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27918 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27919 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27920 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27921 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27922 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27923 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27924 even if we know they're jerks.
27925 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27926 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27927 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27928 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27929 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27930 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27931 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27932 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27933 because older Tors do not understand it.
27934 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27935 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27936 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27937 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27938 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27939 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27940 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27941 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27942 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27943 unattached before we fail it?
27944 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27945 at least this many seconds ago.
27946 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27947 at least this many seconds ago.
27948 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27949 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27951 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27952 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27953 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27954 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27956 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27957 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27958 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27959 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27960 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27961 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27962 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27963 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27964 temporarily unreachable.
27965 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27966 Windows-style errno back.
27967 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27968 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27970 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27971 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27972 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
27973 exactly for this case.
27974 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27975 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
27976 don't warn twice about the same name.
27977 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27979 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27980 it was self-testing that told us so.
27981 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27982 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27983 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27984 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27985 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27986 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27987 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27988 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27989 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27990 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
27991 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27992 established a circuit.
27993 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27994 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
27995 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
27996 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
27997 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
27998 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
27999 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28000 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28001 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28002 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28003 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28004 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28005 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28006 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28007 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28008 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28009 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28010 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28011 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28012 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28013 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28014 testing for reachability.
28015 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28016 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28018 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28021 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28022 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28023 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28024 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28026 o Other important bugfixes:
28027 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28028 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28029 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28030 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28032 o Backported features:
28033 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28034 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28035 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28036 without getting overloaded.
28037 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28038 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28039 503's whenever they feel busy.
28040 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28041 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28042 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28043 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28044 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28047 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28048 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28049 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28050 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28051 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28052 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28053 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28054 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28056 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28057 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28058 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28059 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28060 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28061 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28062 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28063 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28064 rendezvous circuits.
28065 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28067 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28068 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28069 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28070 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28071 advertising it because of hibernation.
28072 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28073 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28074 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28075 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28076 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28077 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28078 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28079 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28080 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28081 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28082 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28083 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28084 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28085 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28086 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28089 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28090 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28091 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28092 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28093 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28094 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28095 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28096 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28097 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28098 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28099 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28100 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28101 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28102 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28103 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28106 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28107 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28108 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28110 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28111 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28114 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28115 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28116 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28117 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28118 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28119 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28120 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28122 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28123 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28127 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28128 o New directory servers:
28129 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28131 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28132 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28133 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28134 pthreads libraries.
28135 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28136 claims its dirport is 0.
28137 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28138 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28142 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28143 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28144 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28145 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28146 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28147 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28148 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28149 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28152 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28154 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28155 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28156 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28157 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28158 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28159 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28160 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28161 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28162 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28164 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28165 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28167 o Assert / crash bugs:
28168 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28169 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28170 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28172 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28173 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28174 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28175 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28176 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28179 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28180 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28181 duplicate ram over time.
28182 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28183 reentry and threadsafeness.
28184 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28185 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28186 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28188 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28189 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28190 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28191 point at your Tor server.
28192 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28194 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28195 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28198 o Protocol correctness:
28199 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28200 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28201 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28202 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28203 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28204 to abandon partially built circuits.
28205 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28206 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28207 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28208 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28209 descriptors we just dropped.
28210 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28211 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28212 and to take errno into account where possible.
28213 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28214 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28215 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28216 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28218 o Robustness improvements:
28219 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28220 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28221 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28223 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28224 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28225 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28226 that will want high uptime circuits.
28227 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28228 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28229 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28230 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28231 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28232 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28233 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28234 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28235 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28236 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28237 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28238 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28239 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28240 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28241 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28242 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28243 for google.com" problem.
28244 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28245 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28246 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28247 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28248 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28251 o Reachability testing.
28252 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28253 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28254 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28255 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28256 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28257 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28258 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28259 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28260 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28261 already connected to them.
28262 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28266 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28267 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28268 nickname+key are allowed.
28269 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28270 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28271 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28272 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28273 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28274 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28275 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28276 have quite wrong clocks).
28277 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28278 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28279 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28280 their descriptors are being rejected.
28282 o Efficiency improvements:
28283 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28284 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28285 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28286 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28287 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28288 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28289 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28290 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28291 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28292 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28294 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28295 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28296 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28297 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28298 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28299 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28300 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28301 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28302 of CPU time plus memory.
28303 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28304 directory every time you regenerate it.
28305 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28306 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28307 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28308 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28309 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28310 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28311 lowercase when you first see them.
28314 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28315 hidden services better.
28316 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28317 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28318 when we try to launch one.
28319 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28320 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28321 attempts to build a circuit.
28322 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28323 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28324 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28325 normal web requests.
28328 - More Tor controller support. See
28329 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28330 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28331 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28332 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28333 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28334 to make it easier to write controllers.
28335 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28336 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28337 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28338 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28339 new log event types.
28341 o New config options/defaults:
28342 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28343 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28344 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28345 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28346 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28348 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28350 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28351 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28352 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28353 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28354 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28356 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28357 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28358 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28359 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28360 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28361 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28362 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28363 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28364 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28365 required exit node for certain sites.
28366 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28367 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28368 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28369 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28370 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28371 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28372 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28373 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28374 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28376 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28377 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28378 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28379 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28380 private-IP addresses.
28381 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28382 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28383 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28384 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28385 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28386 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28387 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28388 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28390 o Logging improvements:
28391 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28392 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28393 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28394 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28396 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28397 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28398 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28399 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28400 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28401 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28402 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28403 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28404 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28406 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28408 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28409 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28410 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28411 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28412 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28413 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28415 o New contrib scripts:
28416 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28417 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28419 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28420 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28421 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28422 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28423 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28424 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28426 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28427 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28428 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28429 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28433 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28434 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28435 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28436 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28437 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28438 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28439 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28441 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28442 something more reasonable when first installing.
28443 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28444 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28445 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28446 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28448 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28449 artificially capped at 500kB.
28450 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28452 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28453 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28454 they could use instead.
28455 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28456 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28457 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28458 the user asks you to.
28461 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28462 rather than just rejecting it.
28463 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28464 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28465 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28466 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28467 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28468 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28469 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28470 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28471 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28472 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28473 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28474 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28476 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28477 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28478 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28479 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28481 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28482 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28484 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28485 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28486 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28487 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28489 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28490 whether the server is hibernating.
28493 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28494 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28495 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28496 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28497 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28501 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28502 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28503 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28504 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28505 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28508 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28509 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28510 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28511 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28512 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28513 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28514 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28517 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28518 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28519 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28520 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28521 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28522 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28523 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28524 creating actual system users.
28525 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28526 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28530 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28531 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28532 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28533 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28534 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28535 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28536 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28537 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28538 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28539 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28540 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28541 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28542 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28543 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28544 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28546 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28547 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28548 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28549 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28550 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28551 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28552 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28553 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28554 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28555 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28556 existing torrc files.
28557 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28560 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28561 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28562 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28563 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28564 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28565 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28566 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28567 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28568 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28569 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28570 file descriptors available.
28571 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28572 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28573 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28576 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28577 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28578 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28579 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28581 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28582 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28583 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28584 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28585 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28587 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28588 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28589 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28590 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28591 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28592 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28593 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28594 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28595 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28596 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28597 800kB/s of capacity.
28598 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28601 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28602 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28603 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28604 need as much processor time.
28605 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28606 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28607 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28608 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28609 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28610 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28611 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28612 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28613 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28614 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28615 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28616 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28618 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28619 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28620 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28621 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28622 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28623 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28624 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28627 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28628 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28629 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28631 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28632 style address, then we'd crash.
28633 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28634 a dirserver is broken.
28635 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28637 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28638 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28639 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28641 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28642 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28643 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28644 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28645 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28646 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28648 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28649 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28650 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28652 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28654 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28655 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28656 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28657 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28658 values at once couldn't work.
28659 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28660 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28661 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28662 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28663 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28664 they can handle any number of routers.
28665 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28666 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28667 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28668 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28669 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28670 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28671 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28672 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28673 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28676 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28677 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28678 - Make hibernation actually work.
28679 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28680 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28681 don't use the stream status code.
28684 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28685 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28686 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28687 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28688 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28689 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28690 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28691 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28692 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28693 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28694 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28695 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28698 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28699 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28700 win32 socket errors better.
28701 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28702 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28703 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28704 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28706 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28708 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28709 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28710 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28711 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28712 right after sending the begin cell.
28713 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28714 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28715 exit nodes too. Oops.
28716 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28717 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28718 the user would get no response.
28719 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28720 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28721 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28723 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28724 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28725 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28726 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28727 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28729 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28730 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28731 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28732 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28733 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28734 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28735 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28736 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28737 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28738 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28739 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28741 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28742 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28743 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28744 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28745 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28746 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28747 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28748 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28749 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28750 so we don't see those messages days later.
28751 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28752 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28754 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28755 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28756 they ran out of file descriptors.
28757 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28758 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28759 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28760 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28762 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28763 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28764 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28765 the ones we find in directories.)
28766 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28767 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28768 if you don't want it open.
28769 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28770 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28771 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28772 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28773 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28774 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28776 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28777 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28779 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28781 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28782 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28784 o Features (circuits and streams):
28785 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28786 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28787 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28788 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28789 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28790 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28791 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28792 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28793 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28794 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28795 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28796 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28797 from Geoff Goodell.
28798 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28800 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28801 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28802 to fill the last cell completely.
28803 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28804 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28806 o Features (bandwidth):
28807 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28808 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28809 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28810 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28811 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28812 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28813 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28814 your billing cycle starts on.
28815 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28816 hibernation properties by
28817 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28818 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28819 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28820 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28821 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28823 o Features (directories):
28824 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28825 nickname to its identity key.
28826 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28827 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28828 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28829 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28830 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28832 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28833 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28835 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28836 will be able to get a directory.
28837 - Http proxy support
28838 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28839 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28840 be routed through this host.
28841 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28842 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28843 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28844 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28845 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28846 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28848 o Features (packages and install):
28849 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28850 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28851 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28852 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28853 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28854 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28855 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28856 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28857 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28858 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28861 o Features (ui controller):
28862 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28863 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28864 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28865 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28866 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28867 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28868 with the control port.
28869 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28870 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28871 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28872 configuration to torrc.
28873 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28874 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28875 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28877 o Features (config and command-line):
28878 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28879 not on the command line.
28880 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28882 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28883 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28884 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28885 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28886 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28887 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28888 - New log format in config:
28889 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28890 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28891 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28892 from their dirserver.
28893 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28895 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28896 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28897 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28898 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28899 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28900 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28901 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28902 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28903 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28904 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28905 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28906 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28907 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28908 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28909 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28910 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28911 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28912 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28913 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28914 than once per minute.
28916 o Features (other):
28917 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28918 get back to normal.)
28919 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28920 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28921 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28922 log more informatively.
28923 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28924 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28925 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28926 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28927 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28928 them act more like real nodes.
28929 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28930 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28931 1024) file descriptors.
28932 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28935 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28937 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28938 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28939 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28940 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28941 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28942 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28943 intermittent connections.
28944 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28945 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28947 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28948 in reporting stats locally.
28949 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28950 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28951 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28954 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28956 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28957 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28958 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28959 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28960 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28961 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28962 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28963 list to decide who's running.
28964 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28965 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28966 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28967 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28968 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28969 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28970 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28971 for pointing out this bug.)
28972 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28974 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28975 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28976 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
28977 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
28978 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
28980 o Protocol changes:
28981 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28982 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28983 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28984 hadn't heard of before.
28987 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28988 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28989 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28990 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28991 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28992 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28993 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28994 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28995 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
28996 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
28997 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
28998 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
28999 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29000 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29001 - Directory caching.
29002 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29003 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29004 directory they've pulled down.
29005 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29006 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29007 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29008 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29009 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29010 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29011 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29013 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29014 This isn't used yet.
29015 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29016 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29017 clients don't use this yet.)
29018 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29019 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29020 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29021 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29022 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29023 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29024 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29025 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29026 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29027 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29028 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29029 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29030 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29031 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29032 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29033 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29034 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29035 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29036 - File and name management:
29037 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29038 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29040 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29041 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29042 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29043 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29044 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29045 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29046 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29048 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29049 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29050 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29052 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29053 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29054 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29055 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29056 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29057 - New docs in the tarball:
29059 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29060 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29061 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29062 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29063 know you might want to get it verified.
29064 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29065 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29066 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29067 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29068 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29069 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29070 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29071 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29072 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29074 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29076 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29077 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29079 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29080 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29081 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29084 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29085 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29086 ask them to resolve the host "".
29089 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29090 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29091 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29094 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29095 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29096 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29099 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29100 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29101 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29102 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29104 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29105 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29106 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29108 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29109 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29110 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29111 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29112 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29113 o Fixes for security bugs:
29114 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29115 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29116 a trusted dirserver.
29118 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29119 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29120 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29121 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29122 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29123 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29124 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29125 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29126 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29127 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29129 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29130 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29131 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29132 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29133 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29134 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29136 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29139 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29140 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29141 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29142 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29143 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29144 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29145 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29146 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29147 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29148 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29149 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29150 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29151 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29152 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29155 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29156 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29157 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29158 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29161 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29162 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29163 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29164 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29165 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29166 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29167 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29171 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29173 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29174 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29175 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29176 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29177 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29178 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29179 if you decrypted them correctly.
29180 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29181 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29182 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29183 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29184 in-memory directories too.
29185 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29186 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29187 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29188 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29189 just close the circ.
29190 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29191 - Better debugging for tls errors
29192 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29193 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29195 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29196 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29197 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29198 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29199 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29200 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29201 it tells you about the first error.
29202 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29203 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29204 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29205 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29206 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29207 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29208 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29209 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29210 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29211 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29213 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29214 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29217 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29218 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29220 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29221 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29222 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29223 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29224 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29225 expect it to have a nickname.
29226 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29227 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29228 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29229 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29230 the dns farm to do it.
29231 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29232 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29234 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29235 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29236 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29237 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29238 but that aren't warnings
29241 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29242 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29246 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29247 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29248 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29249 - include missing header fcntl.h
29250 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29251 - deal with hardware word alignment
29252 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29253 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29254 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29255 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29256 by kill -USR1 currently.
29257 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29258 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29259 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29262 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29263 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29264 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29267 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29269 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29270 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29271 - And fix a few endian issues.
29274 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29276 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29277 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29278 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29279 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29280 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29281 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29282 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29283 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29285 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29286 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29287 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29289 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29291 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29292 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29293 side isn't reading right then.
29294 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29295 RecommendedVersions
29296 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29297 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29298 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29301 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29303 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29304 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29307 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29311 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29313 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29314 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29315 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29316 connection is finished.
29317 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29318 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29319 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29320 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29321 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29322 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29323 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29324 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29325 rather than warn and continue.
29326 - Make --version work
29327 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29330 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29332 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29333 knows it's working.
29334 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29335 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29337 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29338 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29339 so you can collect coredumps there.
29341 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29342 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29343 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29344 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29345 dns cache actually gets populated.
29346 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29347 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29348 end cell down it first.
29349 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29350 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29353 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29355 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29356 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29358 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29359 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29360 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29361 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29362 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29363 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29365 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29367 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29368 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29369 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29370 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29371 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29372 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29374 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29375 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29378 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29380 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29381 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29382 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29383 tor. It even has a man page.
29384 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29385 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29386 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29387 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29389 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29391 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29394 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29396 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29397 it, apt-getters. :)
29398 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29399 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29400 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29401 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29402 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29403 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29404 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29405 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29406 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29407 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29408 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29410 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29411 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29414 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29416 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29417 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29420 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29422 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29423 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29424 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29425 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29426 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29427 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29428 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29429 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29430 logfile so you know it's working.
29431 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29432 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29435 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29437 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29438 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29439 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29442 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29444 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29445 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29446 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29449 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29450 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29451 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29453 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29454 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29456 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29457 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29458 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29460 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29461 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29465 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29467 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29468 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29469 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29472 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29473 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29474 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29475 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29476 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29477 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29478 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29479 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29480 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29481 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29483 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29486 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29487 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29488 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29489 really screw things up.
29490 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29492 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29493 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29495 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29496 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29497 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29498 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29499 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29500 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29503 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29506 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29507 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29508 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29510 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29513 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29514 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29515 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29516 - to get ownership/permissions right
29517 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29518 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29519 pull down a directory again
29520 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29521 causing server crashes
29522 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29523 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29524 - exit if bind() fails
29525 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29526 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29527 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29528 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29529 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29532 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29534 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29535 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29537 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29538 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29539 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29540 exists, rather than failing
29541 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29542 which AP connections are standing by
29543 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29544 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29545 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29547 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29548 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29551 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29552 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29554 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29555 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29556 - Reloads config on HUP
29557 - Usage info on -h or --help
29558 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29560 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29561 o General stability:
29562 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29563 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29564 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29565 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29566 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29567 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29568 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29571 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29572 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29574 o Autoconf improvements:
29575 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29576 - Make install now works
29577 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29578 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29579 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29581 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29582 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29583 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29584 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup