1 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-1?-??
3 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
4 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since 2004.
7 - Directory authorities now decide whether routers are stable enough to
8 be guards based not on their MTBF or their uptime, but on their
9 fractional uptime: the fraction of the time that they are online.
10 - Clients new hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
11 MaxCircuitDirtiness, since it is likely that they'll need to build
12 a circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously, they held them
13 open only for KeepalivePeriod.
16 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
18 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
20 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
23 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
24 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes Bug 536
25 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
27 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus. Bugfix
29 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
30 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
32 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
37 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
38 o Major features (directory system):
39 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
40 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
41 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
42 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
43 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
44 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
45 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
46 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
47 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
48 - If the consensus list a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
49 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
50 Partially implements proposal 122.
51 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
52 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
55 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
56 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
57 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
58 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
60 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
61 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
62 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
63 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
64 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
65 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
66 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
67 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
68 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
70 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
71 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
73 - Allow certificates to include an address.
74 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
75 and download operations.
76 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
77 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
78 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
79 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
80 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
81 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
83 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
84 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
87 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
88 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
89 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
90 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
92 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
93 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
94 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
96 o Minor features (performance):
97 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
98 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
99 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
100 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
101 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
102 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
103 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
106 o Minor features (compilation):
107 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
108 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
110 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
111 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
112 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
113 stick around indefinitely.
114 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
116 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
117 v3 directory authority.
118 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
119 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
121 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
122 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
123 "moria on moria:9031."
124 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
125 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
126 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
127 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
128 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
129 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
130 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
131 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
133 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
134 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
135 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
136 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
137 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
138 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
139 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
140 downloads than for other types.
142 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
143 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
145 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
146 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
147 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
149 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
150 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
151 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
152 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
153 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
154 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
155 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
156 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
158 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
159 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
160 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
161 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
162 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
163 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
164 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
165 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
166 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
167 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
168 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
170 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
171 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
174 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
175 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
176 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
177 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
178 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
179 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
180 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
181 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
182 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
183 so that they all take the same named flags.
186 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
187 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
188 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
191 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
192 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
193 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
194 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
195 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
196 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
198 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
199 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
200 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
201 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
202 annotations along with descriptors.
203 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
204 source, and its purpose.
205 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
207 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
208 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
209 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
210 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
213 o Major features (directory authorities):
214 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
216 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
217 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
218 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
219 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
220 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
221 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
223 o Major features (v3 directory system):
224 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
225 and download the descriptors listed in them.
226 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
227 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
228 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
230 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
231 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
232 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
233 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
236 o Major bugfixes (performance):
237 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
238 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
239 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
240 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
242 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
243 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
244 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
245 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
246 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
247 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
249 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
250 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
252 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
253 certificate is requested.
254 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
255 certificate requests.
257 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
258 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
259 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
260 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
263 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
264 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
265 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
266 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
268 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
269 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
271 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
272 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
273 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
274 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
275 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
276 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
277 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
278 downloads more sensible.
279 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
280 another when serving certificates.
282 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
283 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
284 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
285 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
287 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
288 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
289 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
291 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
292 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
294 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
295 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
296 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
297 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
298 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
300 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
301 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
302 WARN-severity events.
303 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
304 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
305 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
307 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
308 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
309 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
311 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
312 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
313 circuit cannibalization).
315 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
316 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
317 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
318 new module, networkstatus.c.
319 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
320 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
321 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
322 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
323 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
324 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
325 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
326 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
327 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
329 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
331 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
332 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
335 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
336 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
337 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
338 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
340 o New directory authorities:
341 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
342 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
344 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
345 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
346 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
348 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
349 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
350 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
351 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
352 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
353 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
354 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
355 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
356 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
357 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
358 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
360 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
361 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
362 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
363 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
364 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
365 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
366 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
367 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
368 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
370 o Minor features (security):
371 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
372 address maps to an internal address space.
373 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
374 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
376 o Minor features (guard nodes):
377 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
378 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
379 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
380 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
382 o Minor features (speed):
383 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
384 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
385 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
386 on big-endian hosts.)
388 o Minor features (controller):
389 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
390 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
391 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
392 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
396 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
397 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
398 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
399 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
400 implementation of proposal 104.
401 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
402 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
403 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
404 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
405 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
406 patch from Karsten Loesing.
407 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
408 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
411 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
412 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
413 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
414 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
415 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
416 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
417 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
418 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
419 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
420 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
421 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
422 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
423 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
424 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
425 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
426 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
427 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
428 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
429 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
430 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
432 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
433 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
434 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
436 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
437 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
438 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
439 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
442 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
443 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
444 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
445 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
446 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
449 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
450 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
453 o Major bugfixes (security):
454 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
455 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
456 become more of a headache than it's worth.
458 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
459 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
460 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
462 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
463 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
464 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
465 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
466 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
467 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
469 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
470 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
471 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
472 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
473 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
475 o Minor features (controller):
476 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
477 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
478 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
479 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
481 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
482 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
483 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
484 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
485 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
486 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
487 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
488 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
490 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
491 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
492 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
493 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
494 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
495 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
496 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
497 if we ran off the end of the list.
498 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
499 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
500 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
501 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
502 every time we change any piece of our config.
503 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
504 encourage people using them to stop.
505 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
507 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
508 servers to choose a circuit.
509 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
510 unparseable piece of it.
513 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
514 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
515 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
516 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
519 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
520 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
521 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
522 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
523 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
525 o New directory authorities:
526 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
529 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
530 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
531 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
532 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
534 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
535 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
536 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
538 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
539 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
540 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
541 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
542 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
543 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
545 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
546 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
547 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
550 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
551 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
552 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
553 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
557 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
558 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
559 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
560 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
562 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
563 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
565 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
566 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
567 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
568 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
569 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
570 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
571 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
572 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
573 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
574 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
577 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
578 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
579 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
580 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
581 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
582 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
585 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
586 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
587 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
588 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
591 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
592 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
593 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
594 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
595 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
598 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
599 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
600 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
601 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
602 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
605 o Minor features (directory servers):
606 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
607 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
609 o Minor features (directory voting):
610 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
613 o Minor features (security):
614 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
615 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
616 encourage people using them to stop.
618 o Minor features (controller):
619 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
620 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
621 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
622 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
623 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
624 cookie authentication file, and config option
625 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
627 o Minor features (unit testing):
628 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
629 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
630 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
631 logging for the unit tests.
633 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
634 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
635 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
636 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
637 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
638 every time we change any piece of our config.
639 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
640 the future. Fixes bug 434.
641 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
643 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
644 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
645 the onion key from getting rotated.
646 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
647 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
648 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
652 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
653 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
655 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
656 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
657 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
658 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
661 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
662 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
663 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
664 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
665 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
668 o Major security fixes:
669 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
670 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
673 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
674 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
675 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
676 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
678 o Major security fixes:
679 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
680 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
682 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
683 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
686 o Minor features (performance):
687 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
688 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
689 performance-intensive.
690 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
691 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
692 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
693 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
694 siightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
695 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
699 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
700 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
701 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
702 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
706 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
707 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
708 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
709 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
710 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
712 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
713 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
714 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
715 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
717 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
718 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
719 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
720 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
721 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
723 o Major features (experimental):
724 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
725 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
726 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
727 handling before it's ready for use.
730 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
731 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
732 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
733 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
734 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
735 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
737 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
738 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
739 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
740 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
741 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
743 o Major bugfixes (directory):
744 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
745 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
747 o Minor features (controller):
748 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
749 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
750 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
752 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
754 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
755 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
757 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
758 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
759 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
760 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
761 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
762 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
763 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
766 o Minor features (misc):
767 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
769 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
770 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
771 the authority identity key.
772 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
774 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
775 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
776 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
779 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
780 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
781 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
782 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
783 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
784 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
785 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
786 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
788 o Performance improvements:
789 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
791 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
792 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
795 o Deprecated and removed features:
796 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
797 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
798 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
799 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
801 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
802 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
803 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
804 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
805 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
806 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
807 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
808 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
809 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
812 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
813 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
814 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
815 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
816 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
818 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
819 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
822 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
823 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
824 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
825 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
826 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
827 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
828 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
829 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
830 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
833 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
834 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
835 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
836 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
838 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
839 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
841 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
842 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
843 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
844 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
845 routerlist while inserting a new router.
846 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
847 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
849 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
850 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
851 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
853 o Major bugfixes (security):
854 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
856 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
857 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
858 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
859 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
860 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
861 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
862 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
863 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
864 guard list unless we need to.
866 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
867 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
868 don't get overused as guards.
870 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
871 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
872 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
873 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
874 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
876 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
877 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
878 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
881 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
882 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
883 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
884 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
885 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
886 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
887 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
888 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
891 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
892 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
893 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
894 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
896 o Minor features (directory):
897 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
898 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
899 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
900 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
902 o Minor build issues:
903 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
904 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
905 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
906 in the tarball, not as "x".
909 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
910 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
911 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
912 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
913 forward on a lot of fronts.
915 o Major features, server usability:
916 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
917 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
918 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
919 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
921 o Major features, client usability:
922 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
923 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
924 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
925 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
926 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
927 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
928 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
929 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
931 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
932 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
933 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
934 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
935 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
936 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
938 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
939 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
940 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
942 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
943 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
944 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
945 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
946 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
948 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
949 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
950 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
951 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
953 o Major features, other:
954 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
955 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
956 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
957 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
958 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
961 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
962 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
963 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
966 o Minor fixes (resource management):
967 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
968 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
969 our allocated connection limit.
970 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
971 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
972 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
973 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
974 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
976 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
977 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
978 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
980 o Minor features (build):
981 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
982 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
983 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
984 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
986 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
987 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
988 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
989 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
990 Use this version consistently in log messages.
992 o Minor features (logging):
993 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
994 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
995 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
996 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
997 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
1000 o Minor features (directory system):
1001 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
1002 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
1003 not to serve V2 directory information.
1004 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
1005 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
1006 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
1008 o Minor features (controller):
1009 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
1010 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
1012 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
1013 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
1014 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
1015 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
1016 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
1017 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
1019 o Minor features (hidden services):
1020 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
1021 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
1022 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
1023 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
1025 o Minor features (other):
1027 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
1028 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
1029 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
1030 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
1031 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
1032 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
1033 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
1034 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
1035 longer a completely silly thing to do.
1036 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
1037 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
1038 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
1039 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
1042 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
1043 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
1044 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
1045 back an error and close the connection.
1046 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
1047 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
1050 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1051 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
1052 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
1053 makes the log messages nicer.
1054 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
1055 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
1056 partial results on small file reads.
1058 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
1059 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
1060 more often than they are allowed to appear.
1061 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
1062 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
1064 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1065 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
1066 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
1067 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
1069 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1070 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
1071 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
1072 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
1073 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
1074 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
1075 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
1076 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
1077 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
1078 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
1079 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
1081 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
1082 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
1083 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
1085 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
1086 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
1087 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
1088 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
1090 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1091 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
1092 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
1094 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
1095 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
1098 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1099 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
1100 implicit in other procedure arguments.
1101 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
1102 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
1103 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
1104 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
1105 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
1106 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
1107 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
1108 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
1109 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
1112 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
1113 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
1114 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
1115 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
1117 o Directory authority changes:
1118 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
1119 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
1120 or use hidden services.
1122 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1123 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
1124 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
1125 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
1126 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
1127 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
1128 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
1129 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
1130 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
1133 o Major bugfixes (security):
1134 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
1135 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
1136 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
1138 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
1139 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
1140 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
1141 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
1142 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
1143 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
1144 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
1145 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
1146 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
1147 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
1150 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
1152 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
1153 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
1155 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
1156 having a hard time downloading.
1157 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
1158 partial results on small file reads.
1159 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
1160 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
1161 the gaps in the store get very large.
1164 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
1165 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
1167 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
1168 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
1171 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
1172 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
1173 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
1174 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
1175 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
1176 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
1178 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
1179 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
1180 free speech on the Internet.
1183 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
1184 get one we don't recognize.
1185 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
1186 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
1189 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
1191 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
1192 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
1193 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
1194 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
1197 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
1198 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
1201 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
1202 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
1203 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
1204 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
1205 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
1206 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
1210 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
1211 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
1212 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
1213 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
1214 on Win98 and friends again.
1216 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1217 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
1218 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
1221 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
1222 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
1223 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
1224 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
1225 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
1226 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
1227 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
1228 and maybe also bug 397.)
1230 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1231 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
1232 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
1234 o Minor bugfixes (server):
1235 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
1238 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1239 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
1240 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
1241 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
1242 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
1244 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
1245 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
1246 load on authorities.
1248 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1249 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
1250 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
1251 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
1253 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
1255 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
1256 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
1257 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
1258 the last of bug 326.)
1259 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
1260 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
1264 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
1265 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1266 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
1267 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
1268 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
1269 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
1270 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
1272 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
1273 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
1275 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1276 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
1277 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
1279 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
1280 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
1281 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
1283 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1284 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
1285 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
1286 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
1288 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
1289 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
1291 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
1292 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
1293 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
1296 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1297 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
1298 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
1299 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
1300 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
1301 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
1302 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
1303 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
1304 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
1305 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
1306 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
1307 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
1308 other than file-not-found.
1309 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
1310 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
1311 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
1312 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
1313 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
1314 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
1315 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
1316 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
1317 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
1318 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
1319 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
1320 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
1321 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
1322 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
1323 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
1325 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
1327 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
1328 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
1330 o Minor features (controller):
1331 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
1332 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
1333 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
1335 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
1336 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
1337 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
1338 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
1339 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
1340 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
1341 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
1342 connected or resolved cell.
1344 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1345 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
1346 some profiles, but not others.)
1347 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
1348 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
1349 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
1352 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
1354 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
1355 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
1356 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
1357 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
1358 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
1359 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
1360 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
1361 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
1362 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
1363 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
1364 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
1365 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
1366 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
1367 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
1368 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
1370 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
1373 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
1374 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
1375 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
1376 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
1377 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
1378 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
1379 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
1381 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
1382 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
1383 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
1384 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
1385 buckets go absurdly negative.
1386 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
1387 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
1390 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
1391 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
1392 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
1393 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
1394 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
1395 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
1396 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
1397 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
1400 o Major bugfixes (other):
1401 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
1402 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
1403 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
1404 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
1406 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
1408 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
1409 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
1411 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
1412 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
1413 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
1414 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
1415 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
1418 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
1419 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
1420 possible memory-stomping bugs.
1421 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
1422 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
1424 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
1425 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
1426 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
1427 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
1428 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
1429 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
1431 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1432 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
1433 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
1434 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
1436 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
1437 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
1438 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
1439 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
1440 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
1441 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
1442 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
1443 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
1444 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
1445 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
1446 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
1447 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
1448 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
1450 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
1451 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
1452 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
1453 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
1454 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
1455 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
1456 to the resulting address.
1459 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
1460 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
1461 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
1462 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
1465 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
1466 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
1468 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
1469 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
1470 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
1471 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
1472 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
1473 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
1474 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
1475 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
1476 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
1477 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
1478 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
1479 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
1480 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
1481 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
1482 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
1483 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
1484 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
1487 o Minor features (controller):
1488 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
1489 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
1490 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
1491 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
1492 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
1493 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
1494 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
1498 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
1500 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
1501 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
1502 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
1503 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
1504 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
1505 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
1508 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
1509 weren't planning to resolve.
1510 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
1511 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
1512 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
1513 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
1514 the controller from learning about current events.
1516 o Minor features (more controller status events):
1517 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
1518 learn when our address changes.
1519 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
1520 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
1521 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
1522 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
1524 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
1525 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
1526 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
1527 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
1528 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
1529 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
1530 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
1531 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
1532 are accepted by a directory.
1533 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
1534 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
1535 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
1536 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
1537 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
1539 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
1540 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
1541 about changes to DNS server status.
1543 o Minor features (directory):
1544 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
1545 too much load to the exit nodes.
1548 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
1550 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
1551 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
1552 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
1553 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
1554 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
1556 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
1557 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
1558 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
1560 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
1561 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
1562 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
1563 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
1564 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
1565 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
1566 config options if you like.
1568 o Minor features (config and docs):
1569 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
1570 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
1571 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
1572 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
1573 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
1575 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
1576 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
1577 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
1578 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
1579 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
1581 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
1582 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
1583 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
1584 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
1585 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
1586 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
1587 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
1588 documentation: "make check-docs".
1589 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
1590 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
1592 o Minor features (DNS):
1593 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
1594 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
1595 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
1596 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
1597 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
1598 our tests for DNS hijacking.
1600 o Minor features (directory):
1601 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
1602 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
1603 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
1604 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
1605 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
1606 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
1607 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
1608 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
1609 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
1610 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
1611 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
1612 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
1613 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
1614 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
1615 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
1616 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
1617 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
1618 for the thing we're trying to download.
1619 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
1620 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
1621 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
1623 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
1624 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
1625 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
1628 o Minor features (controller):
1629 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
1630 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
1632 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
1633 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
1634 entry guard status as it changes.
1636 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
1637 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
1638 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
1639 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
1641 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
1642 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
1643 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
1644 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
1647 o Major bugfixes (security):
1648 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
1649 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
1650 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
1651 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
1653 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
1654 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
1655 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
1656 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
1657 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
1659 o Major bugfixes (other):
1660 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
1661 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
1662 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
1663 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
1665 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
1666 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
1667 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
1668 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
1669 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
1670 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
1674 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
1675 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
1676 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
1677 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
1678 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
1680 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
1681 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
1683 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
1684 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
1685 family lists conveniently.
1686 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
1687 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
1688 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
1690 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
1691 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
1693 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
1694 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
1695 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
1696 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
1697 if their identity keys are as expected.
1698 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
1699 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
1700 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
1702 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1703 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
1704 reported by Mike Perry.
1705 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
1706 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
1707 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
1708 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
1711 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
1712 o Security bugfixes:
1713 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
1714 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
1715 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
1716 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
1720 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
1721 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
1722 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
1725 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
1727 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
1728 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
1729 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
1732 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
1733 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
1734 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
1735 watching for STREAM events.
1736 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
1737 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
1738 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
1739 operations, for profiling.
1742 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
1743 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
1744 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
1745 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
1746 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
1747 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
1749 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
1753 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
1754 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
1755 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
1756 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
1757 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
1759 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
1760 correctly in the Windows installer.
1761 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
1762 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
1763 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
1765 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
1766 when we're running as a client.
1769 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
1771 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
1772 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
1773 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
1774 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
1775 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
1776 its circuits on demand.
1777 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
1778 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
1779 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
1780 connections more stable on average.
1781 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
1782 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
1783 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
1785 o Security bugfixes:
1786 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
1787 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
1790 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
1792 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
1793 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
1794 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
1795 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
1796 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
1797 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
1798 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
1799 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
1802 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
1804 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
1805 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
1806 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
1807 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
1808 routers for even longer.
1809 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
1810 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
1811 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
1812 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
1813 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
1814 caching HTTP proxies.
1815 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
1818 o Minor features, controller:
1819 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
1820 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
1821 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
1822 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
1824 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
1825 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
1826 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
1827 working much like those for circuit events.
1828 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
1829 about the current status of a router.
1830 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
1831 a router's status has changed.
1832 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
1833 can tell which events and features are supported.
1834 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
1835 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
1837 o Security bugfixes:
1838 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
1839 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
1842 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
1843 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
1844 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
1845 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
1846 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
1847 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
1848 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
1849 long nicknames where appropriate.
1850 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
1851 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
1852 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
1853 chews through many circuits before giving up.
1854 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
1855 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
1856 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
1857 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
1858 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
1859 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
1861 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
1862 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
1863 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
1865 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
1866 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
1867 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
1868 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
1869 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
1870 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
1871 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
1872 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
1873 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
1874 (reported by fookoowa).
1875 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
1876 and reported by some Centos users.
1877 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
1878 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
1879 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
1880 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
1881 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
1882 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
1883 before we check for libevent.
1886 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
1888 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
1889 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
1890 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
1891 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
1892 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
1893 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
1894 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
1895 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
1896 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
1897 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
1898 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
1899 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
1900 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
1901 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
1902 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
1903 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
1904 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
1905 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
1906 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
1907 lets you turn it off.
1908 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
1909 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
1910 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
1911 us into the directory more quickly.
1913 o New/improved config options:
1914 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
1915 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
1916 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
1917 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
1918 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
1919 all the machines on the same subnet.
1920 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
1921 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
1922 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
1923 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
1924 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
1925 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
1926 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
1927 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
1928 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
1929 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
1931 o Minor features, controller:
1932 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
1933 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
1934 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
1935 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
1936 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
1937 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
1938 for more information.
1939 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
1940 best guess to the user.
1941 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
1942 descriptor has changed.
1943 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
1945 o Minor features, other:
1946 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
1947 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
1948 useful to the network.
1949 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
1950 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
1951 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
1952 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
1953 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
1954 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
1955 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
1956 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
1957 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
1958 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
1959 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
1960 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
1961 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
1962 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
1963 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
1965 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
1966 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
1967 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
1968 could return an unnamed server instead.
1969 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
1970 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
1971 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
1972 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
1973 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
1974 a more attractive target for compromise.)
1975 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
1976 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
1977 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
1979 o Major bugfixes, other:
1980 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
1981 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
1982 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
1983 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
1984 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
1985 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
1986 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
1987 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
1988 its circuits on demand.
1989 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
1990 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
1991 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
1992 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
1994 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
1995 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
1996 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
1998 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
2000 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
2001 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
2002 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
2003 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
2004 "extendcircuit" request.
2005 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
2006 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
2007 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
2009 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
2010 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
2011 instead of "X resolved to X".
2012 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
2013 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
2014 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
2015 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
2016 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
2017 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
2018 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
2019 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
2020 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
2022 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
2023 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
2024 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
2025 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
2026 result more than once.
2027 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
2028 non-versioning dirservers.
2029 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
2030 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
2032 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
2033 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
2034 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
2035 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
2036 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
2037 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
2038 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
2039 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
2040 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
2042 o Packaging, features:
2043 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
2044 now universal binaries.
2045 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
2046 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
2047 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
2049 o Packaging, bugfixes:
2050 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
2051 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
2052 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
2053 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
2055 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
2056 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
2057 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
2060 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
2061 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
2062 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
2066 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
2068 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
2069 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
2070 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
2071 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
2072 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
2073 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
2074 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
2075 it can't resolve its hostname.
2078 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
2079 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
2080 "extendcircuit" request.
2081 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
2082 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
2083 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
2084 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
2086 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
2087 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
2088 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
2090 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
2091 methods: these are known to be buggy.
2092 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
2093 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
2097 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
2099 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
2100 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
2101 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
2102 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
2103 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
2104 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
2105 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
2106 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
2107 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
2108 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
2109 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
2110 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
2111 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
2112 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
2113 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
2114 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
2115 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
2116 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
2117 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
2118 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
2119 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
2120 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
2121 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
2122 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
2125 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
2126 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
2127 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
2128 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
2129 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
2130 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
2131 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
2132 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
2133 recommendation system saner.)
2134 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
2136 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
2137 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
2138 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
2139 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
2140 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
2141 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
2142 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
2143 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
2144 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
2145 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
2146 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
2147 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
2149 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
2150 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
2151 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
2152 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
2153 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
2154 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
2155 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
2156 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
2157 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
2158 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
2159 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
2160 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
2162 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
2163 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
2164 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
2165 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
2166 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
2167 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
2170 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
2171 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
2172 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
2173 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
2174 our DirPort now, etc.
2175 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
2176 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
2177 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
2178 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
2179 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
2180 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
2181 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
2183 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
2184 whether the config options are bad or good.
2185 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
2186 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
2187 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
2188 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
2189 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
2190 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
2191 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
2192 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
2195 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
2196 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
2197 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
2198 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
2199 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
2200 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
2201 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
2202 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
2203 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
2204 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
2205 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
2206 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
2207 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
2208 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
2209 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
2210 of it), is not therefore "up".
2211 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
2212 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
2213 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
2214 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
2215 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
2216 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
2219 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
2221 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
2222 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
2223 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
2224 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
2225 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
2226 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
2227 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
2228 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
2229 test reachability, so you won't publish.
2232 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
2233 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
2234 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
2235 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
2236 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
2238 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
2239 own server descriptor yet.
2242 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
2244 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
2245 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
2246 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
2247 make sure to test via one of these.
2248 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
2249 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
2250 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
2251 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
2252 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
2254 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
2255 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
2256 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
2259 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
2260 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
2261 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
2262 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
2263 directory authority.
2264 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
2265 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
2266 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
2267 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
2270 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
2271 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
2272 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
2274 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
2275 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
2276 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
2277 current guards when picking a new guard.
2278 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
2279 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
2280 when we had more than one pending.
2281 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
2282 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
2283 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
2284 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
2285 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
2286 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
2287 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
2288 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
2289 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
2290 debug the reachability problems better.
2292 o Log / documentation fixes:
2293 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
2294 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
2295 about protocol violations by others.
2296 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
2297 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
2298 about what happened to our old torrc.
2301 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
2303 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
2305 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
2306 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
2307 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
2308 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
2311 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
2313 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
2314 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
2315 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
2316 old ORPort and receive connections.
2317 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
2319 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
2320 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
2321 and network-statuses.
2322 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
2323 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
2324 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
2325 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
2327 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
2330 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
2331 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
2332 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
2335 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
2337 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
2338 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
2339 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
2340 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
2341 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
2344 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
2345 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
2347 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
2348 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
2349 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
2350 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
2351 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
2352 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
2353 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
2354 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
2355 rather than not sending anything back at all.
2356 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
2357 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
2358 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
2359 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
2360 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
2361 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
2362 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
2363 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
2364 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
2365 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
2366 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
2367 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
2368 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
2369 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
2370 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
2371 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
2372 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
2373 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
2374 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
2375 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
2376 default ulimit -n is 1024.
2379 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
2380 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
2381 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
2382 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
2385 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
2387 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
2388 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
2389 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
2390 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
2391 entry guards running these flawed versions.
2392 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
2393 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
2394 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
2395 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
2396 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
2399 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
2400 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
2402 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
2403 and it is confusing some users.
2404 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
2405 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
2406 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
2407 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
2408 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
2411 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
2413 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
2414 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
2415 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
2416 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
2417 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
2418 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
2419 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
2420 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
2421 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
2422 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
2423 dirport is set for now.
2425 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
2426 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
2427 unattached before we fail it?
2428 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
2429 at least this many seconds ago.
2430 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
2431 at least this many seconds ago.
2434 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
2435 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
2436 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
2437 or resolve-wait stream.
2438 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
2439 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
2440 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
2441 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
2442 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
2443 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
2444 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
2445 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
2447 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
2448 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
2449 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
2450 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
2451 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
2452 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
2453 given as hex digests.
2454 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
2455 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
2456 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
2457 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
2458 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
2459 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
2460 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
2461 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
2464 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2465 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
2466 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
2467 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
2468 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
2469 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
2470 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
2471 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
2472 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
2473 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
2474 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
2477 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
2478 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
2479 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
2480 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
2481 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
2482 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
2483 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
2486 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
2487 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
2488 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
2489 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
2490 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
2491 misreading their logs.
2492 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
2493 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
2494 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
2495 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
2496 valid router descriptors.
2497 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
2498 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
2499 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
2500 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
2501 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
2502 silently resetting it to its default.
2503 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
2505 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
2508 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
2510 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
2511 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
2512 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
2513 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
2514 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
2516 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
2517 because older Tors do not understand it.
2518 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
2522 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
2523 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2524 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
2525 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
2526 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
2527 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
2528 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
2529 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
2530 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
2531 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
2532 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
2534 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
2535 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
2536 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
2537 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
2539 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
2540 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
2543 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
2544 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
2545 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
2546 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
2547 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
2548 without getting overloaded.
2549 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
2551 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
2552 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
2553 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
2554 be forward-compatible.
2555 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
2556 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
2557 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
2558 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
2560 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
2561 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
2562 and OR conns to port 443.
2563 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
2564 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
2566 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
2567 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
2568 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
2569 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
2570 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
2571 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
2572 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
2575 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
2576 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2577 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
2578 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
2580 o Other important bugfixes:
2581 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
2582 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
2583 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
2584 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
2586 o Backported features:
2587 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
2588 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
2589 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
2590 without getting overloaded.
2591 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
2592 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
2593 503's whenever they feel busy.
2594 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
2595 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
2596 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
2597 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
2598 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
2601 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
2602 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
2603 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
2604 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
2605 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
2606 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
2607 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
2608 know if the crashes continue.
2609 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
2610 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
2611 seg faults in at least some cases.)
2612 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
2613 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
2614 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
2617 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
2618 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
2619 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
2620 try to be a bit more fair.
2621 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
2622 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
2623 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
2624 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
2625 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
2626 bug that let it go negative.
2627 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
2628 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
2629 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
2630 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
2631 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
2632 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
2633 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
2634 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
2635 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
2636 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
2637 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
2640 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
2642 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
2643 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
2644 service descriptors.
2647 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
2648 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
2649 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
2650 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
2652 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
2653 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
2654 versions *are* still recommended.
2655 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
2656 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
2657 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
2658 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
2659 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
2660 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
2661 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
2662 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
2664 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
2665 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
2666 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
2667 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
2668 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
2669 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
2670 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
2671 on it. Not used by clients yet.
2672 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
2673 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
2674 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
2675 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
2676 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
2677 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
2678 established a circuit.
2679 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
2680 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
2681 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
2682 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
2685 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
2686 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2687 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
2688 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
2689 quickly enough. Oops.
2690 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
2692 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2693 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
2696 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
2697 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
2698 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
2699 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
2700 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
2701 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
2702 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
2703 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
2704 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
2705 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
2706 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
2707 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
2708 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
2709 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
2710 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
2711 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
2712 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
2715 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
2716 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
2717 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
2718 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
2719 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
2720 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
2721 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
2722 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
2723 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
2724 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
2725 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
2726 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
2727 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
2728 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
2729 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
2730 connections more reliable.
2733 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
2734 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
2735 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
2736 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
2737 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
2738 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
2739 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
2740 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
2741 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
2742 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
2743 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
2744 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
2745 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
2746 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
2750 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
2751 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
2752 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
2753 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
2754 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
2755 need to be uint64_t's.
2756 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
2757 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
2758 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
2760 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
2762 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
2763 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
2764 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
2765 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
2766 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
2767 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
2768 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
2770 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
2771 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
2772 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
2773 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
2774 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
2775 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
2776 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
2777 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
2778 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
2779 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
2780 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
2781 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
2782 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
2785 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
2786 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
2787 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
2788 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
2789 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
2790 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
2791 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
2793 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
2794 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
2795 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
2796 can answer v2 directory requests too.
2797 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
2798 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
2799 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
2800 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
2802 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
2803 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
2804 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
2805 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
2806 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
2807 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
2808 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
2809 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
2810 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
2811 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
2812 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
2813 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
2814 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
2815 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
2816 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
2818 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
2819 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
2822 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
2823 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2824 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
2825 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
2826 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
2827 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
2828 too -- so detect and avoid this.
2829 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
2831 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
2832 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
2833 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
2834 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
2835 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
2836 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
2837 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
2838 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
2839 rendezvous circuits.
2840 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
2842 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2843 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
2844 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
2845 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
2846 advertising it because of hibernation.
2847 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
2848 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
2849 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
2850 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
2851 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
2852 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
2853 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
2854 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
2855 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
2856 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
2857 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
2858 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
2859 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
2860 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
2863 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
2864 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2865 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
2866 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
2867 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
2868 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
2869 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
2870 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
2871 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
2872 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
2873 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
2874 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
2875 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
2876 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
2877 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
2878 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
2879 connections once a week.
2880 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
2881 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
2882 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
2883 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
2884 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
2885 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
2887 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
2888 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
2889 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
2891 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
2892 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
2893 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
2894 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
2895 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
2896 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
2897 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
2898 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
2899 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
2900 firewall options forbid.
2901 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
2902 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
2903 can only proxy to certain destinations.
2904 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
2905 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
2906 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
2907 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
2908 aids some statistical attacks.
2909 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
2910 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
2911 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
2912 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
2914 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
2915 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
2916 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
2917 server descriptor sometimes.
2918 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
2919 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
2920 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
2921 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
2922 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
2923 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
2924 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
2925 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
2927 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
2928 case the controller wants to change that too.
2929 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
2930 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
2931 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
2932 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
2934 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
2935 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
2936 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
2938 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
2939 descriptors that they know they will reject.
2941 o Features and updates:
2942 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
2943 significantly faster.
2944 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
2945 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
2946 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
2947 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
2948 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
2949 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
2950 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
2951 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
2952 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
2953 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
2954 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
2955 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
2956 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
2957 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
2958 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
2959 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
2960 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
2961 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
2962 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
2963 as authoritative dirserver.
2964 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
2965 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
2966 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
2969 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
2970 o Usability improvements:
2971 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
2972 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
2974 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
2975 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
2976 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
2978 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
2979 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
2980 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
2981 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
2982 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
2983 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
2984 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
2985 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
2986 memory leaks better.
2987 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
2988 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
2989 their operators to pay close attention.
2990 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
2991 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
2993 o Performance improvements:
2994 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
2995 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
2996 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
2997 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
2998 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
2999 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
3000 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
3001 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
3002 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
3003 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
3004 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
3005 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
3006 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
3007 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
3008 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
3009 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
3010 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
3012 o Security improvements:
3013 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
3014 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
3015 fingerprint of server.
3016 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
3017 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
3018 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
3020 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3021 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
3022 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
3023 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
3024 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
3025 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
3026 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
3027 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
3028 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
3029 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
3030 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
3031 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
3032 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
3033 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
3034 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
3035 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
3036 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
3037 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
3038 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
3039 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
3040 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
3042 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
3043 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
3044 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
3046 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
3047 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
3049 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
3050 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
3051 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
3052 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
3053 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
3054 of the controller protocol.
3055 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
3056 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
3057 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
3060 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
3061 o New features (major):
3062 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
3063 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
3064 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
3065 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
3066 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
3067 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
3068 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
3069 we're using a default DirPort.
3070 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
3072 o New features (minor):
3073 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
3074 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
3075 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
3076 mirrors still cache and serve it).
3077 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
3078 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
3079 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
3080 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
3081 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
3082 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
3083 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
3084 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
3085 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
3086 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
3087 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
3088 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
3089 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
3090 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
3091 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
3093 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
3094 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
3095 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
3096 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
3097 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
3098 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
3099 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
3100 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
3102 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
3103 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
3104 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
3105 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
3106 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
3107 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
3108 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
3109 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
3110 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
3111 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
3113 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
3114 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
3115 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
3116 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
3117 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
3120 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
3121 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
3123 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
3124 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
3126 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
3127 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
3128 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
3129 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
3130 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
3131 don't warn twice about the same name.
3132 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
3133 if we've not heard of the server.
3134 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
3135 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
3138 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
3139 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3140 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
3141 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
3142 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
3143 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
3144 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
3145 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
3146 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
3147 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
3148 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
3149 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
3150 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
3151 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
3152 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
3155 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
3156 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
3157 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
3158 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
3159 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
3161 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
3162 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
3163 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
3164 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
3165 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
3166 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
3170 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
3171 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
3172 nickname) is reachable by you.
3173 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
3177 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
3178 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
3179 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
3180 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
3181 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
3182 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
3183 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
3184 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
3185 we fail to connect).
3186 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
3187 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
3188 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
3189 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
3191 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
3192 it was self-testing that told us so.
3195 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
3196 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
3197 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
3198 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
3199 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
3200 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
3201 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
3202 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
3203 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
3204 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
3205 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
3206 exit policy using him for any exits.
3207 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
3210 o New controller features/fixes:
3211 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
3212 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
3213 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
3214 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
3215 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
3216 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
3217 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
3218 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
3219 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
3221 o Start on the new directory design:
3222 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
3223 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
3225 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
3226 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
3227 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
3228 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
3230 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
3231 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
3232 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
3233 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
3234 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
3235 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
3236 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
3237 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
3240 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
3241 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
3242 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
3243 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
3244 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
3245 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
3246 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
3247 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
3248 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
3249 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
3251 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
3252 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
3253 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
3254 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
3255 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
3256 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
3257 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
3258 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
3259 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
3261 o Config option changes:
3262 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
3263 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
3264 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
3265 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
3266 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
3267 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
3270 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
3271 people have started using them for spam too.
3272 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
3273 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
3274 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
3275 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
3276 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
3277 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
3278 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
3279 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
3280 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
3281 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
3282 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
3283 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
3284 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
3285 services faster on the service end.
3286 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
3287 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
3288 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
3289 it a fair shake next time we try.
3290 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
3291 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
3292 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
3293 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
3294 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
3295 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
3296 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
3297 able to discover them.
3298 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
3299 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
3300 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
3301 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
3302 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
3303 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
3304 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
3305 testing for reachability.
3306 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
3307 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
3309 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
3311 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
3312 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
3315 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
3316 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
3318 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3319 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
3320 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
3321 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
3324 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
3325 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3326 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
3328 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
3329 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
3332 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
3333 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
3336 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
3337 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
3338 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
3339 options, getinfo keys.
3342 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
3343 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3344 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
3345 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
3346 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
3347 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
3348 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
3350 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
3351 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
3355 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
3356 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
3357 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
3359 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
3361 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
3362 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
3363 circuit events and we go offline.
3364 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
3365 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
3366 you don't have enough intro points already.
3368 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
3369 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
3370 many bytes we've used in this time period.
3371 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
3372 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
3373 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
3374 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
3375 enabled by default yet.
3377 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
3378 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
3379 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
3380 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
3381 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
3384 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
3385 o New directory servers:
3386 - tor26 has changed IP address.
3388 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3389 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
3390 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
3392 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
3393 claims its dirport is 0.
3394 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
3395 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
3399 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
3400 o New directory servers:
3401 - tor26 has changed IP address.
3403 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
3404 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
3406 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
3407 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
3408 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
3409 ports that have changed.
3410 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
3412 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
3413 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
3414 Windows-style errno back.
3415 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
3417 want to make it an NT service.
3418 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
3419 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
3420 name, give the full name in our response.
3421 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
3422 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
3423 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
3424 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
3427 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
3428 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
3432 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
3433 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
3434 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
3435 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
3436 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
3439 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
3440 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3441 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
3442 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
3443 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
3444 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
3445 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
3446 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
3449 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
3451 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
3452 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
3453 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
3454 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
3455 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
3456 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
3458 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
3459 temporarily unreachable.
3460 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
3464 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
3465 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
3466 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
3468 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
3472 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
3473 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
3474 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
3475 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
3476 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
3480 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
3481 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
3482 libevent before 1.1a.
3485 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
3487 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
3488 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
3489 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
3490 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
3491 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
3493 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
3494 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
3495 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
3496 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
3497 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
3498 of CPU time plus memory.
3499 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
3500 normal web requests.
3501 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
3502 tor_lookup_hostname().
3503 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
3504 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
3505 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
3506 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
3507 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
3508 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
3510 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
3511 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
3512 HttpProxyAuthenticator
3513 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
3514 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
3515 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
3517 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
3518 the user asks you to.
3519 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
3520 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
3521 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
3522 their descriptors are being rejected.
3523 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
3527 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
3529 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
3530 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
3531 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
3533 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
3535 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
3537 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
3538 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
3539 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
3540 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
3541 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
3542 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
3543 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
3544 keys) from the exit server's process.
3545 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
3546 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
3547 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
3548 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
3549 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
3550 point at your Tor server.
3551 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
3552 you're not sending a socks reply back.
3555 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
3556 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
3557 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
3558 to make it easier to write controllers.
3561 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
3563 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
3564 installing on Tiger.
3565 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
3566 complain during installation.
3567 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
3568 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
3569 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
3570 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
3571 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
3572 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
3574 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
3575 something more reasonable when first installing.
3576 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
3579 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
3581 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
3582 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
3584 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
3585 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
3586 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
3587 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
3588 when using the default exit policy.
3589 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
3590 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
3591 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
3592 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
3593 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
3594 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
3595 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
3596 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
3597 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
3598 we fetched a new directory.
3599 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
3600 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
3603 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
3604 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
3605 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
3606 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
3607 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
3608 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
3609 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
3610 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
3612 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
3613 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
3614 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
3615 save memory on systems that need to fork.
3616 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
3617 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
3618 is valid without actually launching Tor.
3619 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
3620 rather than just rejecting it.
3623 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
3625 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
3626 we didn't like its cert.
3628 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
3629 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
3630 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
3631 on patch from Adam Langley.
3632 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
3633 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
3634 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
3635 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
3637 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
3638 directory every time you regenerate it.
3639 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
3640 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
3643 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
3644 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3645 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
3646 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
3647 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
3650 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
3652 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
3653 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
3654 TLS errors better in other situations too.
3655 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
3656 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
3657 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
3658 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
3659 and don't log when you are.
3660 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
3661 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
3663 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
3664 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
3665 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
3666 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
3667 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
3670 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
3671 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
3672 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
3673 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
3674 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
3675 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
3676 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
3677 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
3678 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
3679 nickname+key are allowed.
3680 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
3681 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
3682 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
3683 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
3684 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
3685 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
3686 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
3687 have quite wrong clocks).
3688 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
3689 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
3690 - Efficiency improvements:
3691 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
3692 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
3693 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
3694 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
3695 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
3696 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
3697 lowercase and be done with it.
3698 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
3699 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
3700 to abandon partially built circuits.
3701 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
3702 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
3704 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
3706 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
3707 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
3708 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
3709 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
3711 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
3712 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
3714 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
3715 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
3716 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
3717 obeying the exit policy internally.
3718 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
3719 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
3721 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
3722 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
3723 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
3724 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
3726 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
3727 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
3728 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
3729 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
3730 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
3732 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
3733 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
3734 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
3735 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
3736 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
3737 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
3738 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
3739 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
3740 descriptors we just dropped.
3741 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
3742 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
3743 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
3744 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
3745 artificially capped at 500kB.
3748 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
3749 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3750 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
3751 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
3752 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
3753 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
3754 busy for more than 100 seconds.
3757 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
3758 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
3759 - Fixes on reachability detection:
3760 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
3761 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
3762 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
3763 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
3764 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
3765 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
3766 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
3767 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
3768 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
3769 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
3770 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
3771 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
3772 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
3773 server not already connected to them.
3774 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
3775 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
3776 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
3778 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
3780 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
3781 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
3782 are in a different state than they actually are.
3783 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
3784 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
3785 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
3787 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
3788 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
3789 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
3791 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
3792 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
3793 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
3794 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
3795 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
3796 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
3797 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
3799 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
3800 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
3801 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
3802 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
3805 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
3806 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
3807 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
3808 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
3809 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
3810 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
3811 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
3812 creating actual system users.
3813 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
3814 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
3818 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
3820 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
3821 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
3822 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
3823 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
3824 hidden services better.
3825 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
3827 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
3828 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
3829 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
3830 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
3831 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
3832 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
3833 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
3834 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
3835 patch by Matt Edman).
3836 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
3837 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
3838 required exit node for certain sites.
3839 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
3840 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
3841 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
3842 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
3843 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
3844 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
3845 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
3846 rather than just "success" or "failure".
3847 - A more sane version numbering system. See
3848 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
3849 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
3850 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
3852 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
3853 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
3854 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
3855 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
3856 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
3857 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
3858 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
3860 o Robustness/stability fixes:
3861 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
3862 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
3863 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
3865 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
3866 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
3867 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
3869 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
3870 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
3871 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
3873 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
3874 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
3875 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
3876 that will want high uptime circuits.
3877 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
3878 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
3879 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
3880 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
3881 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
3882 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
3883 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
3884 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
3885 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
3886 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
3887 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
3888 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
3889 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
3890 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
3891 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
3892 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
3893 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
3894 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
3895 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
3896 when we try to launch one.
3897 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
3898 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
3899 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
3900 "ShutdownWaitLength".
3901 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
3902 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
3903 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
3904 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
3905 and to take errno into account where possible.
3908 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
3909 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
3910 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
3911 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
3912 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
3913 file more reasonable.
3914 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
3915 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
3916 addresses -- it won't.
3917 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
3918 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
3919 for google.com" problem.
3920 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
3921 so it's not just "unknown platform".
3922 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
3923 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
3924 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
3925 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
3927 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
3928 they could use instead.
3929 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
3930 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
3931 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
3932 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
3933 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
3934 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
3935 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
3936 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
3937 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
3939 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
3943 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
3944 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
3946 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
3947 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
3948 private-IP addresses.
3949 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
3950 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
3952 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
3953 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
3954 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
3955 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
3956 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
3957 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
3958 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
3960 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
3961 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
3962 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
3963 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
3964 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
3965 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
3966 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
3967 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
3969 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
3971 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
3972 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
3973 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
3974 whether the server is hibernating.
3977 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
3978 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
3979 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
3980 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
3981 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
3982 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
3983 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
3984 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
3985 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
3986 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
3987 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
3988 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
3989 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
3990 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
3991 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
3993 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
3994 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
3995 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
3996 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
3997 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
3998 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
3999 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
4000 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
4001 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
4002 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
4003 existing torrc files.
4004 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
4007 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
4008 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
4009 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
4010 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
4011 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
4012 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
4013 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
4014 the win32 SYSTEM account.
4015 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
4016 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
4017 file descriptors available.
4018 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
4019 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
4020 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
4023 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
4024 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4025 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
4026 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
4028 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
4029 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
4030 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
4031 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
4032 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
4034 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
4035 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
4036 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
4037 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
4038 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
4039 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
4040 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
4041 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
4042 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
4043 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
4044 800kB/s of capacity.
4045 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
4048 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
4049 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4050 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
4051 need as much processor time.
4052 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
4053 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
4054 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
4055 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
4056 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
4057 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
4058 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
4059 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
4060 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
4061 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
4062 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
4063 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
4065 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
4066 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
4067 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
4068 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
4069 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
4070 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
4071 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
4074 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
4075 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
4076 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
4078 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
4079 style address, then we'd crash.
4080 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
4081 a dirserver is broken.
4082 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
4084 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
4085 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
4086 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
4088 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
4089 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
4090 name out of the warning/assert messages.
4091 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
4092 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
4093 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
4095 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
4096 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
4097 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
4099 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
4101 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
4102 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
4103 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
4104 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
4105 values at once couldn't work.
4106 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
4107 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
4108 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
4109 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
4110 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
4111 they can handle any number of routers.
4112 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
4113 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
4114 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
4115 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
4116 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
4117 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
4118 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
4119 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
4120 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
4123 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
4124 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
4125 - Make hibernation actually work.
4126 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
4127 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
4128 don't use the stream status code.
4131 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
4133 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
4134 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
4136 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
4139 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
4140 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
4141 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
4142 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
4143 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
4144 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
4145 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
4146 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
4147 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
4148 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
4150 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4151 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
4152 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
4153 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
4154 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
4155 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
4156 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
4157 - Make unit tests work on win32.
4160 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
4161 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
4162 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
4164 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
4165 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
4166 than just chopping them off.
4167 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
4169 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4170 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
4171 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
4172 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
4173 right after sending the begin cell.
4174 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
4175 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
4176 exit nodes too. Oops.
4179 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
4180 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
4181 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
4182 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
4183 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
4184 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
4185 the user knows which one it's talking about.
4186 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
4187 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
4188 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
4191 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
4192 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4193 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
4194 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
4196 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
4198 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
4199 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
4200 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
4202 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
4203 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
4204 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
4205 Clip rather than rejecting.
4206 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
4207 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
4210 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
4211 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
4212 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
4213 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
4215 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
4218 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
4219 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4220 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
4221 win32 socket errors better.
4223 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
4224 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
4227 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
4228 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4229 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
4230 so we don't see those messages days later.
4232 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
4233 - Make tor-resolve work again.
4234 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
4235 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
4238 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
4239 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
4240 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
4241 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
4243 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
4244 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
4245 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
4248 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
4249 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4250 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
4251 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
4252 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
4253 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
4254 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
4255 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
4256 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
4258 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
4259 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
4260 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
4261 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
4263 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
4264 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
4267 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
4268 hibernation properties by
4269 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
4270 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
4271 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
4272 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
4273 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
4274 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
4275 get back to normal.)
4276 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
4278 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
4279 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
4280 to fill the last cell completely.
4281 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
4284 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
4285 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4286 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
4287 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
4288 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
4289 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
4290 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
4291 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
4292 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
4293 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
4294 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
4296 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
4297 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
4298 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
4299 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
4300 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
4301 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
4302 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
4303 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
4305 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
4306 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
4307 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
4308 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
4309 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
4310 have it on start-up.
4313 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
4314 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
4315 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
4316 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
4317 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
4318 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
4319 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
4320 configuration to torrc.
4321 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
4322 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
4323 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
4324 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
4325 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
4327 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
4328 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
4329 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
4330 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
4331 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
4332 log more informatively.
4333 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
4334 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
4335 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
4336 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
4337 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
4338 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
4339 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
4340 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
4341 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
4342 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
4343 from each other, to hinder linkability.
4346 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
4347 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
4348 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
4349 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
4350 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
4351 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
4352 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
4354 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
4355 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
4356 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
4357 they ran out of file descriptors.
4358 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
4359 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
4360 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
4361 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
4362 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
4363 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
4364 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
4366 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
4369 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
4370 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
4371 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
4372 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
4373 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
4374 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
4375 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
4376 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
4377 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
4378 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
4379 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
4380 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
4381 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
4382 with the control port.
4383 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
4384 use in authenticating to the control interface.
4385 - New log format in config:
4386 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
4387 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
4390 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
4391 from their dirserver.
4392 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
4394 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
4395 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
4396 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
4397 them act more like real nodes.
4398 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
4399 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
4401 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
4402 nickname to its identity key.
4403 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
4404 not on the command line.
4405 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
4406 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
4407 1024) file descriptors.
4409 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
4410 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
4412 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
4413 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
4414 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
4417 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
4418 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
4419 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
4420 exit policy, not reject *:*.
4421 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
4422 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
4423 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
4424 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
4425 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
4426 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
4427 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
4430 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
4431 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
4432 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
4433 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
4434 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
4435 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
4436 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
4439 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
4440 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
4441 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
4442 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
4443 the ones we find in directories.)
4444 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
4446 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
4447 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
4449 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
4450 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
4451 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
4453 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
4454 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
4455 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
4456 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
4458 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
4459 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
4460 any more exit policy lines.
4463 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
4464 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
4465 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
4466 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
4467 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
4468 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
4469 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
4470 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
4471 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
4472 will be able to get a directory.
4473 - Http proxy support
4474 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
4475 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
4476 be routed through this host.
4477 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
4478 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
4479 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
4480 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
4483 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
4485 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
4486 clients/servers with an open dirport.
4487 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
4488 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
4489 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
4490 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
4491 intermittent connections.
4492 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
4493 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
4495 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
4496 in reporting stats locally.
4497 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
4498 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
4499 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
4502 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
4504 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
4505 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
4508 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
4510 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
4511 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
4512 if you don't want it open.
4513 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
4514 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
4515 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
4516 intermittent connections.
4517 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
4519 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
4520 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
4521 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
4522 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
4523 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
4524 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
4525 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
4526 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
4527 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
4528 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
4529 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
4530 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
4531 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
4532 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
4533 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
4534 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
4537 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
4538 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
4539 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
4540 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
4541 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
4543 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
4545 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
4546 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
4547 specified in HTTP 1.0.
4548 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
4549 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
4550 than once per minute.
4551 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
4552 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
4555 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
4556 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
4559 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
4560 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
4561 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
4562 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
4565 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
4566 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
4568 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
4569 don't put it into the client dns cache.
4570 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
4571 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
4572 until we get our next directory.
4574 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
4575 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
4576 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
4577 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
4578 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
4579 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
4580 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
4581 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
4582 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
4583 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
4584 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
4586 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
4588 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
4589 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
4591 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
4592 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
4593 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
4595 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
4597 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
4598 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
4599 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
4600 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
4601 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
4602 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
4603 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
4604 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
4607 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
4608 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
4609 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
4610 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
4613 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
4614 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
4615 ask them to resolve the host "".
4618 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
4619 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
4620 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
4621 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
4622 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
4623 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
4624 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
4625 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
4626 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
4627 clients don't use this yet.)
4628 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
4629 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
4630 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
4631 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
4632 for pointing out this bug.)
4633 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
4634 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
4635 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
4636 kazaa, gnutella ports.
4637 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
4639 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
4640 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
4641 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
4642 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
4643 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
4644 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
4645 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
4646 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
4647 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
4649 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
4650 that's still handshaking.
4651 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
4652 you'll choose it for your path.
4653 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
4654 end relay cell, etc.
4655 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
4656 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
4657 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
4660 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
4661 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
4663 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
4664 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
4665 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
4666 list to decide who's running or verified.
4667 - Bugfixes and features:
4668 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
4669 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
4670 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
4671 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
4672 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
4673 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
4675 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
4676 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
4677 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
4678 know you might want to get it verified.
4679 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
4682 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
4684 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
4685 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
4686 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
4687 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
4690 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
4691 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
4692 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
4693 hadn't heard of before.
4696 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
4697 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
4698 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
4699 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
4700 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
4701 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
4702 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
4703 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
4704 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
4705 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
4706 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
4707 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
4708 - Directory caching.
4709 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
4710 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
4711 directory they've pulled down.
4712 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
4713 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
4714 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
4715 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
4716 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
4717 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
4718 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
4720 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
4721 This isn't used yet.
4722 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
4723 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
4724 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
4725 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
4726 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
4727 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
4728 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
4729 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
4730 - File and name management:
4731 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
4732 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
4734 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
4735 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
4736 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
4737 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
4738 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
4739 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
4740 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
4742 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
4743 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
4744 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
4745 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
4746 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
4748 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
4749 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
4750 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
4751 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
4752 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
4753 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
4754 - New docs in the tarball:
4756 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
4759 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
4760 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
4761 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
4764 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
4765 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
4766 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
4769 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
4770 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
4773 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
4774 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
4775 - Make it build on Win32 again.
4776 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
4777 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
4781 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
4783 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
4784 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
4785 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
4786 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
4787 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
4788 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
4789 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
4790 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
4791 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
4792 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
4795 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
4798 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
4799 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
4800 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
4801 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
4803 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
4804 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
4805 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
4807 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
4808 hidden service per 15-minute period.
4809 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
4810 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
4811 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
4812 o Fixes for security bugs:
4813 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
4814 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
4815 a trusted dirserver.
4817 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
4818 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
4819 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
4820 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
4821 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
4822 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
4823 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
4824 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
4825 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
4826 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
4828 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
4829 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
4830 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
4831 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
4833 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
4834 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
4835 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
4836 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
4837 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
4838 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
4839 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
4840 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
4841 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
4842 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
4843 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
4844 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
4845 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
4848 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
4849 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
4850 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
4851 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4854 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
4855 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
4856 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
4857 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
4858 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
4859 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
4860 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
4864 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
4868 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
4869 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
4870 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
4871 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
4872 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
4874 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
4877 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
4878 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
4879 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
4880 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
4881 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
4882 o Better debugging for tls errors
4883 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
4884 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
4885 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
4886 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
4887 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
4888 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
4889 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
4890 o win32's close can't close a socket.
4893 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
4894 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
4895 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
4896 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
4897 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
4898 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
4899 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
4900 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
4901 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
4902 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
4903 just close the circ.
4904 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
4905 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
4906 (this was quite rare).
4909 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
4910 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
4911 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
4912 if you decrypted them correctly.
4913 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
4914 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
4915 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
4918 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
4919 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
4920 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
4921 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
4922 a second one and it works.
4923 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
4924 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
4925 alice would just have to wait to time out.
4926 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
4927 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
4928 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
4929 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
4930 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
4931 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
4932 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
4933 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
4934 i'd still like to find the bug though.
4935 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
4937 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
4941 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
4942 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
4943 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
4944 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
4945 he retries a couple of times
4946 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
4947 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
4948 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
4949 too long (they were sticking around forever).
4950 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
4954 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
4955 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
4956 - make hup work again
4957 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
4958 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
4959 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
4960 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
4961 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
4962 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
4964 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
4965 o changes from 0.0.5:
4966 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
4967 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
4968 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
4969 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
4970 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
4972 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
4973 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
4974 in-memory directories too
4977 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
4978 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
4981 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
4983 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
4984 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
4985 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
4986 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
4989 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
4993 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
4994 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
4996 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
4997 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
4998 but that aren't warnings
5001 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
5002 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
5003 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
5004 the dns farm to do it.
5005 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
5006 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
5008 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
5009 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
5010 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
5013 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
5014 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
5015 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
5016 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
5017 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
5018 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
5019 expect it to have a nickname.
5020 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
5021 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
5024 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
5025 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
5029 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
5030 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
5031 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
5032 - include missing header fcntl.h
5033 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
5034 - deal with hardware word alignment
5035 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
5036 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
5037 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
5038 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
5039 by kill -USR1 currently.
5040 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
5041 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
5042 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
5045 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
5046 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
5047 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
5050 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
5052 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
5053 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
5054 - And fix a few endian issues.
5057 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
5059 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
5060 try that circuit again: try a new one.
5061 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
5062 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
5063 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
5064 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
5065 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
5066 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
5068 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
5069 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
5070 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
5072 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
5074 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
5075 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
5076 side isn't reading right then.
5077 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
5079 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
5080 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
5081 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
5084 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
5086 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
5087 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
5090 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
5094 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
5096 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
5097 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
5098 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
5099 connection is finished.
5100 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
5101 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
5102 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
5103 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
5104 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
5105 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
5106 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
5107 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
5108 rather than warn and continue.
5109 - Make --version work
5110 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
5113 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
5115 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
5117 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
5118 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
5120 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
5121 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
5122 so you can collect coredumps there.
5124 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
5125 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
5126 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
5127 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
5128 dns cache actually gets populated.
5129 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
5130 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
5131 end cell down it first.
5132 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
5133 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
5136 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
5138 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
5139 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
5141 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
5142 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
5143 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
5144 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
5145 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
5146 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
5148 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
5150 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
5151 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
5152 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
5153 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
5154 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
5155 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
5157 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
5158 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
5161 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
5163 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
5164 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
5165 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
5166 tor. It even has a man page.
5167 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
5168 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
5169 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
5170 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
5172 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
5174 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
5177 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
5179 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
5181 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
5182 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
5183 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
5184 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
5185 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
5186 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
5187 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
5188 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
5189 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
5190 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
5191 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
5193 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
5194 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
5197 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
5199 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
5200 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
5203 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
5205 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
5206 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
5207 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
5208 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
5209 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
5210 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
5211 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
5212 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
5213 logfile so you know it's working.
5214 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
5215 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
5218 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
5220 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
5221 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
5222 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
5225 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
5227 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
5228 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
5229 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
5232 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
5233 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
5234 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
5236 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
5237 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
5239 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
5240 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
5241 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
5243 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
5244 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
5248 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
5250 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
5251 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
5252 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
5255 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
5256 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
5257 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
5258 - Add port ranges to exit policies
5259 - Add a conservative default exit policy
5260 - Warn if you're running tor as root
5261 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
5262 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
5263 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
5264 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
5266 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
5269 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
5270 o Robustness and bugfixes:
5271 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
5272 really screw things up.
5273 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
5275 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
5276 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
5278 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
5279 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
5280 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
5281 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
5282 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
5283 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
5286 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
5289 - Change default loglevel to warn.
5290 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
5291 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
5293 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
5296 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
5297 o Robustness and bugfixes:
5298 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
5299 - to get ownership/permissions right
5300 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
5301 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
5302 pull down a directory again
5303 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
5304 causing server crashes
5305 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
5306 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
5307 - exit if bind() fails
5308 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
5309 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
5310 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
5311 - fix minor bias in PRNG
5312 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
5315 - Wrote the design document (woo)
5317 o Circuit building and exit policies:
5318 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
5320 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
5321 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
5322 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
5323 exists, rather than failing
5324 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
5325 which AP connections are standing by
5326 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
5327 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
5328 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
5330 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
5331 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
5334 - APPort is now called SocksPort
5335 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
5337 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
5338 hardcoded (for dirservers)
5339 - Reloads config on HUP
5340 - Usage info on -h or --help
5341 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
5343 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
5344 o General stability:
5345 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
5346 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
5347 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
5348 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
5349 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
5350 to take down the network when I approve a new router
5351 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
5354 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
5355 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
5357 o Autoconf improvements:
5358 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
5359 - Make install now works
5360 - create var/lib/tor on make install
5361 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
5362 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
5364 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
5365 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
5366 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
5367 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup