1 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
2 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
3 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
4 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
5 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
7 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
12 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
13 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
14 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
15 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
17 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
18 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
19 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
20 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
21 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
24 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
25 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
26 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
27 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
29 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
30 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
31 Implements ticket 27252.
32 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
33 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
34 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
35 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
36 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
37 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
38 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
40 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
41 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
42 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
43 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
45 o Minor features (geoip):
46 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
47 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
49 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
50 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
51 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
52 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
53 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
55 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
56 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
57 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
58 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
59 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
62 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
63 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
64 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
67 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
68 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
69 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
70 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
71 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
73 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
74 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
75 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
77 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
78 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
79 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
81 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
82 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
83 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
84 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
86 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
87 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
88 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
90 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
91 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
92 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
95 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
96 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
97 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
99 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
100 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
101 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
104 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
105 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
106 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
107 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
108 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
110 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
111 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
112 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
113 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
114 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
115 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
117 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
118 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
119 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
122 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
123 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
124 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
125 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
126 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
127 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
128 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
129 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
131 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
132 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
133 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
134 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
136 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
137 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
138 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
139 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
140 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
142 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
143 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
144 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
145 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
146 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
147 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
149 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
150 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
151 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
152 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
153 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
154 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
156 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
157 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
158 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
159 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
162 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
163 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
164 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
165 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
166 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
169 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
170 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
171 compilation and portability fixes.
173 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
174 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
175 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
176 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
177 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
178 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
179 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
180 our anti-denial-of-service code.
182 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
183 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
185 o Minor features (compatibility):
186 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
187 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
188 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
190 o Minor features (continuous integration):
191 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
192 Implements ticket 27449.
193 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
194 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
197 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
198 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
199 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
200 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
201 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
202 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
203 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
204 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
207 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
208 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
209 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
210 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
211 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
212 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
213 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
214 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
215 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
216 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
218 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
219 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
220 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
223 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
224 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
225 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
226 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
227 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
228 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
229 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
233 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
234 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
235 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
236 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
237 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
239 o Minor features (bug workaround):
240 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
241 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
242 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
244 o Minor features (continuous integration):
245 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
246 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
248 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
249 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
250 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
251 Implements ticket 27275.
252 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
253 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
255 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
256 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
259 o Minor features (directory authorities):
260 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
261 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
262 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
264 o Minor features (geoip):
265 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
266 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
269 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
270 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
271 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
273 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
274 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
275 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
276 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
277 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
278 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
279 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
280 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
282 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
283 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
284 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
285 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
287 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
288 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
289 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
290 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
291 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
293 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
294 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
295 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
298 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
299 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
300 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
303 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
304 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
306 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
307 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
308 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
309 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
310 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
311 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
312 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
314 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
315 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
316 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
317 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
318 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
320 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
321 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
322 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
323 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
324 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
326 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
327 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
328 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
329 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
330 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
332 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
333 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
334 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
337 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
338 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
339 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
340 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
341 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
343 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
344 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
345 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
346 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
347 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
348 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
350 o Minor features (compilation):
351 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
352 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
354 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
355 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
356 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
357 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
358 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
359 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
361 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
362 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
363 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
364 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
366 o Minor features (controller):
367 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
368 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
369 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
371 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
372 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
373 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
376 o Minor features (geoip):
377 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
378 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
380 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
381 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
383 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
384 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
385 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
386 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
387 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
388 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
389 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
391 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
392 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
393 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
394 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
395 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
396 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
398 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
399 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
400 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
403 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
404 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
405 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
407 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
408 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
409 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
412 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
413 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
414 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
415 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
416 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
417 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
419 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
420 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
421 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
422 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
424 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
425 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
426 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
428 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
429 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
430 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
431 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
432 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
433 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
435 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
436 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
437 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
438 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
439 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
442 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
443 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
444 bridge relays should upgrade.
446 o Directory authority changes:
447 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
448 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
449 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
452 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
453 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
454 bridge relays should upgrade.
456 o Directory authority changes:
457 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
458 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
459 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
462 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
463 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
464 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
467 o Directory authority changes:
468 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
469 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
470 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
472 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
473 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
476 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
477 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
478 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
479 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
480 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
482 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
483 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
484 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
486 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
487 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
488 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
489 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
491 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
492 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
493 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
495 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
496 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
497 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
498 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
499 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
500 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
502 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
503 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
504 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
505 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
507 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
508 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
509 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
512 o Minor features (geoip):
513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
514 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
516 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
517 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
518 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
519 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
520 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
522 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
523 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
524 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
526 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
527 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
528 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
529 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
530 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
531 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
532 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
533 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
536 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
537 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
538 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
539 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
540 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
541 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
543 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
544 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
545 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
546 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
547 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
549 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
550 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
551 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
552 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
553 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
555 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
556 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
557 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
560 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
561 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
562 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
564 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
565 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
566 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
567 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
569 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
570 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
571 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
572 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
573 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
574 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
575 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
577 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
578 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
579 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
580 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
583 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
584 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
585 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
587 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
588 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
589 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
591 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
592 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
593 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
594 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
597 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
598 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
599 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
600 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
602 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
603 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
604 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
606 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
607 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
608 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
611 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
612 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
613 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
616 o Directory authority changes:
617 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
618 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
619 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
621 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
622 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
625 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
626 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
627 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
628 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
629 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
631 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
632 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
633 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
634 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
636 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
637 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
638 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
639 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
640 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
641 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
643 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
644 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
645 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
648 o Minor features (geoip):
649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
650 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
652 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
653 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
654 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
655 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
656 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
658 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
659 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
660 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
662 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
663 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
664 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
665 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
668 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
669 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
670 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
671 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
672 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
673 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
675 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
676 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
677 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
678 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
679 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
681 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
682 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
683 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
686 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
687 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
688 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
690 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
691 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
692 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
693 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
695 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
696 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
697 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
699 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
700 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
701 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
704 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
705 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
706 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
707 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
708 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
710 o Minor features (compilation):
711 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
712 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
715 o Minor features (geoip):
716 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
717 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
719 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
720 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
722 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
723 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
724 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
725 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
726 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
728 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
729 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
730 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
731 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
732 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
733 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
735 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
736 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
737 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
740 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
741 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
742 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
744 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
745 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
746 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
747 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
748 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
749 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
750 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
751 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
755 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
756 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
757 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
759 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
760 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
761 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
762 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
764 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
765 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
766 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
769 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
770 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
771 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
774 o Minor features (geoip):
775 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
776 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
778 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
779 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
780 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
781 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
783 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
784 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
785 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
786 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
787 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
791 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
792 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
793 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
794 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
796 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
797 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
798 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
799 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
801 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
802 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
803 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
805 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
806 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
807 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
808 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
811 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
812 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
813 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
814 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
816 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
817 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
818 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
819 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
820 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
821 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
822 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
823 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
827 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
828 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
829 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
831 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
832 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
833 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
834 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
836 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
837 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
838 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
841 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
842 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
843 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
844 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
846 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
847 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
848 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
849 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
851 o Minor features (unit tests):
852 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
853 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
854 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
857 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
858 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
859 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
860 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
861 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
862 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
863 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
864 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
867 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
868 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
869 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
870 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
871 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
872 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
874 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
875 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
876 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
877 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
880 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
881 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
882 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
883 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
884 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
885 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
886 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
887 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
888 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
889 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
890 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
891 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
892 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
893 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
896 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
897 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
898 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
900 o Directory authority changes:
901 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
904 o Minor features (geoip):
905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
906 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
908 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
909 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
910 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
911 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
912 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
913 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
916 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
917 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
919 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
920 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
921 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
922 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
923 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
925 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
926 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
927 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
929 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
930 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
931 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
932 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
933 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
934 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
937 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
938 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
939 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
941 o Directory authority changes:
942 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
945 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
946 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
947 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
948 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
949 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
951 o Minor features (continuous integration):
952 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
953 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
954 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
956 o Minor features (geoip):
957 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
958 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
960 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
961 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
962 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
963 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
964 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
965 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
968 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
969 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
970 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
971 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
972 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
973 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
974 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
976 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
977 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
978 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
979 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
982 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
983 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
984 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
985 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
986 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
988 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
989 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
990 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
992 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
993 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
994 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
996 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
997 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
998 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
999 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
1003 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
1004 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
1005 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1007 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
1008 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
1009 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
1010 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
1011 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
1012 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
1014 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
1015 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1017 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1018 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1019 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1020 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1021 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1023 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
1024 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
1025 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
1026 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
1027 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
1029 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1030 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
1031 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
1032 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1034 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1035 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
1036 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
1037 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1039 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1040 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1041 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1043 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1044 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
1045 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
1048 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1049 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
1050 Closes ticket 26006.
1052 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1053 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1054 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1055 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1056 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1057 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1059 o Minor features (geoip):
1060 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
1061 database. Closes ticket 26104.
1063 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1064 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1065 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1068 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1069 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
1070 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
1071 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
1072 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1074 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1075 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
1076 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
1077 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
1078 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
1081 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1082 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1083 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1085 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1086 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1087 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1088 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1089 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1090 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1091 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1094 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
1095 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1097 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
1098 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
1099 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
1102 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
1103 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
1104 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
1105 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
1106 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
1107 other small features and bugfixes.
1109 o New system requirements:
1110 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
1111 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
1112 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
1113 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
1115 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
1116 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
1117 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
1118 To disable the module, the configure option
1119 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
1120 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
1122 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
1123 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
1124 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
1125 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
1126 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
1127 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
1128 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
1129 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
1130 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
1131 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
1132 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
1134 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
1135 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
1136 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
1137 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
1138 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
1139 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
1140 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
1141 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
1142 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
1143 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
1144 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
1145 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
1146 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
1147 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
1148 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
1149 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
1150 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
1151 Tor's uptime (26009).
1153 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
1154 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
1155 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
1156 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
1157 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1159 o Major bugfixes (crash):
1160 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
1161 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
1162 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1164 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1165 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
1166 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
1167 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1169 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1170 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
1171 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
1173 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
1174 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
1175 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
1176 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
1177 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
1178 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
1179 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
1180 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
1181 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
1182 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
1183 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
1184 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
1185 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
1186 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1188 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
1189 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
1190 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
1193 o Minor features (accounting):
1194 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
1195 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
1196 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
1197 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
1199 o Minor features (code quality):
1200 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
1201 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
1202 Closes ticket 25024.
1204 o Minor features (compatibility):
1205 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
1206 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
1207 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
1208 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
1209 Closes ticket 26006.
1211 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
1212 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
1213 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
1214 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
1215 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
1216 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
1218 o Minor features (configuration):
1219 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
1220 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
1221 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
1222 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
1223 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
1225 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1226 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
1227 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
1228 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
1229 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
1230 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
1232 o Minor features (control port):
1233 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
1234 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
1235 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
1236 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1237 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
1238 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
1239 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
1240 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
1241 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
1242 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
1244 o Minor features (directory authority):
1245 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
1246 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
1247 Closes ticket 23909.
1249 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
1250 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
1251 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
1252 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
1254 o Minor features (entry guards):
1255 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
1256 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
1258 o Minor features (geoip):
1259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
1260 database. Closes ticket 26104.
1262 o Minor features (performance):
1263 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
1264 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
1265 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
1266 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
1268 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
1269 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
1271 o Minor features (testing):
1272 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
1273 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
1275 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
1276 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
1277 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
1278 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
1279 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
1280 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
1282 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
1283 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
1284 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
1285 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
1286 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
1288 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
1289 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
1290 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
1291 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
1292 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
1293 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
1295 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1296 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
1297 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
1298 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
1300 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
1301 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
1302 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
1303 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
1304 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
1307 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1308 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
1309 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
1312 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
1313 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
1314 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1315 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
1316 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
1318 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
1319 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
1320 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
1321 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
1322 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1324 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1325 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
1326 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
1327 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
1328 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1330 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
1331 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
1332 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
1333 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
1334 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1336 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
1337 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
1338 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1339 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
1340 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
1341 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
1344 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1345 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
1346 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
1347 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
1348 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
1351 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
1352 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
1353 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
1354 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
1355 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
1356 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
1357 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1360 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
1361 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1363 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1364 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
1365 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1366 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
1367 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
1368 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
1369 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1371 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
1372 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
1373 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
1374 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
1375 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
1376 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1378 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1379 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
1380 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
1383 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
1384 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
1385 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
1386 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1388 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
1389 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
1390 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
1391 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
1392 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
1393 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
1394 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
1397 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
1398 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1400 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
1401 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
1402 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
1403 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1405 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1406 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
1407 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
1408 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
1409 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
1410 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1411 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
1412 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
1414 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
1415 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
1416 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1417 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
1418 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
1419 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
1420 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
1422 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
1423 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
1424 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
1425 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
1426 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
1428 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
1429 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
1430 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
1433 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
1434 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
1435 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
1436 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
1437 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
1438 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1440 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1441 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
1442 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
1443 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1444 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
1445 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
1446 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
1447 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
1449 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
1450 confusing we renamed some functions and
1451 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
1452 router_should_check_reachability() and
1453 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
1454 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
1455 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
1456 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
1457 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
1459 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
1460 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
1462 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
1463 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
1464 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1465 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
1466 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
1467 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
1468 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
1469 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
1470 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
1471 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
1472 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
1473 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
1474 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
1475 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
1476 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
1477 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1478 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
1479 Closes ticket 25766.
1480 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
1481 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
1482 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
1483 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
1484 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
1485 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
1486 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
1487 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
1488 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
1489 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
1490 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1491 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
1492 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
1493 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
1495 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
1496 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
1497 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
1498 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
1499 before. Closes ticket 26016.
1500 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
1501 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
1502 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
1503 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
1505 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
1506 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
1507 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
1508 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1510 o Deprecated features:
1511 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
1512 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
1513 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
1514 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
1515 key if the want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
1516 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
1519 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
1520 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
1523 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
1524 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
1525 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
1526 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
1527 24378 and proposal 290.
1528 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
1529 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
1530 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
1531 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
1532 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
1533 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
1534 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
1535 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
1536 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
1537 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
1538 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
1539 their local router. Closes 25409.
1540 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
1541 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
1542 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
1543 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
1544 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
1545 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
1546 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
1547 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
1548 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
1549 Closes ticket 25268.
1552 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
1553 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
1554 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
1556 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
1557 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
1558 be nearly identical to this one.
1560 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
1561 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
1562 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
1563 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
1564 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
1565 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1567 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
1568 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
1569 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
1570 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
1571 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
1572 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
1573 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
1575 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
1576 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
1577 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
1579 o Minor features (config options):
1580 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
1581 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
1582 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
1585 o Minor features (geoip):
1586 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1587 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
1589 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1590 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
1591 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
1592 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
1593 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
1594 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1596 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1597 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
1598 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
1599 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1601 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
1602 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
1603 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
1604 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1605 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
1606 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
1607 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1609 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1610 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
1611 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
1612 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
1613 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1614 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
1615 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1617 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
1618 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
1619 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
1620 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
1621 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
1623 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1624 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
1625 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
1627 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
1628 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
1629 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
1631 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1632 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
1633 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
1635 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
1636 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
1637 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
1641 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
1642 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
1643 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
1644 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
1646 o New system requirements:
1647 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
1648 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
1650 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
1651 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
1652 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
1653 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
1654 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1656 o Minor features (geoip):
1657 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1658 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
1660 o Minor features (log messages):
1661 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
1662 information about memory usage from the different compression
1663 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
1665 o Minor features (sandbox):
1666 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
1667 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
1668 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
1670 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
1671 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
1672 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
1673 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
1675 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
1676 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
1677 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
1679 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1680 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
1681 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
1682 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1684 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
1685 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
1686 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
1687 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1689 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1690 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
1691 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
1692 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
1694 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1695 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
1696 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
1698 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
1699 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
1700 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
1701 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
1702 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
1703 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1705 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1706 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
1707 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
1708 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
1710 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
1711 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
1712 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
1713 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
1715 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
1716 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
1717 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
1718 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
1721 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
1722 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
1723 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
1724 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
1725 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1727 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1728 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
1729 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
1733 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
1735 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
1736 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
1739 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
1740 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
1743 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
1744 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
1746 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
1747 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
1749 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
1752 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
1753 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
1754 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
1756 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
1757 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
1758 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
1759 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
1762 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1763 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
1764 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
1765 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
1768 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1769 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
1770 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
1771 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
1772 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
1773 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
1774 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
1775 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
1776 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
1777 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
1778 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
1779 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
1780 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
1782 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
1783 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
1784 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
1786 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1787 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
1788 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
1789 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
1790 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
1791 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
1792 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1794 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1795 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
1796 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1798 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1799 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
1800 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
1801 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
1802 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
1803 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
1804 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1806 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1807 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
1808 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
1809 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
1811 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
1812 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
1813 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
1814 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
1816 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1817 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
1818 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
1819 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
1820 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
1821 Closes ticket 24978.
1823 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
1824 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
1825 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
1826 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
1827 information. Closes ticket 24801.
1828 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
1829 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
1830 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
1831 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
1833 o Minor features (geoip):
1834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1837 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1838 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
1839 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
1840 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
1841 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
1843 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1844 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
1845 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
1846 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
1847 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
1849 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
1850 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
1851 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
1852 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
1853 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
1856 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
1857 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
1858 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
1859 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
1860 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
1861 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
1862 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
1863 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
1864 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
1865 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
1866 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
1869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
1870 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
1871 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
1873 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
1874 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
1875 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
1878 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1879 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
1880 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
1881 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
1882 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
1883 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
1884 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
1886 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
1887 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
1888 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1889 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
1890 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
1891 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
1892 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
1893 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
1894 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
1897 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
1898 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
1899 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
1900 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
1901 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
1902 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1904 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
1905 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
1906 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
1907 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1909 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
1910 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
1911 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
1912 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
1913 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
1916 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
1917 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
1918 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
1919 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
1920 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
1921 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1923 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
1924 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
1925 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
1926 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
1927 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
1928 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
1929 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1930 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
1931 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
1932 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1933 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
1934 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
1936 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1937 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
1938 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
1939 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1941 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
1942 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
1943 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
1944 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1946 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
1947 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
1948 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
1949 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
1952 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
1953 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
1954 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
1955 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
1956 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
1958 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1959 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
1961 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
1962 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1964 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1965 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
1966 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
1969 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
1970 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
1973 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
1974 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
1976 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
1977 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
1979 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
1982 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
1983 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
1984 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
1986 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
1987 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
1988 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
1989 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
1992 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
1993 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
1994 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
1995 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
1996 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
1997 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
1998 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
1999 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2000 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2001 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2002 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2003 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2004 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2006 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
2007 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
2008 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
2009 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
2010 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
2011 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
2012 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
2013 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
2014 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
2016 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
2017 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2018 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2019 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2020 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2021 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2022 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2024 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
2025 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
2026 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
2027 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
2029 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
2030 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2031 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2032 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2033 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2034 Closes ticket 24978.
2036 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
2037 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2038 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2039 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2041 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2042 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2043 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2044 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2045 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2046 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2047 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2048 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2049 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2051 o Minor features (geoip):
2052 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2055 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2056 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
2057 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
2059 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
2060 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2061 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2062 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2063 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2065 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
2066 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2067 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2068 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2069 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2071 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
2072 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2073 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2074 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2075 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2078 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2079 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
2080 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
2082 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2083 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
2084 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
2087 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2088 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2089 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2090 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2091 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2092 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2093 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2095 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
2096 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
2097 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
2098 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
2099 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
2102 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
2103 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
2104 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
2105 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
2106 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
2107 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2109 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
2110 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2111 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2112 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2114 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
2115 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
2116 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
2117 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
2118 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
2119 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
2120 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2121 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
2122 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
2123 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2124 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
2125 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2127 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
2128 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2129 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2130 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
2133 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2134 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
2135 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
2136 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
2137 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2140 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2142 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2143 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2146 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
2147 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
2148 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
2151 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2152 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2154 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
2155 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
2156 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
2157 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
2158 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
2159 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
2162 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
2163 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
2165 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2168 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
2169 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
2170 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
2171 the DoS mitigations.)
2173 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2174 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2175 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2176 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2179 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2180 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
2181 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
2182 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2184 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2185 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2186 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2187 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2188 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2189 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2190 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2191 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2192 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2193 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2194 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2195 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2196 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2198 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2199 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2200 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2201 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2202 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2203 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2204 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2205 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
2206 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
2207 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
2208 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2210 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2211 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2212 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2214 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2215 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2216 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2217 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2218 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2219 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2220 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2222 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2223 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
2224 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
2225 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2227 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2228 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2229 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2230 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2232 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2233 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2234 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2235 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2236 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2237 Closes ticket 24978.
2239 o Minor features (geoip):
2240 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2243 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2244 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
2245 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
2248 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2249 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2250 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2251 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2252 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2254 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2255 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2256 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2257 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2258 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2259 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2260 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2262 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2263 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2264 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2265 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2266 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2268 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2269 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
2270 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
2271 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2273 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2274 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
2275 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
2276 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
2277 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2279 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2280 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
2281 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
2282 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2284 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2285 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
2286 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
2287 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2289 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2290 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2291 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2292 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2294 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2295 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2297 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2298 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2300 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
2301 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
2302 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
2304 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
2305 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
2306 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
2307 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
2308 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2310 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
2311 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
2312 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
2314 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
2315 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
2316 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
2320 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
2321 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
2322 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
2323 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
2325 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
2326 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
2327 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
2328 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
2329 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
2330 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2332 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
2335 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
2336 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
2337 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
2338 the DoS mitigations.)
2340 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
2341 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
2342 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
2343 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
2346 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
2347 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
2348 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
2349 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
2350 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
2351 Closes ticket 24978.
2353 o Minor features (logging):
2354 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
2355 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
2357 o Minor features (testing):
2358 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
2361 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
2362 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
2363 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
2364 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
2365 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
2366 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
2367 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
2369 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
2370 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
2371 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
2372 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2373 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
2374 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
2377 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
2378 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
2379 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
2380 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2383 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
2384 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
2385 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
2386 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
2389 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2390 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
2392 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
2393 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
2396 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
2397 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2398 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
2400 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2401 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
2402 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
2405 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
2406 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
2407 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
2408 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
2409 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
2410 it to older supported release series.
2412 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
2413 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
2414 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
2415 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
2416 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
2417 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
2418 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
2419 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
2420 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
2421 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
2422 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
2423 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
2424 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
2426 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
2427 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
2428 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
2429 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
2430 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
2431 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
2432 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
2433 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2435 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
2436 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
2437 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2439 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
2440 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
2441 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
2442 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2444 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
2445 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
2446 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
2447 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
2449 o Minor features (directory authority):
2450 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
2451 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
2453 o Minor features (geoip):
2454 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2457 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2458 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
2459 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
2462 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
2463 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
2464 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
2465 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
2466 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2468 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
2469 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
2470 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
2471 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
2472 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2474 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
2475 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
2476 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
2477 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
2479 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
2480 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
2481 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
2482 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
2483 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2485 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2486 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
2487 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
2488 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2490 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2491 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
2492 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
2493 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2494 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
2495 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
2496 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
2498 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2499 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
2500 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
2501 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
2502 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2503 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
2504 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
2505 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
2507 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2508 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
2509 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
2510 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
2511 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
2512 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
2513 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2515 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
2516 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
2517 would call the Rust implementation of
2518 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
2519 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
2520 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
2521 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
2522 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2524 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
2525 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
2526 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
2529 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
2530 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
2531 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
2532 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
2533 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
2534 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
2536 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2537 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
2538 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
2539 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
2540 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2542 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2543 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
2545 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
2546 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
2547 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
2550 o Documentation (man page):
2551 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
2552 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
2556 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
2557 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
2558 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
2559 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
2560 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
2561 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
2564 o Major features (embedding):
2565 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
2566 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
2567 Closes ticket 23684.
2568 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
2569 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
2570 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
2571 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
2572 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
2573 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
2575 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
2576 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
2577 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
2578 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
2579 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
2580 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
2581 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
2582 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
2583 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
2584 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
2585 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
2588 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
2589 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
2590 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
2591 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
2592 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
2593 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
2594 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
2596 o Major features (onion services):
2597 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
2598 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
2599 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
2600 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
2601 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
2604 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
2605 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
2606 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
2607 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
2608 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
2609 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
2610 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
2611 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
2613 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
2614 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
2615 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
2616 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
2617 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
2619 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
2620 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
2621 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
2622 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
2623 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
2624 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
2625 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2627 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
2628 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
2629 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
2630 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
2631 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
2632 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
2633 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2634 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
2635 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
2636 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
2637 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2639 o Major bugfixes (relays):
2640 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
2641 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
2642 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
2643 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
2644 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
2645 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2647 o Minor feature (IPv6):
2648 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
2649 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
2650 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
2651 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
2652 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
2653 Implements ticket 23827.
2655 o Minor features (cleanup):
2656 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
2657 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
2659 o Minor features (defensive programming):
2660 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
2661 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
2662 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
2663 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
2664 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
2665 once. Part of ticket 24337.
2666 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
2667 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
2668 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
2670 o Minor features (embedding):
2671 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
2672 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
2673 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
2674 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
2675 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
2676 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
2677 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
2678 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
2679 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
2680 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
2681 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
2682 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
2683 Closes ticket 23848.
2684 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
2685 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
2686 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
2688 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2689 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
2690 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
2691 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
2692 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
2693 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
2694 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
2695 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
2698 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
2699 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
2700 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
2701 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
2702 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
2703 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
2704 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
2706 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
2707 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
2708 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
2709 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
2710 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
2711 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
2712 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
2713 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
2714 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
2715 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
2716 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
2717 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
2719 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
2720 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
2721 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
2723 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
2724 Implements ticket 24791.
2726 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
2727 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
2728 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
2729 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
2730 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
2731 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
2733 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2734 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
2735 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
2738 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
2739 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
2740 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
2741 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
2742 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
2744 o Minor features (log messages):
2745 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
2746 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
2747 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
2748 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
2750 o Minor features (logging, android):
2751 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
2754 o Minor features (performance):
2755 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
2756 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
2757 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
2758 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
2760 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
2761 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
2762 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
2763 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
2764 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
2765 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
2766 Implements ticket 24374.
2768 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
2769 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
2770 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
2771 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
2772 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
2774 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2775 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
2776 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
2777 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
2780 o Major features (relay):
2781 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
2782 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
2783 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
2784 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
2785 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
2787 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
2788 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
2789 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
2790 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
2791 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
2792 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
2793 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
2794 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
2795 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
2797 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
2798 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
2799 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
2800 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2802 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
2803 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
2804 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
2805 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2806 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
2807 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
2808 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2809 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
2810 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
2811 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
2812 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
2813 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
2816 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
2817 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
2818 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
2819 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
2822 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
2823 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
2824 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
2827 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
2828 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
2829 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
2831 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
2832 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2833 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
2834 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
2835 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
2837 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
2838 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2839 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
2840 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2842 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
2843 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
2844 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
2845 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
2846 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
2847 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
2849 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2850 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
2851 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
2852 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2855 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
2856 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
2857 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
2858 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2859 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
2862 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
2863 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
2864 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
2865 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2867 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
2868 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
2869 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
2870 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2872 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
2873 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
2874 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
2875 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
2876 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
2877 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2878 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
2879 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
2880 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
2881 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
2882 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
2883 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
2885 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2886 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
2887 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2888 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
2889 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
2891 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2892 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
2894 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
2895 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
2896 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
2897 "aruna1234" and teor.
2898 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
2899 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
2900 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
2901 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
2903 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
2904 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
2905 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
2906 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
2907 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
2908 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
2909 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
2910 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
2911 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
2912 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
2914 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
2915 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
2918 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
2919 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
2921 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
2922 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
2923 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
2924 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
2925 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
2926 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
2929 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
2930 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
2931 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
2932 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
2933 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
2935 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
2936 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
2937 adding very little except for unit test.
2939 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
2940 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
2941 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
2942 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
2944 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2945 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
2946 const. Implements ticket 24489.
2949 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
2950 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
2952 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
2953 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
2954 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
2955 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
2956 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
2957 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
2959 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
2960 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
2961 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
2962 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
2963 with the 0.2.9 series.
2965 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
2966 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2968 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
2969 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
2970 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
2971 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
2972 information. Closes ticket 24801.
2973 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
2974 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
2975 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
2976 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
2978 o Minor features (geoip):
2979 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2982 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
2983 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
2984 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
2985 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
2986 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
2989 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2990 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
2991 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2993 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
2994 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
2995 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
2996 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
3000 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
3001 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
3002 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
3003 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
3004 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
3005 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
3006 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
3008 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
3009 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
3010 will be nearly identical to this.
3012 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
3013 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
3014 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
3015 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
3016 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
3017 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
3018 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3020 o Minor features (geoip):
3021 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3024 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
3025 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
3026 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
3027 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3029 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
3030 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
3031 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
3032 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
3033 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
3036 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
3037 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
3038 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
3039 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
3040 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
3041 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3044 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
3045 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
3046 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
3048 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
3049 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
3050 be nearly identical to this.
3052 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
3053 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
3054 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
3055 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
3056 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
3057 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
3058 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
3060 o Minor features (logging):
3061 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
3064 o Minor features (portability):
3065 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
3066 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
3069 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
3070 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
3071 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
3072 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
3073 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3074 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
3075 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
3076 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
3077 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3078 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
3079 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
3080 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
3081 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3083 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3084 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
3085 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3087 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
3088 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
3089 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
3090 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
3091 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
3092 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
3093 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
3096 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3097 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
3098 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
3099 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
3100 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
3101 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
3102 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3104 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
3105 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
3106 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
3107 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3108 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
3109 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
3110 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
3111 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3112 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
3113 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
3114 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3117 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
3118 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
3119 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
3120 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
3123 o Major bugfixes (security):
3124 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3125 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3126 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3127 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3128 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3129 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3130 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3131 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3132 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3133 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3135 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3136 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3137 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3138 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3139 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3140 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3141 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3144 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
3145 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3146 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3147 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3148 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3150 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
3151 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3152 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3153 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3154 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3155 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3156 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3157 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3158 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3160 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
3161 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
3162 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
3163 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
3165 o Minor features (directory authority):
3166 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3169 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3170 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
3171 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
3172 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3175 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
3176 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
3177 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
3178 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
3180 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3181 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3182 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3183 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3184 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3185 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3186 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3187 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3188 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3189 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3190 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3192 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3193 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3194 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3195 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3196 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3197 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3198 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3201 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3202 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3203 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3204 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3205 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3207 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3208 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3209 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3210 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3211 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3212 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3213 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3214 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3215 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3217 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3218 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3219 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3220 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3221 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3222 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3225 o Minor features (bridge):
3226 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3227 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3228 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3229 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3232 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3233 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3236 o Minor features (geoip):
3237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3240 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3241 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3242 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3243 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3244 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3246 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3247 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3248 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3250 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3251 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3252 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3253 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3254 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3255 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3257 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
3258 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
3259 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
3262 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3263 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3264 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3265 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3266 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3269 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
3270 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3271 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3272 to another of the releases coming out today.
3274 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
3275 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3276 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3278 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3279 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3280 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3281 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3282 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3283 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3284 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3285 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3286 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3287 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3288 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3290 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3291 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3292 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3293 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3294 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3295 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3296 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3299 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3300 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3301 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3302 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3303 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3305 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3306 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3307 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3308 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3309 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3310 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3311 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
3312 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
3313 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3315 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3316 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3317 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3318 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3319 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3320 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3323 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3324 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
3325 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
3326 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
3327 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
3328 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
3330 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3331 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3332 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3333 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3334 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3337 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3338 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3341 o Minor features (geoip):
3342 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3345 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3346 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3347 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3348 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3349 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3352 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3353 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3355 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3356 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3357 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3358 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3359 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3360 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3362 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3363 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3364 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3365 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3366 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3368 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3369 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
3370 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
3373 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
3374 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3375 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3376 to another of the releases coming out today.
3378 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3379 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3380 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3381 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3382 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3383 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3386 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3387 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3388 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3389 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3390 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3391 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3392 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3393 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3394 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
3395 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
3396 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
3398 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3399 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3400 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3401 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3402 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3403 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3404 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3407 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3408 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3409 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3410 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3411 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3413 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3414 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3415 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3416 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3417 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3418 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3420 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3421 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3422 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3423 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3424 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3427 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3428 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3431 o Minor features (geoip):
3432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3435 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
3436 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
3437 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
3438 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
3439 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
3440 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
3442 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3443 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
3444 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
3445 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
3446 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3448 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
3449 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
3450 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3452 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3453 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
3454 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
3455 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
3456 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
3457 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3459 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
3460 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3461 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3462 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3463 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3466 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
3467 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
3470 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
3471 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3472 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3473 to another of the releases coming out today.
3475 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
3476 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
3477 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3479 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3480 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3481 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3482 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3483 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3484 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3485 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3486 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3487 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3488 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3489 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3490 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3491 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3492 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3493 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3496 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3497 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
3498 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
3499 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
3500 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
3502 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3503 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
3504 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
3505 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
3506 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
3509 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3510 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3511 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3512 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3513 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3516 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3517 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
3520 o Minor features (geoip):
3521 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3524 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
3525 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
3526 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
3529 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
3530 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
3531 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
3532 to another of the releases coming out today.
3534 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
3535 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
3536 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3538 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3539 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
3540 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
3541 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
3542 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
3543 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
3544 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
3545 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
3546 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
3547 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
3548 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
3549 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
3550 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
3551 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
3552 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
3555 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
3556 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
3557 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
3558 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
3559 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3560 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
3562 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
3563 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
3564 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
3565 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
3566 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
3569 o Minor features (geoip):
3570 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3574 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
3575 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
3576 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
3577 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
3578 since the 0.3.0.x series.
3580 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
3581 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
3584 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
3585 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
3586 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
3587 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
3588 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
3589 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
3590 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
3591 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
3592 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
3593 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
3594 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
3597 o Minor features (directory authority):
3598 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
3599 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
3600 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
3601 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
3603 o Minor features (geoip):
3604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3607 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3608 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
3609 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
3611 o Minor features (logging):
3612 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
3613 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
3615 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
3616 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
3618 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3619 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
3620 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
3621 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
3622 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
3623 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
3624 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
3625 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
3627 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3628 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
3629 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
3632 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
3633 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
3634 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
3635 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3637 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
3638 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
3639 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3640 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
3641 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
3642 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
3643 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
3644 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
3645 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
3648 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3649 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
3650 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3651 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
3652 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
3653 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
3654 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3656 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
3657 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
3658 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
3659 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
3660 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
3661 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3664 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
3665 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
3666 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
3667 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3668 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
3669 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
3671 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
3672 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
3673 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3676 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
3677 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3678 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
3679 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
3680 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
3681 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
3682 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
3685 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
3686 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
3687 section. Closes ticket 24254.
3690 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
3691 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
3692 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
3693 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
3696 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
3697 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
3698 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
3699 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
3700 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
3701 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
3704 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
3705 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
3706 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
3707 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
3708 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3710 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
3711 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
3712 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
3713 Closes ticket 23753.
3715 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
3716 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
3717 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
3718 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
3719 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
3721 o Minor features (testing):
3722 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
3723 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
3725 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
3726 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
3727 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
3728 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
3729 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3731 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
3732 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
3733 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
3734 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
3735 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
3738 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
3739 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
3740 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
3741 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
3742 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3744 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
3745 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
3746 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
3747 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3749 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3750 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
3751 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
3753 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
3754 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3755 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
3757 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3758 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
3759 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
3760 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3761 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
3762 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3764 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
3765 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
3766 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
3767 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
3768 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
3769 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
3770 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3771 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
3772 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
3773 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3774 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
3775 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
3777 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
3778 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
3779 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
3780 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
3781 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3783 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3784 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
3785 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3786 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
3787 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
3788 Closes ticket 24109.
3791 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
3792 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
3793 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
3794 directory authority, Bastet.
3796 o Directory authority changes:
3797 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3798 Closes ticket 23910.
3799 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3800 Closes ticket 23592.
3802 o Minor features (bridge):
3803 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
3804 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
3805 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
3806 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
3807 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
3808 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
3809 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
3811 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
3812 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
3813 Resolves ticket 23670.
3815 o Minor features (geoip):
3816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3819 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
3820 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
3821 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
3822 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3824 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3825 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
3826 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3828 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
3829 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
3830 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
3831 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
3832 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
3833 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3835 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
3836 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
3837 only fetch the service descriptor once.
3838 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
3839 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
3840 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3842 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
3843 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
3844 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
3845 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
3847 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
3848 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
3849 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3851 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
3852 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
3853 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
3854 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
3855 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
3857 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
3858 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
3859 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3861 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3862 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
3863 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
3866 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3867 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
3868 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
3869 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
3870 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3871 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
3872 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
3873 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
3875 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
3876 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
3877 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
3878 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
3879 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
3882 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
3883 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
3884 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
3885 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
3886 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
3890 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
3891 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3892 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3894 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
3895 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
3896 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3898 o Directory authority changes:
3899 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3900 Closes ticket 23910.
3901 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3902 Closes ticket 23592.
3904 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3905 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
3906 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
3907 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
3908 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
3910 o Minor features (geoip):
3911 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3914 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
3915 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
3916 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
3917 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
3918 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
3919 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
3920 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
3921 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
3922 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
3924 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3925 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
3926 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
3927 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
3928 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
3929 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
3930 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
3931 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
3932 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
3935 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
3936 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3937 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3938 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3940 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
3941 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
3942 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
3944 o Directory authority changes:
3945 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3946 Closes ticket 23910.
3947 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3948 Closes ticket 23592.
3950 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3951 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3952 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3953 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3955 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3956 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3957 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3958 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3959 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3961 o Minor features (geoip):
3962 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3966 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
3967 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
3968 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
3969 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
3971 o Directory authority changes:
3972 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
3973 Closes ticket 23910.
3974 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
3975 Closes ticket 23592.
3977 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3978 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
3979 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
3980 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3982 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
3983 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
3984 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
3985 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
3986 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
3988 o Minor features (geoip):
3989 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
3992 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
3993 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
3994 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
3995 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
3996 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
3997 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
3998 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
3999 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4002 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4003 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4004 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4006 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4007 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4008 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4009 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4010 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4011 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4012 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4015 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
4016 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
4017 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
4018 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
4020 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
4021 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
4022 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
4024 o Directory authority changes:
4025 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4026 Closes ticket 23910.
4027 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4028 Closes ticket 23592.
4030 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4031 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4032 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4033 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4035 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4036 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4037 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4038 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4039 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4041 o Minor features (geoip):
4042 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4045 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4046 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
4047 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
4048 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
4049 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
4050 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
4051 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
4052 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
4055 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4056 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4057 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4058 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4060 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4061 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4062 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4064 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4065 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
4066 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
4067 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
4068 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
4069 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4070 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
4073 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
4074 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
4075 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
4076 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
4077 a new directory authority, Bastet.
4079 o Directory authority changes:
4080 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
4081 Closes ticket 23910.
4082 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
4083 Closes ticket 23592.
4085 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4086 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4087 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4088 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4090 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4091 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4092 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4093 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4094 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4096 o Minor features (geoip):
4097 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4100 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4101 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
4102 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4103 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
4105 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4106 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
4107 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
4110 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
4111 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
4112 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
4114 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4115 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4116 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4117 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4119 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
4120 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
4121 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4123 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
4124 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
4125 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
4129 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
4130 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
4131 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
4132 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
4133 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
4134 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
4136 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
4137 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
4138 include better testing and logging.
4140 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
4143 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
4144 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
4145 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
4146 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4148 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
4149 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
4150 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
4151 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
4152 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
4153 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
4154 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4156 o Minor features (build, compilation):
4157 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
4158 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
4159 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
4160 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
4161 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
4162 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
4163 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
4164 Closes ticket 23643.
4166 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4167 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
4168 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
4169 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
4170 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
4172 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
4173 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
4174 the circuit identifier(s).
4175 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
4176 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
4178 o Minor features (logging):
4179 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
4180 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
4181 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
4182 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
4183 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
4185 o Minor features (relay):
4186 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
4187 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
4188 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
4189 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
4191 o Minor features (robustness):
4192 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
4193 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
4195 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
4196 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
4197 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
4198 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
4199 related to ticket 23080.
4201 o Minor features (testing):
4202 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
4203 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
4206 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
4207 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
4208 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
4210 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
4211 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
4214 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
4215 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
4216 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
4217 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
4218 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
4219 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
4220 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
4221 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
4222 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4224 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
4225 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
4226 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
4229 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4230 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
4231 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
4232 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4234 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
4235 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
4236 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
4237 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
4238 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4239 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
4240 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
4241 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
4244 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
4245 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
4246 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
4247 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4249 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
4250 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
4251 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
4252 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
4253 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
4254 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4256 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4257 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
4258 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
4259 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4260 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
4261 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
4262 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4263 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
4264 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4265 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
4266 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
4268 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
4269 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
4270 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
4271 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4272 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
4273 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4275 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4276 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
4277 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
4279 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
4280 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
4282 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
4283 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
4284 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4286 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4287 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
4288 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
4291 o Deprecated features:
4292 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
4293 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
4294 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
4297 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
4298 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4299 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
4300 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
4301 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
4302 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
4303 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
4304 Closes ticket 18736.
4307 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
4308 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
4309 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
4310 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
4311 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
4312 features and bugfixes here.
4314 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
4316 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
4317 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
4318 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
4319 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
4320 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
4321 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
4322 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
4323 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
4324 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
4325 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
4326 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
4327 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
4329 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
4330 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
4331 more information, see the design paper at
4332 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
4333 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
4334 Closes ticket 12541.
4336 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
4337 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
4338 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
4339 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
4340 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
4341 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
4344 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
4345 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
4347 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
4350 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
4353 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
4355 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
4357 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
4359 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
4360 they are 56 characters long, as in
4361 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
4363 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
4364 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
4365 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
4366 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
4367 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
4370 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
4371 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
4372 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
4373 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
4374 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
4375 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
4378 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
4379 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
4380 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
4381 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
4383 o Minor features (bug detection):
4384 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
4385 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
4386 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
4388 o Minor features (client):
4389 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
4390 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
4391 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
4392 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
4393 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
4394 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
4395 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
4396 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
4397 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
4398 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
4400 o Minor features (command line):
4401 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
4402 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
4403 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
4405 o Minor features (control port):
4406 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
4407 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
4408 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
4410 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
4411 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
4413 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
4414 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
4415 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
4416 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
4417 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
4418 Closes ticket 23237.
4419 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
4420 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
4422 o Minor features (development support):
4423 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
4424 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
4425 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
4426 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
4427 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
4428 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
4430 o Minor features (ed25519):
4431 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
4432 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
4433 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
4435 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
4436 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
4437 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
4439 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
4440 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
4441 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
4442 another program, regardless of the settings of
4443 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
4444 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
4445 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
4447 o Minor features (logging):
4448 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
4449 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
4450 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
4452 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
4453 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
4455 o Minor features (portability):
4456 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
4457 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
4458 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
4459 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
4461 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
4462 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
4463 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
4464 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
4465 results. Closes ticket 22731.
4467 o Minor features (startup, safety):
4468 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
4469 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
4472 o Minor features (static analysis):
4473 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
4474 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
4477 o Minor features (testing):
4478 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
4479 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
4480 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
4481 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
4482 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
4484 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
4485 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
4486 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
4487 Coverity as CID 1415728.
4489 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
4490 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
4491 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
4492 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
4493 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
4494 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
4495 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
4496 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4498 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
4499 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
4500 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
4501 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
4502 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4503 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
4504 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
4505 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
4507 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4508 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
4509 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4511 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
4512 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
4513 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
4514 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
4516 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
4517 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
4518 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
4519 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
4520 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
4521 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
4523 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
4524 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
4527 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
4528 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
4529 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
4530 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4532 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
4533 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
4534 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
4535 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
4536 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
4537 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
4538 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
4541 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
4542 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
4543 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
4544 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4546 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
4547 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
4548 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
4550 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4551 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
4552 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
4553 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4554 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
4555 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
4557 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
4558 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
4559 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
4561 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
4562 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
4563 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
4565 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
4566 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
4567 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
4568 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
4570 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4571 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
4572 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4574 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4575 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
4576 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
4577 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
4578 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
4579 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
4580 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
4581 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4583 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4584 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
4585 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
4586 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
4587 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
4588 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
4589 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4591 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
4592 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
4593 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
4594 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4596 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4597 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
4598 function from the general code to handle channel state
4599 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
4600 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
4601 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
4602 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
4603 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
4604 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
4605 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
4606 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
4608 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
4609 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
4611 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
4612 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
4613 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
4614 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
4615 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
4616 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
4617 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
4618 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
4619 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
4620 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
4621 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
4622 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
4624 o Deprecated features:
4625 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
4626 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
4627 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
4631 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
4632 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
4633 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
4634 Closes ticket 15645.
4635 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
4636 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
4637 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
4638 file. Closes ticket 21148.
4641 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
4642 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
4643 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
4644 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
4645 Closes ticket 21031.
4646 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
4647 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
4650 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
4651 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
4654 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
4655 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
4656 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
4657 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4659 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
4660 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
4661 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
4662 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
4664 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4665 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4666 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4667 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4668 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4674 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4675 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
4676 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
4679 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4680 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4681 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4682 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4683 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4684 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4685 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4686 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4687 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4689 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4690 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4691 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4692 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4693 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4694 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4695 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4696 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4697 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4700 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
4701 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
4704 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
4705 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
4706 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
4707 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4709 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
4710 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
4711 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
4712 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
4713 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
4714 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
4715 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
4717 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
4718 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
4719 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
4720 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
4722 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
4723 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
4724 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4726 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4727 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
4728 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4729 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
4731 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4732 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
4733 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
4734 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
4735 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
4737 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
4738 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
4739 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
4740 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
4742 o Minor features (geoip):
4743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4746 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4747 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
4748 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4749 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
4751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4752 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
4753 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4754 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
4755 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4756 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
4757 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
4758 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4760 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4761 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
4762 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4765 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
4766 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
4769 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4770 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4771 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4772 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
4773 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4775 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4776 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
4777 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
4778 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
4779 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
4780 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4782 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4783 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
4784 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
4785 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
4786 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
4787 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
4788 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
4789 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
4790 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
4792 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4793 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
4794 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
4795 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4797 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4798 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
4799 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4801 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
4802 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
4803 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
4804 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
4805 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4807 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
4808 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
4809 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
4812 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
4813 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
4814 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
4815 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
4816 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4818 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4819 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
4820 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
4821 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
4822 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
4823 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
4824 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
4825 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
4826 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
4829 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
4830 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
4833 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
4834 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
4835 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
4836 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4838 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4839 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
4840 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
4841 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
4844 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4847 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4848 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
4849 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4851 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
4852 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4853 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4854 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
4855 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4857 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
4858 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
4859 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
4860 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4862 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
4863 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
4864 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
4866 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
4867 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
4868 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
4869 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4872 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
4873 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
4875 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
4876 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
4877 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
4878 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
4879 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
4880 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
4881 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
4883 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
4884 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
4885 disabled. For more information, see
4886 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
4888 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
4889 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
4890 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
4891 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
4892 with the 0.2.9 series.
4894 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
4895 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4897 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
4898 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
4899 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
4900 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
4901 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
4903 o Minor features (defensive programming):
4904 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
4905 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
4906 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
4909 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4910 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
4911 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
4912 attempt for bug 23105.
4914 o Minor features (geoip):
4915 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4918 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4919 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
4920 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4922 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4923 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
4924 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4925 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
4926 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4928 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4929 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
4930 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
4931 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4933 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4934 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
4935 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
4939 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
4940 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
4941 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
4942 Windows directory caches.
4944 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
4945 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
4946 will be nearly identical to it.
4948 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
4949 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
4950 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
4951 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
4952 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
4953 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4955 o Minor features (directory authority):
4956 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
4957 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
4958 Closes ticket 22348.
4960 o Minor features (geoip):
4961 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
4964 o Minor features (testing):
4965 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
4968 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
4969 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
4970 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4972 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
4973 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
4974 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
4975 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
4976 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
4977 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
4978 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
4979 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
4980 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
4981 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4983 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
4984 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
4985 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
4987 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
4988 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
4989 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
4990 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
4992 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4993 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
4994 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
4995 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
4996 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4998 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
4999 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
5000 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
5001 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
5002 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
5003 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
5005 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
5006 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
5007 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
5008 with the clang static analyzer.
5010 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5011 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
5012 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
5013 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
5014 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
5017 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
5018 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
5019 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
5020 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
5021 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
5022 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5023 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
5026 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
5027 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
5028 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
5029 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
5031 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5032 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5033 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5034 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5035 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5036 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5037 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5038 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5039 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5041 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5042 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5043 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5044 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5046 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5047 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5048 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5049 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5050 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5052 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5053 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5056 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
5057 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5058 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5059 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5062 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
5063 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5064 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
5065 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5066 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
5067 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
5068 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
5071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5072 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
5073 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
5076 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5077 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5078 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5079 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5080 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5081 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5084 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
5085 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
5086 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5088 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
5089 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5090 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5092 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
5093 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
5094 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5097 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
5098 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
5099 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
5100 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
5101 next version will be a release candidate.
5103 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
5104 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
5105 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
5106 one of those versions should upgrade.
5108 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
5109 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
5110 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
5111 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
5112 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
5113 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
5114 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
5115 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
5116 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
5118 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
5119 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
5120 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
5121 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
5122 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
5124 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
5125 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
5126 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
5127 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
5128 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
5129 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5131 o Minor features (bridge authority):
5132 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
5133 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
5135 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
5136 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
5137 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
5138 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
5139 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
5142 o Minor features (geoip):
5143 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5146 o Minor features (relay, performance):
5147 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
5148 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
5149 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
5150 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
5151 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
5154 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
5155 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
5156 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
5157 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
5158 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
5160 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
5161 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
5162 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
5163 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
5164 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5166 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
5167 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
5168 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5169 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
5170 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5171 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
5172 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
5173 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5174 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
5175 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
5176 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
5179 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
5180 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
5181 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
5182 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
5183 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
5184 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5186 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
5187 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
5188 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
5189 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
5190 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
5191 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
5192 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
5193 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
5196 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
5197 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
5198 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
5201 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
5202 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
5203 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
5204 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5206 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5207 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
5208 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5210 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5211 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
5212 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
5213 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
5215 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5216 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
5217 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
5218 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
5219 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5220 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
5221 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5224 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
5225 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
5226 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
5227 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
5228 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
5231 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
5232 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
5236 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
5237 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
5238 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
5239 close ticket 22623.)
5241 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
5242 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
5243 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
5244 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
5245 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
5246 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
5248 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
5249 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
5250 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
5251 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5253 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
5254 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
5255 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
5256 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
5257 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5259 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
5260 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
5261 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
5262 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5264 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
5265 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
5266 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
5267 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
5269 o Minor features (geoip):
5270 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5273 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
5274 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
5275 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
5277 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
5278 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5279 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
5280 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
5281 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
5282 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
5284 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
5285 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
5287 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
5288 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
5289 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
5290 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
5291 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5293 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
5294 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
5295 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
5296 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
5297 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5298 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5299 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5300 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5301 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5302 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5303 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5304 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5306 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5307 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5308 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5309 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5310 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5311 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
5312 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
5313 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
5314 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5316 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5317 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
5318 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
5319 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5320 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
5321 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
5322 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5323 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
5324 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
5325 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
5326 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5327 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
5328 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
5329 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
5330 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
5331 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5333 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
5334 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
5335 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
5336 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
5337 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
5338 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
5339 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
5343 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
5345 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
5346 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
5348 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
5349 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
5350 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
5354 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
5355 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
5356 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
5357 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
5358 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
5361 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
5364 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5365 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
5366 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
5367 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
5368 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
5369 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
5371 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5372 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
5373 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
5374 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5376 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5377 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
5378 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
5379 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5381 o Minor features (geoip):
5382 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5385 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5386 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
5387 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
5388 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
5389 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5391 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5392 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
5393 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
5394 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
5395 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5397 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
5398 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
5399 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
5400 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
5401 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
5402 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
5403 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
5404 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
5405 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
5408 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
5409 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
5410 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5411 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5412 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
5414 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
5415 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
5416 bugfixes described below.
5418 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5419 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
5420 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
5421 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5422 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5423 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5424 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5427 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
5428 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
5429 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
5430 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
5431 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
5432 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
5433 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
5436 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
5437 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
5438 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
5439 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
5440 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
5441 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
5442 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
5443 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5444 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
5445 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
5446 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
5447 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
5448 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
5451 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
5452 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
5453 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
5455 o Minor features (code style):
5456 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
5457 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
5458 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
5460 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5461 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
5462 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
5463 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
5464 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
5466 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5467 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5468 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5470 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
5471 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
5472 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5474 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
5475 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
5476 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
5477 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
5478 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
5479 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
5480 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5482 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
5483 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
5484 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
5485 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
5486 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5488 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5489 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
5490 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
5494 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
5497 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
5498 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
5499 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5500 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5501 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
5503 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
5504 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
5505 bugfixes described below.
5507 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
5508 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5509 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
5510 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
5511 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5512 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5513 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5514 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5517 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5518 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
5519 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
5520 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
5521 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
5522 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
5523 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
5526 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5527 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
5528 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
5529 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
5530 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
5531 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
5532 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
5533 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5534 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
5535 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
5536 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
5537 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
5538 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
5541 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5542 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
5543 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
5546 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5547 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5548 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5549 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5550 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5552 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
5553 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
5554 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5556 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5557 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5558 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5560 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5561 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
5562 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
5563 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
5564 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
5565 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
5566 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5568 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
5570 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
5571 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
5572 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5575 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
5576 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5577 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5578 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5579 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5580 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5582 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
5583 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
5584 bugfixes described below.
5586 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
5587 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5588 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5589 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5590 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5593 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5594 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
5595 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
5596 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
5597 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
5598 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
5599 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
5602 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5603 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5604 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5605 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5606 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5608 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
5609 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
5610 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
5611 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
5612 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
5613 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
5614 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
5616 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
5617 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
5618 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
5619 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
5620 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
5622 o Minor features (geoip):
5623 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5626 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
5627 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
5628 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
5629 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5631 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5632 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5633 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5635 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
5636 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
5637 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
5638 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
5639 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
5642 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
5643 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
5644 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
5645 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
5646 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5648 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
5649 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5650 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5651 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5652 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5653 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5655 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5656 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5657 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5658 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5661 o Minor features (geoip):
5662 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5665 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
5666 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5667 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5668 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5669 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5671 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5672 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5673 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5675 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
5676 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5677 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5678 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5679 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5680 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5682 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5683 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5684 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5685 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5688 o Minor features (geoip):
5689 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5692 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5693 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5694 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5697 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
5698 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5699 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5700 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5701 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5702 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5704 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5705 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5706 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5707 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5710 o Minor features (geoip):
5711 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5714 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5715 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5716 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5718 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
5719 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5720 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5721 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5722 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5723 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5725 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5726 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5727 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5728 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5731 o Minor features (geoip):
5732 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5735 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5736 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5737 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5739 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
5740 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
5741 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
5742 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
5743 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
5744 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
5746 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
5747 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
5748 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
5749 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
5752 o Minor features (geoip):
5753 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
5756 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5757 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
5758 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
5761 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
5762 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
5763 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
5764 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
5766 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
5767 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
5768 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
5769 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
5770 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5772 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5773 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
5774 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
5777 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
5778 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
5779 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
5780 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5783 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
5784 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
5785 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
5786 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
5787 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
5790 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
5791 security, correctness, and performance.
5793 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
5795 o Major features (directory protocol):
5796 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
5797 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
5798 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
5799 now request these documents when available. When both client and
5800 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
5801 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
5802 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
5803 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
5804 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
5805 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
5806 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
5807 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
5808 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
5809 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
5810 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
5811 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
5812 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
5814 o Major features (experimental):
5815 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
5816 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
5817 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
5818 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
5819 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
5820 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
5821 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
5823 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
5824 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
5825 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
5826 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
5827 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
5828 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
5831 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
5832 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
5833 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
5834 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
5835 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
5836 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
5837 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
5838 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
5839 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
5840 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
5843 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
5844 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
5845 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
5846 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
5847 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
5848 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
5849 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
5850 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
5851 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
5852 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
5853 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
5854 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
5855 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
5856 Otherwise it is at info.
5858 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
5859 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
5860 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
5861 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
5863 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
5864 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
5865 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5866 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
5868 o Minor features (security, windows):
5869 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
5870 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
5871 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
5872 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
5873 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
5875 o Minor features (config options):
5876 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
5877 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
5878 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
5879 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
5880 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
5881 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
5882 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
5883 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
5885 o Minor features (controller):
5886 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
5887 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
5889 o Minor features (defaults):
5890 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
5891 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
5892 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
5893 can. Closes ticket 21407.
5894 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
5895 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
5896 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
5897 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
5898 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
5899 Closes ticket 21641.
5901 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5902 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
5903 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
5904 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
5905 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
5906 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
5907 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
5909 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
5910 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
5911 introduction points than specified in
5912 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
5913 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
5914 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
5915 21594; closes ticket 21622.
5916 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
5917 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
5918 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
5919 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
5921 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5922 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
5923 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
5924 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
5925 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
5926 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
5927 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
5928 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
5929 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
5930 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
5932 o Minor features (logging):
5933 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
5934 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
5935 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
5936 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
5939 o Minor features (performance):
5940 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
5941 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
5943 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
5944 speed some controller functions.
5946 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
5947 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
5948 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
5949 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
5951 o Minor features (safety):
5952 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
5953 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
5954 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
5957 o Minor features (testing):
5958 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
5959 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
5960 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
5961 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
5962 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
5963 on. Closes ticket 21439.
5964 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
5965 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
5966 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
5967 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
5968 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
5969 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
5970 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
5971 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
5972 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
5973 21507. Partially implements 21470.
5975 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
5976 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
5977 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5978 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
5980 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5981 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
5982 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
5983 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
5986 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5987 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
5988 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5990 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
5991 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
5992 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
5993 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
5994 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
5995 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
5996 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
5997 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
5998 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
5999 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
6000 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
6001 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
6002 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
6003 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
6005 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6006 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
6007 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6008 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
6009 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
6010 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
6011 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
6012 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6014 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6015 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
6016 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
6017 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6018 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
6019 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
6020 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6022 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
6023 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
6024 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
6025 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
6026 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
6028 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
6029 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
6030 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6031 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
6032 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
6033 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6034 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
6035 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6036 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
6037 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
6038 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6040 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6041 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
6042 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
6043 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6044 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
6045 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
6046 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
6049 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
6050 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
6052 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
6053 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
6054 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
6055 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
6056 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
6058 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6059 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
6060 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
6061 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6062 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
6063 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6064 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
6065 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
6066 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
6067 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
6069 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
6070 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
6071 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
6072 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
6073 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6075 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
6076 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
6077 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6079 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6080 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
6081 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
6082 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
6083 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
6084 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
6085 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
6086 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
6087 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
6088 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
6089 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
6090 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
6092 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
6093 Resolves ticket 22213.
6094 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
6095 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
6096 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
6097 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
6098 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
6099 types. Closes ticket 21651.
6100 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
6101 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
6104 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
6105 Closes ticket 21873.
6106 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
6107 Closes ticket 21151.
6108 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
6109 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
6111 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
6112 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6113 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
6114 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
6116 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
6117 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
6118 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
6119 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
6120 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
6121 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
6122 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
6123 default behavior is now unavailable.
6124 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
6125 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
6126 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
6127 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
6128 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
6129 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
6130 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
6132 o Removed features (tools):
6133 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
6134 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
6135 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
6136 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
6137 required. Closes ticket 21842.
6140 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
6141 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
6142 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
6143 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
6144 clients are not affected.
6146 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
6147 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
6148 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
6149 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
6150 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
6151 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6154 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6157 o Minor features (future-proofing):
6158 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
6159 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
6160 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
6161 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
6162 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
6163 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
6165 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6166 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
6167 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
6168 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
6169 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
6173 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
6174 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
6176 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
6177 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
6178 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
6179 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
6180 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
6181 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
6184 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
6185 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
6187 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
6188 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
6189 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
6190 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
6191 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
6193 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
6194 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6196 o Minor features (geoip):
6197 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6200 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6201 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
6202 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
6203 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6205 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
6206 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
6207 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
6208 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6211 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
6212 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
6213 0.3.0 release series.
6215 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
6216 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
6217 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
6220 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
6221 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
6222 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
6223 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6225 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
6226 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
6227 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
6228 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6229 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
6231 o Minor features (geoip):
6232 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6235 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
6236 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
6237 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
6238 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
6241 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6242 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
6243 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
6244 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6245 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
6246 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
6247 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
6248 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6251 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
6252 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6254 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6255 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
6256 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
6259 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6260 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
6261 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
6262 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
6263 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6266 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
6267 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
6268 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
6272 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
6273 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
6274 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
6275 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6276 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
6279 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
6280 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
6281 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6283 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6284 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6285 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6286 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6287 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6288 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6289 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6291 o Minor features (geoip):
6292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6296 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
6297 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6298 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
6299 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6302 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
6303 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
6304 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6306 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6307 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6309 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6310 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6311 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6313 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6314 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6315 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6318 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6319 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6320 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6321 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6322 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6323 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6324 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6325 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6326 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6328 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6329 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
6330 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
6331 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
6332 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6333 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6334 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6335 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6336 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6337 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6338 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6339 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6340 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6342 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6343 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6344 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6345 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6346 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6348 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6349 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6350 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6352 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6353 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6354 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6355 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6356 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6357 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6358 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6361 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6362 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6363 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6364 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6365 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6366 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6367 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6369 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6370 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6371 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6372 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6375 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6376 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6377 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6378 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6380 o Minor features (geoip):
6381 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6385 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
6386 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6387 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
6388 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6391 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
6392 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
6393 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6395 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6396 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6398 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6399 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6400 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6402 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6403 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6404 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6407 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6408 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6409 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6410 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6411 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6412 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6413 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6414 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6415 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6417 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6418 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6419 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6420 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6421 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6422 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6423 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6424 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6425 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6427 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6428 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
6429 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
6430 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
6431 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6433 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
6434 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6435 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6436 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6437 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6440 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6441 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6442 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6443 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6444 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6446 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6447 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6448 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6450 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6451 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6452 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6453 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6454 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6455 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6458 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6459 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6460 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6461 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6462 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6463 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6464 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6467 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6468 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6469 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6470 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6471 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6472 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6473 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6475 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6476 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6477 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6478 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6481 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6482 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6483 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6484 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6486 o Minor features (geoip):
6487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6490 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6491 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6492 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6495 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
6496 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6497 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
6498 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6501 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
6502 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
6503 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6505 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6506 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6508 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6509 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6510 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6512 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6513 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6514 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6517 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6518 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6519 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6520 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6521 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6522 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6523 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6524 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6525 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6527 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6528 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6529 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6530 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6531 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6532 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6533 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6534 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6535 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6537 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6538 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
6539 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
6540 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
6541 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6543 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
6544 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6545 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6546 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6547 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6550 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6551 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6552 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6553 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6554 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6556 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6557 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6558 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6560 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6561 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6562 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6563 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6564 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6565 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6568 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6569 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6570 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6571 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6572 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6573 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6574 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6577 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6578 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6579 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6580 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6581 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6582 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6583 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6585 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6586 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6587 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6588 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6591 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6592 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6593 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6594 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6596 o Minor features (geoip):
6597 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6600 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6601 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6602 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
6605 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
6606 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
6607 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
6608 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
6609 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
6611 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
6612 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
6613 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
6617 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
6618 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
6619 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
6620 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
6623 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
6624 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
6625 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
6627 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
6628 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
6630 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
6631 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6632 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
6634 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6635 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
6636 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
6639 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
6640 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
6641 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
6642 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
6643 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
6644 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
6645 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
6646 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
6647 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
6649 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
6650 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
6651 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
6652 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
6653 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
6654 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
6655 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
6656 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
6657 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
6659 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
6660 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
6661 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
6662 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
6663 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
6666 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6667 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
6668 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
6669 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
6670 Reported by Guido Vranken.
6672 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6673 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
6674 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
6676 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6677 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
6678 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
6679 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
6680 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
6681 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
6684 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
6685 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
6686 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
6687 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
6688 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
6689 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
6690 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
6693 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
6694 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6695 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6696 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6697 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6698 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6699 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6701 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
6702 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
6703 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
6704 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
6707 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
6708 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
6709 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
6710 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
6712 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
6713 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
6714 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
6715 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
6717 o Minor features (geoip):
6718 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
6722 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
6723 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
6725 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
6726 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
6727 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
6731 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
6732 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
6733 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
6734 keep them from coming back.
6736 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
6737 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
6738 will be nearly identical to it.
6740 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6741 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
6742 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
6743 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
6744 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
6745 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6747 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
6748 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
6749 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6751 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
6752 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
6753 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
6754 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
6755 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
6756 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
6757 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
6758 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
6759 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
6760 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6761 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6762 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6763 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6764 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6765 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6767 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
6768 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
6769 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
6771 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6772 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
6773 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
6775 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
6776 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
6777 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6778 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
6779 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
6780 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
6781 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
6783 o Minor features (geoip):
6784 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6787 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
6788 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
6789 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
6792 o Minor features (testing):
6793 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
6794 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
6795 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
6797 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
6798 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
6799 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
6801 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
6802 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
6803 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
6804 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
6805 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
6806 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6808 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6809 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
6810 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
6811 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6812 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
6813 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
6814 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
6817 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6818 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
6819 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
6820 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6821 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
6822 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
6823 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6825 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
6826 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
6827 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
6828 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
6829 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
6830 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6832 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6833 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
6834 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
6836 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
6837 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
6838 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
6839 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
6840 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6843 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
6846 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
6847 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
6848 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
6849 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
6851 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
6852 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
6853 least January of 2020.
6855 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6856 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
6857 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
6858 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
6861 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6862 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
6863 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
6864 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
6865 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
6866 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
6867 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6869 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6870 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
6871 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
6872 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
6873 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
6874 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
6875 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
6877 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6878 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
6879 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
6881 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
6882 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
6883 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
6885 o Minor features (geoip):
6886 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6889 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6890 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
6891 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
6893 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
6894 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
6896 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
6897 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
6898 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
6900 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
6901 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
6902 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
6903 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6904 Patch by "junglefowl".
6907 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
6908 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
6909 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
6910 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
6911 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
6912 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
6914 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
6915 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
6916 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
6919 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6920 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
6921 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
6922 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
6924 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
6925 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
6926 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
6927 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
6928 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6930 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
6931 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
6932 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
6933 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
6934 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6936 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
6937 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
6938 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
6939 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
6940 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
6941 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
6942 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6944 o Minor feature (client):
6945 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
6946 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
6948 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
6949 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
6950 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
6951 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
6953 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
6954 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
6955 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
6956 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
6957 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
6959 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
6960 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
6961 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
6962 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
6963 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
6964 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
6965 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
6966 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
6967 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
6968 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
6970 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
6971 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
6972 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
6974 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
6975 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
6977 o Minor features (relay):
6978 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
6979 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
6980 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
6981 Written by Michael Sonntag.
6983 o Minor bugfix (logging):
6984 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
6985 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
6986 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
6987 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
6990 o Minor bugfixes (client):
6991 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
6992 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
6993 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6995 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
6996 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
6997 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
6999 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
7000 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7001 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
7002 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
7003 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7004 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
7005 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
7007 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
7008 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
7009 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
7010 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
7011 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
7012 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
7013 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
7016 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7017 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
7018 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7020 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7021 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
7022 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
7023 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
7024 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7025 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
7026 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
7027 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
7029 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
7030 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
7031 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7033 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7034 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
7035 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
7036 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
7038 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
7039 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
7040 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
7041 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7043 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7044 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
7045 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
7046 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7047 Patch by "junglefowl".
7049 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
7050 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
7051 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
7055 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
7056 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
7057 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
7058 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
7059 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
7060 version should upgrade.
7062 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
7063 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
7064 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
7065 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
7066 the set of fallback directories, and more.
7068 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
7069 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
7070 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
7071 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
7072 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
7073 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
7076 o Major features (security):
7077 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
7078 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
7079 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
7080 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
7081 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
7082 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
7084 o Major features (directory authority, security):
7085 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
7086 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
7087 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
7089 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
7090 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
7091 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
7092 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
7093 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
7096 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
7097 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
7098 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
7099 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
7100 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
7101 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
7102 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
7103 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
7104 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
7105 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
7106 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7108 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
7109 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
7110 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7112 o Minor features (controller):
7113 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
7114 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
7116 o Minor features (entry guards):
7117 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
7118 break regression tests.
7119 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
7120 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
7122 o Minor features (fallback directories):
7123 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
7125 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
7126 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
7127 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
7128 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
7129 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
7130 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
7131 Closes ticket 20539.
7132 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
7134 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
7135 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
7136 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
7137 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
7138 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
7140 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
7141 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
7142 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
7143 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
7144 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
7145 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
7146 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
7147 Closes ticket 20822.
7148 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
7149 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
7151 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
7152 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7155 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
7156 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
7157 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
7158 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
7160 o Minor features (linting):
7161 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
7162 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
7164 o Minor features (logging):
7165 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
7166 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
7168 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
7169 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
7170 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
7171 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
7172 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
7173 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
7175 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
7176 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
7177 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
7178 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
7180 o Minor bugfixes (build):
7181 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
7182 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
7185 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
7186 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
7187 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
7188 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7190 o Minor bugfixes (config):
7191 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
7192 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
7193 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
7194 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7196 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7197 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
7198 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
7201 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
7202 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
7203 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
7204 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
7205 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7207 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7208 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
7209 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
7211 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
7212 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
7213 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7214 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
7215 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
7216 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
7217 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
7218 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
7219 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
7221 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
7222 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
7223 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
7224 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7227 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
7228 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
7229 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7230 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
7231 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7233 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7234 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
7235 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7236 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
7237 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
7238 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
7239 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
7240 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
7242 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7243 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
7244 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7246 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
7247 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
7248 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
7249 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
7251 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
7252 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7254 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7255 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
7256 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
7257 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
7258 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
7260 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7261 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
7262 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7264 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7265 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
7266 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
7267 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
7268 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7270 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7271 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
7272 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
7274 o Documentation (formatting):
7275 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
7276 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
7278 o Documentation (man page):
7279 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
7280 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
7283 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
7284 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
7285 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
7286 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
7287 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
7288 version should upgrade.
7290 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
7291 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
7293 o Major bugfixes (security):
7294 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
7295 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
7296 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
7297 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
7298 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
7299 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7301 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
7302 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
7303 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
7304 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
7305 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
7306 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
7307 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
7308 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
7309 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
7310 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
7311 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7313 o Minor features (geoip):
7314 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7317 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7318 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
7319 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
7320 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
7322 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
7323 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7326 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
7327 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
7328 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
7329 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
7330 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
7331 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
7332 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
7333 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
7335 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
7337 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
7338 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
7339 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
7340 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
7341 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
7344 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
7345 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
7346 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
7347 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
7348 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
7349 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
7350 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
7351 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
7354 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
7355 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
7356 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
7357 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
7358 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
7360 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
7361 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
7362 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
7363 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
7364 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
7365 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
7366 15056; part of proposal 220.
7367 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
7368 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
7369 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
7370 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
7371 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
7373 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
7374 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
7375 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
7376 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
7377 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7379 o Minor features (controller):
7380 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
7381 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
7384 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
7385 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
7386 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
7389 o Minor features (directory authority):
7390 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
7391 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
7392 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
7393 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
7394 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
7396 o Minor features (directory cache):
7397 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
7398 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
7401 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
7402 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
7403 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
7404 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
7406 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
7407 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
7408 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
7409 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
7411 o Minor features (infrastructure):
7412 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
7413 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
7415 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7416 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
7417 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
7418 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
7420 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7421 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
7422 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7423 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
7424 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
7425 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
7427 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
7428 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
7429 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
7430 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
7431 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
7433 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
7434 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
7435 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
7436 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
7437 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7439 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
7440 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
7441 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
7442 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
7443 on all recent tor versions.
7444 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
7445 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
7446 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
7447 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
7449 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
7450 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
7451 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7453 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7454 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
7455 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
7456 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
7459 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
7460 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
7461 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
7464 o Minor bugfixes (util):
7465 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
7466 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
7467 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
7468 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
7470 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
7471 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
7472 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
7473 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
7475 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7476 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
7477 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
7478 Closes ticket 19858.
7479 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
7480 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
7481 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
7482 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
7483 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
7484 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
7485 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
7486 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
7487 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
7488 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
7489 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
7490 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
7491 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
7492 redundant with the similar structures used in the
7493 channel abstraction.
7494 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
7495 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
7496 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
7497 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
7498 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
7499 replaced with code automatically generated by the
7503 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
7504 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7505 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
7506 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
7508 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
7509 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
7511 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
7512 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
7513 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
7514 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
7515 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
7519 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
7520 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
7521 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
7523 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
7524 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
7525 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
7528 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
7529 from "overcaffeinated".
7530 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
7531 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
7532 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
7533 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
7534 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
7538 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
7539 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
7540 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
7541 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
7542 become available for their systems.
7544 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
7547 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
7548 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
7550 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
7551 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7552 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7553 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7554 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7555 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7556 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7557 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7558 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7560 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
7561 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
7562 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
7563 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
7564 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
7566 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
7567 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7571 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
7572 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
7574 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
7575 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
7576 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
7577 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
7578 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
7579 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
7580 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
7581 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
7583 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
7585 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
7586 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
7587 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
7588 become available for their systems.
7590 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
7591 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7593 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
7594 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
7595 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
7596 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
7597 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
7598 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
7599 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
7600 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
7601 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
7603 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7604 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
7605 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
7606 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
7607 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
7610 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
7611 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
7612 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
7615 o Minor features (geoip):
7616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7619 o Minor bugfix (build):
7620 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
7621 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
7622 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7624 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7625 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
7626 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
7627 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7629 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
7630 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
7631 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
7633 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7634 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
7635 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
7638 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7639 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
7640 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7641 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
7642 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
7643 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
7645 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7646 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
7647 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
7648 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7650 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7651 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
7652 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
7654 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7655 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
7656 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
7657 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
7658 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
7659 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
7660 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7661 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
7662 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
7663 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
7666 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
7667 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
7668 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
7669 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
7672 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7673 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
7674 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
7675 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
7676 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
7677 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
7680 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7681 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
7682 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
7685 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
7686 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
7687 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
7688 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
7690 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7691 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
7692 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
7693 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
7696 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7697 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
7698 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
7699 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
7702 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
7703 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
7704 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
7707 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7708 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
7709 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7711 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
7712 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
7713 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7715 o Minor features (geoip):
7716 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7719 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
7720 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
7721 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
7722 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
7723 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
7725 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
7726 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
7727 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
7728 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
7729 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
7730 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7732 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
7733 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
7734 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7736 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7737 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
7738 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
7739 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
7740 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
7741 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
7743 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7744 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
7745 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
7747 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
7748 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7750 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7751 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
7752 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
7753 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
7754 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
7755 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
7757 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7758 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
7759 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
7763 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
7764 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
7767 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
7768 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
7769 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
7770 everyone to test this release.
7772 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
7773 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
7774 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
7775 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
7778 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
7779 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
7780 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
7781 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
7784 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
7785 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
7786 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
7787 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
7788 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7789 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
7790 download, stop waiting for certificates.
7791 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
7792 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
7793 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
7795 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
7796 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
7797 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
7798 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7799 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
7800 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7801 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
7802 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
7803 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7804 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
7805 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
7806 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
7808 o Minor features (geoip):
7809 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7812 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
7813 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
7814 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
7815 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
7816 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
7817 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7819 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
7820 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
7821 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
7822 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7823 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
7824 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7826 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7827 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
7828 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
7829 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
7832 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7833 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
7834 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
7835 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
7836 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
7837 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7838 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
7839 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7841 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
7842 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
7843 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7845 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7846 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
7847 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
7848 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
7849 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7850 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
7851 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
7852 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7854 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7855 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
7856 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
7859 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7860 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
7861 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7864 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
7865 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7866 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
7867 tickets 19287 and 19290.
7870 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
7871 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
7872 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
7873 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
7874 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
7877 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
7878 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7879 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7880 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7881 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7882 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7883 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7884 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7885 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7887 o Minor features (geoip):
7888 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7892 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
7893 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
7894 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
7895 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
7896 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
7899 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
7900 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
7901 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
7902 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
7903 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
7904 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
7905 be a release candidate.
7907 o Major features (security fixes):
7908 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
7909 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
7910 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
7911 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
7912 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
7913 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
7914 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
7915 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
7917 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
7918 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
7919 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
7920 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
7921 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
7922 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
7923 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
7924 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
7925 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
7926 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
7927 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
7928 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
7929 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
7930 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
7933 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
7934 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
7935 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
7937 o Minor features (client, directory):
7938 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
7939 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
7940 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
7943 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
7944 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
7947 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
7948 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
7949 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
7952 o Minor features (geoip):
7953 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
7956 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
7957 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
7958 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
7959 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
7960 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
7962 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
7963 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
7964 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
7965 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
7968 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
7969 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
7970 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
7971 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
7972 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
7974 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
7975 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
7976 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
7979 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
7980 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
7981 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
7982 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
7984 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7985 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
7986 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
7987 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
7989 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
7990 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
7991 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
7992 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
7995 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7996 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
7997 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
8001 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
8002 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
8004 o Required libraries:
8005 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
8006 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
8007 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
8010 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
8011 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
8012 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
8013 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
8014 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
8015 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
8016 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
8017 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
8019 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
8020 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
8021 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
8022 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
8023 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
8024 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8026 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
8027 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
8028 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
8029 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
8030 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
8033 o Major features (circuit building, security):
8034 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
8035 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
8036 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
8038 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
8039 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
8041 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
8042 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
8043 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
8044 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
8045 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
8046 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
8047 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
8048 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
8049 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
8050 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
8051 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
8053 o Major features (resource management):
8054 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
8055 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
8056 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
8057 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
8058 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
8059 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
8061 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
8062 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
8063 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
8064 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
8066 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
8067 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
8068 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
8069 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8071 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8072 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
8073 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
8074 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
8075 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
8076 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
8078 o Minor features (security, TLS):
8079 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
8080 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
8081 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
8082 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
8084 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
8085 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
8086 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
8087 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
8089 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
8090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8093 o Minor feature (port flags):
8094 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
8095 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
8096 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
8097 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
8098 18693; patch by "teor".
8100 o Minor features (directory authority):
8101 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
8102 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
8103 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
8105 o Minor features (testing):
8106 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
8107 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
8108 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
8109 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
8111 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
8112 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
8113 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
8114 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
8115 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
8116 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
8117 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
8118 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
8119 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
8121 o Minor features (Tor2web):
8122 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
8123 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
8124 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
8126 o Minor features (unit tests):
8127 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
8128 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
8129 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
8130 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
8131 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
8132 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
8133 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
8134 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
8136 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
8137 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
8138 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
8139 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
8140 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
8141 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
8142 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
8143 assertion as a test failure.
8145 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
8146 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
8147 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
8148 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
8149 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
8150 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
8152 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
8153 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
8154 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
8155 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
8156 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
8157 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
8158 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
8159 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
8160 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
8161 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
8162 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8163 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
8164 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
8165 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
8166 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
8167 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8169 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8170 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
8171 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
8172 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
8173 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8174 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
8175 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
8178 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8179 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
8180 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
8181 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
8182 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
8183 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
8184 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
8187 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8188 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
8189 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
8190 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
8192 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
8193 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
8194 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
8196 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8197 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
8198 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
8199 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
8200 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
8201 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8203 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8204 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
8205 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
8206 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
8208 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
8209 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
8210 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
8212 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
8213 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
8214 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
8215 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
8216 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
8217 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
8219 o Minor bugfixes (options):
8220 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
8221 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
8223 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
8224 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
8225 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8228 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
8229 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
8230 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
8231 19678. Patch by teor.
8233 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8234 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
8235 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
8236 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
8237 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
8238 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
8240 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
8241 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
8245 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
8246 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
8247 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
8248 who select public relays as their bridges.
8250 o Major bugfixes (crash):
8251 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
8252 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
8253 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
8254 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
8255 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8257 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
8258 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
8259 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
8260 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
8261 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
8264 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
8265 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
8266 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
8267 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
8269 o Minor features (geoip):
8270 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8274 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
8275 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
8276 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
8277 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
8278 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
8279 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
8281 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
8282 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8283 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8285 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
8286 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
8287 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
8288 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
8289 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
8290 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8292 o Major features (user interface):
8293 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
8294 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
8295 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
8297 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
8298 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
8299 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
8300 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8302 o Minor features (config):
8303 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
8304 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
8306 o Minor features (geoip):
8307 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8310 o Minor features (user interface):
8311 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
8312 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
8315 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
8316 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
8317 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
8319 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8320 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
8321 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
8323 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
8324 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
8325 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
8326 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
8329 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
8330 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
8333 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
8334 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
8335 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
8336 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
8338 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8339 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
8340 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8342 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8343 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
8344 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8346 o Deprecated features:
8347 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
8348 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
8349 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
8350 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
8351 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
8352 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
8353 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
8354 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
8355 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
8356 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
8357 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
8358 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
8359 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
8360 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
8361 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
8362 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
8363 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
8364 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
8365 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
8366 and TransListenAddress.
8369 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
8370 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
8373 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
8374 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
8377 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
8378 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
8379 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
8380 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
8381 encouraged to upgrade.
8383 o Directory authority changes:
8384 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8385 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
8387 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
8388 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
8389 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
8390 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
8391 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
8392 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8394 o Minor features (geoip):
8395 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8398 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8399 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
8400 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
8403 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8404 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
8405 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
8406 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
8409 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
8410 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
8411 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
8412 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
8413 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
8414 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
8415 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
8416 security, correctness, and performance.
8418 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
8420 o New system requirements:
8421 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
8422 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
8423 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
8424 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
8425 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
8426 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
8427 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
8428 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
8430 o Major features (build, hardening):
8431 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
8432 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
8433 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
8434 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
8435 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
8436 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
8437 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
8438 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
8439 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
8441 o Major features (compilation):
8442 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
8443 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
8444 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
8445 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
8447 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
8448 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
8449 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
8451 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
8452 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
8453 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
8454 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
8455 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
8456 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
8457 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
8458 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
8460 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
8461 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
8462 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
8463 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
8464 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
8465 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
8466 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
8468 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
8469 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
8470 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
8471 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
8472 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
8473 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
8474 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
8476 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
8477 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
8478 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
8479 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
8480 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
8482 o Minor features (build, hardening):
8483 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
8484 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
8485 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
8486 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
8487 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
8488 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
8489 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
8490 Closes ticket 18895.
8492 o Minor features (code safety):
8493 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
8494 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
8497 o Minor features (controller):
8498 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
8499 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
8500 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
8501 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
8502 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
8503 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
8504 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
8505 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
8507 o Minor features (directory authority):
8508 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
8509 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
8510 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
8511 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
8512 Implements ticket 18624.
8513 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
8514 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
8515 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
8518 o Minor features (hidden service):
8519 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
8520 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
8521 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
8524 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
8525 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
8526 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
8527 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
8528 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
8529 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
8530 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
8531 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
8532 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
8533 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
8534 Closes ticket 18365.
8536 o Minor features (logging):
8537 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
8538 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
8539 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
8540 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
8541 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
8542 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
8543 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
8544 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
8545 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
8546 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
8548 o Minor features (performance):
8549 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
8550 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
8551 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
8552 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
8553 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
8554 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
8555 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
8557 o Minor features (relay, usability):
8558 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
8559 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
8560 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
8561 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
8564 o Minor features (testing):
8565 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
8566 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8567 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
8568 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
8569 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
8570 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
8571 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
8572 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
8575 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8576 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
8577 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
8578 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
8579 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8581 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8582 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
8583 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
8584 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
8585 patch from "cypherpunks".
8587 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
8588 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
8589 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8591 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8592 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
8593 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
8594 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8596 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8597 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
8598 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
8599 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8600 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
8601 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
8602 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
8603 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8605 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8606 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
8607 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8608 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
8609 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
8610 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
8611 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
8613 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
8614 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
8615 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
8618 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
8619 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
8620 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
8622 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
8623 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
8624 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
8627 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
8628 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
8629 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
8630 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
8633 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8634 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
8635 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
8637 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8638 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
8639 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
8642 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8643 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
8644 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
8645 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
8646 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
8647 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
8648 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
8649 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
8650 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
8653 o Minor bugfixes (time):
8654 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
8655 bugfix on all released tor versions.
8656 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
8657 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
8658 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
8659 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8661 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
8662 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
8663 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
8664 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
8665 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
8667 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
8668 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8670 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8671 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
8673 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
8674 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
8675 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
8676 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
8679 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
8680 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
8683 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
8684 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
8685 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
8686 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
8687 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
8688 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
8689 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
8692 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
8693 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
8694 command-line options to enable them.
8695 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
8696 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
8699 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
8701 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
8703 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
8704 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
8705 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
8706 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
8707 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
8708 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8710 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
8712 o Minor features (geoip):
8713 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8716 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8717 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
8718 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8720 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
8721 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
8722 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8723 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
8725 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8726 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
8727 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
8728 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
8729 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8730 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
8731 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
8732 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8735 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
8736 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
8737 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
8738 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
8739 against previous versions.
8741 o Directory authority changes:
8742 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
8744 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
8745 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
8746 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
8747 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
8749 o Minor features (build):
8750 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
8751 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
8752 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
8753 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8754 Patch from intrigeri.
8756 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
8757 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
8758 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
8761 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
8762 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
8763 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
8764 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
8765 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
8768 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8769 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
8770 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
8771 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
8772 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
8773 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
8774 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
8776 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
8777 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
8778 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
8779 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
8781 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
8782 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
8783 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
8784 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
8785 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
8786 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8788 o Fallback directory list:
8789 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
8790 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
8791 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
8792 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
8793 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
8794 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
8795 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
8796 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
8797 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
8800 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
8801 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
8802 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
8803 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
8806 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
8807 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
8808 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
8809 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8811 o Minor features (build):
8812 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
8813 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
8815 o Minor features (geoip):
8816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8819 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8820 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
8821 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8823 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
8824 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
8825 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
8826 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
8830 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
8831 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
8832 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
8833 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
8834 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
8837 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
8838 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
8839 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
8840 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
8841 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8843 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
8844 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
8845 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
8846 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
8847 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
8848 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
8850 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
8851 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
8852 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
8853 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8855 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
8856 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
8857 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
8858 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
8859 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
8860 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
8861 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
8863 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
8864 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
8866 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
8867 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
8868 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
8870 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8871 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
8872 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
8873 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
8874 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
8875 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8878 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
8879 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
8880 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
8883 o Major bugfixes (key management):
8884 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
8885 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
8886 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
8887 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
8888 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
8889 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
8892 o Major bugfixes (testing):
8893 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
8894 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
8895 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
8896 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8898 o Minor features (clients):
8899 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
8900 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
8901 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
8903 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8904 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
8905 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
8906 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
8907 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
8908 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
8909 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
8910 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
8911 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
8912 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
8914 o Minor features (geoip):
8915 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
8918 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
8919 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
8920 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
8923 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8924 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
8925 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
8927 o Minor bugfixes (build):
8928 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
8929 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
8931 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
8932 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
8934 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
8935 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
8938 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8939 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
8940 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
8941 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
8942 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8943 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
8944 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
8945 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
8947 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
8948 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
8949 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
8950 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
8951 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8953 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
8954 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
8955 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
8956 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8957 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
8958 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
8961 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
8962 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
8963 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
8964 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
8965 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
8966 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8968 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8969 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
8970 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
8971 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8972 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
8973 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8974 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
8975 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8977 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8978 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
8979 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
8980 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
8982 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
8983 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
8984 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
8985 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
8986 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
8987 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
8990 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8991 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
8992 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
8994 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
8995 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
8996 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8998 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
8999 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
9000 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
9002 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9003 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
9004 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
9005 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
9006 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
9007 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
9008 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9010 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
9011 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
9012 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
9013 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9016 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
9017 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
9018 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
9019 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
9022 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
9023 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
9024 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
9025 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
9026 directory support should also be much improved.
9028 o New system requirements:
9029 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
9030 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
9031 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
9032 longer runs with, these versions.
9033 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
9034 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
9035 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
9037 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
9038 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
9039 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
9040 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
9041 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
9043 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
9044 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9045 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9046 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9047 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9049 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
9050 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
9051 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
9052 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
9053 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
9055 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9056 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
9057 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
9058 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9060 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
9061 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
9062 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9063 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
9064 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9066 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
9067 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
9068 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
9069 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
9070 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
9071 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9074 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
9075 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9076 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9078 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
9079 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
9080 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
9081 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
9084 o Major bugfixes (voting):
9085 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
9086 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
9087 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
9088 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
9090 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
9091 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
9092 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
9093 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9094 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
9095 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
9096 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
9097 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
9098 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
9099 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9101 o Minor features (security, win32):
9102 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
9103 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
9106 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
9107 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9108 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9109 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9111 o Minor features (build):
9112 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
9113 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
9116 o Minor features (code hardening):
9117 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
9118 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
9119 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
9122 o Minor features (crypto):
9123 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
9124 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
9127 o Minor features (geoip):
9128 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9131 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
9132 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
9133 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
9134 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
9135 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
9137 o Minor features (IPv6):
9138 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
9139 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
9140 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
9141 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
9142 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
9143 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
9144 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
9146 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9147 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
9148 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
9149 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
9152 o Minor features (robustness):
9153 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
9154 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
9155 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
9157 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
9158 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
9159 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
9160 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
9161 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
9162 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
9163 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
9166 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
9167 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
9168 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
9169 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
9170 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
9172 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
9173 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
9174 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
9175 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
9177 o Minor bugfixes (build):
9178 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
9179 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
9181 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
9182 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
9183 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9184 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
9185 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
9186 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
9188 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
9189 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
9190 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
9191 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
9192 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9194 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9195 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
9196 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
9197 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
9200 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9201 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
9202 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9204 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
9205 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
9206 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
9207 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9209 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9210 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
9211 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
9212 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
9213 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
9214 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9216 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9217 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
9218 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
9219 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
9221 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
9222 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
9223 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
9224 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
9225 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
9227 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
9228 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
9229 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
9230 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
9231 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
9232 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
9233 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
9234 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
9235 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
9238 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
9239 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
9240 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
9241 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9243 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
9244 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
9245 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
9247 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9248 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
9249 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
9250 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9251 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
9252 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
9253 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9254 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
9255 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9257 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9258 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
9259 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
9260 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9261 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
9262 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
9263 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
9264 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
9265 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
9266 Christian, patch by teor.
9268 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
9269 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
9270 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
9271 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
9273 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
9274 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
9275 patch by "cypherpunks".
9276 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
9278 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
9279 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9281 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
9282 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
9283 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
9284 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
9286 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
9287 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
9288 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
9291 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9292 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
9293 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
9294 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
9295 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
9296 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9298 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
9299 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
9300 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
9301 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
9303 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
9304 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
9305 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
9306 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
9308 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9309 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
9310 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
9311 17744. Patch from zerosion.
9312 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
9313 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
9314 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
9315 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
9316 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
9319 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
9320 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
9321 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
9324 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
9325 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
9326 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
9329 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
9331 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
9332 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
9335 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
9336 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
9337 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
9338 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
9339 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
9341 o Major features (security, Linux):
9342 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
9343 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
9344 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
9345 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
9346 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
9348 o Major features (directory system):
9349 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
9350 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
9351 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
9352 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
9353 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
9354 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
9355 "mikeperry" and "teor".
9356 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
9357 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
9358 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
9359 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
9360 15775. Patch by "teor".
9361 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
9362 "gsathya", and "karsten".
9363 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
9364 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
9365 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
9366 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
9367 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
9370 o Major key updates:
9371 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9372 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9375 o Minor features (security, clock):
9376 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
9377 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
9378 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
9379 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
9381 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
9382 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
9383 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
9384 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
9385 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
9386 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9388 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
9389 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
9390 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
9391 Implements ticket 17026.
9392 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
9393 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
9394 Implements feature 17986.
9395 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
9396 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
9397 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
9398 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9399 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9400 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9403 o Minor features (security, RNG):
9404 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
9405 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
9406 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
9407 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
9408 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
9409 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
9410 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
9411 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
9412 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
9413 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
9416 o Minor features (accounting):
9417 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
9418 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
9419 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
9420 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
9422 o Minor features (build):
9423 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
9424 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
9425 patch from "cypherpunks."
9426 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
9427 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
9428 17549, 17921, and 17984.
9430 o Minor features (controller):
9431 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
9432 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
9433 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
9434 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
9435 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
9436 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
9437 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
9438 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
9441 o Minor features (crypto):
9442 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
9444 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
9445 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
9446 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
9447 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
9448 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
9449 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
9450 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
9451 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
9453 o Minor features (directory downloads):
9454 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
9455 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
9456 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
9457 17864; patch by "teor".
9458 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
9459 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
9460 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
9462 o Minor features (geoip):
9463 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
9466 o Minor features (IPv6):
9467 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
9468 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
9469 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
9470 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
9471 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
9472 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
9473 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
9474 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
9475 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
9476 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
9477 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
9479 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
9480 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9481 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
9482 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
9484 o Minor features (logging):
9485 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
9486 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
9487 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
9488 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
9491 o Minor features (portability):
9492 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
9493 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
9495 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
9496 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
9497 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
9498 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
9499 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
9501 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
9502 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
9503 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
9504 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
9505 Resolves ticket 17951.
9507 o Minor features (replay cache):
9508 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
9509 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
9511 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
9512 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
9513 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
9514 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
9515 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
9516 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
9517 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
9518 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
9519 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
9520 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
9521 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
9522 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
9523 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
9524 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
9526 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
9527 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
9528 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
9531 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9532 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
9533 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
9534 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
9535 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
9536 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
9538 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
9541 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9542 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
9543 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
9544 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9545 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
9546 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
9547 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9548 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
9550 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
9551 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
9552 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
9553 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
9554 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
9555 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
9556 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9557 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
9559 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
9560 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
9562 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
9563 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
9564 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9566 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9567 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
9568 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
9569 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9571 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9572 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
9573 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9575 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9576 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
9577 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9579 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9580 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
9581 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
9582 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
9583 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
9585 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
9586 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9588 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9589 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
9590 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
9593 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
9594 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
9595 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
9596 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
9597 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
9598 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
9600 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
9601 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
9602 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
9603 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
9604 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
9606 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
9607 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
9608 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
9611 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
9612 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
9613 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
9614 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9615 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
9616 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
9617 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
9618 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
9621 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9622 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
9623 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
9624 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
9625 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
9626 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9627 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
9628 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
9629 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
9630 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
9632 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
9633 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
9635 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9636 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
9637 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
9638 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
9639 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
9640 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
9641 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
9642 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
9643 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
9644 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
9646 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
9647 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
9648 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
9649 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
9651 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
9652 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
9653 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
9654 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
9655 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
9657 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
9658 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
9661 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
9662 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
9663 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
9664 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
9665 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
9666 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
9667 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
9671 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
9672 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
9673 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
9674 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
9675 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
9678 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
9679 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
9680 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
9681 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
9682 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
9683 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
9684 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
9685 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
9686 portion of ticket 16831.
9687 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
9688 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
9689 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
9691 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
9692 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
9695 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
9696 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
9697 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
9699 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
9700 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9701 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9702 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9703 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9704 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9707 o Minor features (geoip):
9708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9711 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9712 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
9713 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
9714 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
9715 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9716 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9718 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9719 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
9720 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
9721 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
9722 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
9723 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
9724 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
9725 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9726 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
9727 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9730 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
9731 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
9732 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
9733 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
9734 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
9735 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
9736 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
9737 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
9738 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
9739 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
9740 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
9741 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
9742 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
9743 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
9744 that would make him proud.
9746 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
9748 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
9749 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
9750 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
9751 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
9752 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
9753 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
9754 of Tor invoke which others.
9756 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
9759 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
9760 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
9761 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
9762 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
9763 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
9764 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
9765 release will the the official stable release.
9767 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
9768 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9769 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9770 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9771 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9774 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
9775 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
9776 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9778 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
9779 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
9780 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9781 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
9782 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
9783 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
9784 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
9786 o Minor features (geoIP):
9787 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9791 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
9792 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
9793 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
9794 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9795 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
9796 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
9798 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9799 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
9800 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
9803 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
9804 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
9805 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
9806 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
9808 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9809 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
9810 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
9811 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
9812 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
9813 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
9814 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
9815 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
9816 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
9817 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
9818 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
9822 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
9823 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
9827 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
9828 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
9829 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
9830 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
9831 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
9833 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
9834 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
9835 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
9836 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
9838 o Major features (security, hidden services):
9839 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
9840 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
9841 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
9842 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
9843 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
9844 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
9845 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
9847 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
9848 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
9849 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
9850 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
9851 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
9852 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
9855 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
9856 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
9857 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
9858 available. Implements ticket 16535.
9859 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
9860 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
9863 o Major features (performance testing):
9864 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
9865 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
9866 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
9868 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
9869 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
9870 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
9871 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
9873 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
9874 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
9875 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
9876 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
9877 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
9878 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
9880 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
9881 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
9883 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
9884 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
9885 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
9886 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
9887 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
9889 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
9890 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
9891 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
9892 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
9893 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
9894 own. Implements feature 15482.
9895 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
9896 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
9898 o Minor features (compilation):
9899 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
9900 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
9901 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
9902 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
9903 which started requiring ECC.
9905 o Minor features (geoip):
9906 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
9909 o Minor features (hidden services):
9910 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
9911 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
9912 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
9913 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
9914 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
9915 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
9916 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
9917 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
9919 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
9920 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
9921 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
9924 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
9925 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
9926 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
9927 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
9929 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
9930 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
9931 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
9932 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
9933 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
9935 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
9936 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
9937 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
9938 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
9939 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9940 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
9941 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
9942 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
9943 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
9944 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
9945 Related to ticket 16069.
9946 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
9947 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
9948 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
9949 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
9950 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
9951 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9953 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
9954 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
9955 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9956 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
9957 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
9959 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
9960 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
9961 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9963 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9964 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
9965 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
9966 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9968 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9969 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
9970 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
9971 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
9972 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9974 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9975 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
9976 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
9977 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
9978 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
9979 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
9980 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
9981 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
9982 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
9983 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
9984 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
9987 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
9988 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
9989 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9991 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9992 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
9993 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9994 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
9995 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9997 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
9998 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
9999 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
10000 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
10002 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10003 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
10004 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
10006 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
10007 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10008 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
10009 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
10010 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
10011 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10012 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
10013 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10015 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10016 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
10017 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
10018 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
10019 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
10021 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
10022 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
10025 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10026 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
10027 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
10028 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
10029 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
10030 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
10031 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
10032 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
10033 function. Closes ticket 16763.
10034 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
10035 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
10036 suite of other microdesc functions.
10037 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
10038 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
10039 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
10040 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
10041 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
10042 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
10043 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
10044 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
10045 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
10046 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
10048 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
10049 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
10051 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
10054 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
10055 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
10056 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
10057 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
10061 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
10062 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
10063 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
10064 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
10065 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
10066 Closes ticket 13338.
10067 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
10068 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
10069 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
10070 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
10071 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
10072 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
10075 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
10076 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
10077 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
10078 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
10079 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
10080 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
10081 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
10083 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
10084 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
10085 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
10086 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
10087 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
10088 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
10089 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
10090 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
10091 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
10092 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
10093 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
10094 network before we begin.
10095 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
10096 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
10097 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
10098 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
10099 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
10100 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
10101 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
10102 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
10105 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
10106 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
10107 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
10108 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
10109 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
10110 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
10112 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
10113 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
10114 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
10116 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
10117 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
10118 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
10119 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
10120 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
10121 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
10122 Implements part of ticket 12498.
10123 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
10124 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
10125 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
10126 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
10127 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
10128 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
10129 part of ticket 12498.
10130 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
10131 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
10132 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
10133 key). Closes ticket 13642.
10135 o Major features (Hidden services):
10136 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
10137 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
10138 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
10139 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
10140 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
10142 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
10143 introduction points, which used to change the number of
10144 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
10145 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
10147 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
10148 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
10149 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
10150 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
10151 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
10152 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
10154 o Major features (performance):
10155 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
10156 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
10157 Implements ticket 16467.
10158 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
10159 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
10160 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
10161 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
10163 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
10164 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
10165 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
10166 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
10167 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
10168 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
10170 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
10171 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
10172 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
10173 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
10174 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
10175 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
10176 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
10177 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
10180 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10181 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
10182 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
10183 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
10184 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
10185 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
10186 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
10189 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
10190 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
10191 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
10192 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
10193 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
10194 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
10196 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
10197 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
10198 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
10199 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
10200 by "cypherpunks_backup".
10201 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
10202 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
10203 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
10206 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
10207 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
10208 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
10209 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
10210 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
10211 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
10212 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
10214 o Minor features (client):
10215 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
10216 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
10217 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
10219 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
10220 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
10221 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
10222 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10223 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
10224 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
10225 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
10228 o Minor features (control protocol):
10229 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
10230 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
10232 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10233 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
10234 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
10235 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
10236 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
10237 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
10239 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
10240 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10241 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10243 o Minor features (hidden services):
10244 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
10245 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
10246 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
10247 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
10250 o Minor features (portability):
10251 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
10252 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
10253 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
10255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
10256 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
10257 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
10258 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
10260 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10261 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
10262 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
10263 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10265 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
10266 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
10267 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
10268 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
10269 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
10270 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
10272 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10273 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
10274 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
10275 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10276 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
10277 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
10278 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10280 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10281 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
10282 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10284 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
10285 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
10286 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
10287 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
10289 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
10290 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
10291 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
10292 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
10294 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
10295 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
10298 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10299 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
10300 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
10301 from "cypherpunks".
10303 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
10304 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
10305 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10306 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
10307 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
10308 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
10310 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
10311 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
10312 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10314 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
10315 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
10316 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
10318 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
10319 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
10320 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10321 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
10322 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10323 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
10324 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
10325 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
10326 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10328 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10329 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
10330 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
10331 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
10332 haven't supported that in ages.
10333 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
10334 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
10335 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
10336 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
10339 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
10340 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
10341 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
10342 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
10343 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
10344 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
10346 o Removed features:
10347 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
10348 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
10349 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
10350 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
10351 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
10352 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
10353 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
10354 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
10355 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
10356 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
10357 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
10358 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
10359 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
10360 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
10361 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
10362 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
10363 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
10366 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
10367 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
10368 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
10369 Closes ticket 15817.
10370 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
10371 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
10373 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
10374 default as a part of "make check".
10375 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
10376 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
10377 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
10378 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
10382 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
10383 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
10384 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
10385 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
10386 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
10387 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
10389 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
10390 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
10391 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
10392 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
10393 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
10394 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
10395 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
10396 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
10399 o Major bugfixes (stability):
10400 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
10401 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
10402 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
10403 by "cypherpunks_backup".
10404 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
10405 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
10406 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
10409 o Minor features (geoip):
10410 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10411 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10413 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
10414 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
10415 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
10416 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
10417 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
10418 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
10420 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10421 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
10422 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
10423 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
10426 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
10427 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
10428 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
10429 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
10430 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
10432 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
10433 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
10434 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
10435 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
10436 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
10439 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
10440 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
10441 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
10442 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
10443 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
10444 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
10445 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
10447 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10448 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
10449 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
10450 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
10452 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10453 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
10454 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
10455 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
10456 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
10457 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
10460 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
10461 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
10462 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
10465 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
10466 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
10467 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
10468 authorities should upgrade.
10470 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10471 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
10472 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
10473 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
10476 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10477 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
10478 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
10481 o Minor features (geoip):
10482 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10483 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10487 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
10488 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
10489 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
10490 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
10491 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
10492 the hidden services subsystem.
10494 o New system requirements:
10495 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
10496 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
10499 o Major features (controller):
10500 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
10501 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
10503 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
10504 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
10505 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
10506 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
10507 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
10508 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
10509 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10511 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10512 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
10513 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
10514 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
10517 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
10518 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
10519 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
10520 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
10521 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
10523 o Minor features (command-line interface):
10524 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
10525 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10526 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
10527 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
10529 o Minor features (controller):
10530 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
10531 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
10532 present. Implements ticket 14840.
10533 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
10534 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
10535 Closes ticket 14845.
10536 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
10537 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
10538 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
10540 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
10541 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
10542 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
10543 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
10545 o Minor features (geoip):
10546 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10547 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10550 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
10551 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
10552 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
10553 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
10554 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
10555 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
10556 Closes ticket 15745.
10558 o Minor features (logging):
10559 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
10560 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
10563 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
10564 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
10565 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
10566 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
10568 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
10569 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
10570 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
10571 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
10572 Resolves ticket 15435.
10574 o Minor features (testing):
10575 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
10576 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
10577 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
10578 files. Closes ticket 15180.
10579 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
10580 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
10581 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
10582 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
10583 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
10584 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
10585 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
10586 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
10587 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
10588 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
10589 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
10590 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
10592 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10593 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
10594 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
10597 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
10598 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
10599 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
10601 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
10602 stderr, not stdout.
10604 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
10605 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
10606 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
10607 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
10608 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
10609 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
10610 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
10611 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10613 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10614 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
10615 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
10617 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
10618 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
10619 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
10622 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10623 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
10624 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
10626 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
10627 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10629 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
10630 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
10631 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
10632 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
10635 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
10636 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
10637 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
10638 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
10639 recent enough Clang.
10641 o Minor bugfixes (network):
10642 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
10643 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
10644 unsuitable for public communications.
10646 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10647 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
10648 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
10649 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
10650 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
10651 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
10653 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
10654 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
10655 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
10656 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
10657 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
10658 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
10659 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
10660 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
10662 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10663 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
10664 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
10666 - Set the severity correctly when testing
10667 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
10668 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
10669 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
10670 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
10672 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10673 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
10674 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
10676 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
10677 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
10678 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
10679 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
10680 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
10683 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
10684 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
10686 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
10687 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10688 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
10689 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
10690 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
10693 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
10694 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
10695 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
10696 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
10697 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
10698 Closes ticket 14922.
10700 o Removed features:
10701 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
10702 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
10703 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
10704 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
10705 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
10706 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
10707 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
10708 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
10709 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
10710 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
10711 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
10714 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
10715 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
10716 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
10717 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
10718 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
10720 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
10721 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
10723 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
10724 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
10725 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
10726 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
10727 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
10728 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
10729 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
10731 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
10732 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
10733 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
10734 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
10735 Resolves ticket 15515.
10738 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
10739 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
10740 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
10741 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
10742 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
10744 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
10745 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
10747 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
10748 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
10749 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
10750 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
10751 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
10752 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
10753 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
10755 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
10756 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
10757 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
10758 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
10759 Resolves ticket 15515.
10762 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
10763 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
10764 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
10765 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
10766 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
10768 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
10769 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
10771 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
10772 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
10773 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
10774 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
10775 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
10776 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
10777 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
10779 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
10780 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
10781 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
10782 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
10783 Resolves ticket 15515.
10784 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
10785 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
10786 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
10790 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
10791 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
10793 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
10794 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
10795 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
10796 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
10797 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
10798 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
10799 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
10800 bugs should be addressed.
10802 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10803 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
10804 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
10805 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
10807 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
10808 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
10809 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
10811 o Major bugfixes (client):
10812 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
10813 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
10816 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
10817 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
10818 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
10819 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
10820 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
10821 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10823 o Major bugfixes (portability):
10824 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
10825 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
10828 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10829 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
10830 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
10831 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
10832 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
10834 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10835 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
10836 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
10839 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
10840 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
10842 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
10843 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
10844 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
10846 o Directory authority changes:
10847 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
10848 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
10849 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
10850 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
10851 closes ticket 14487.
10853 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
10854 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
10855 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
10858 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
10859 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10860 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
10861 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10862 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
10863 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10864 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10865 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10867 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
10868 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10869 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10870 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10872 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10873 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
10874 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
10875 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
10877 o Minor features (controller):
10878 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
10879 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
10880 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
10882 o Minor features (geoip):
10883 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10884 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10887 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
10888 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
10889 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
10890 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
10891 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
10892 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10895 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
10896 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
10897 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
10899 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10900 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
10901 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
10902 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
10903 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
10904 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
10905 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
10906 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10908 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
10909 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
10910 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10912 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
10913 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
10914 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
10915 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
10916 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
10920 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
10921 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
10922 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
10925 o Directory authority changes:
10926 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
10927 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
10928 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
10929 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
10930 closes ticket 14487.
10932 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
10933 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
10934 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
10935 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
10937 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
10938 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10939 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
10940 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10941 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
10942 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10943 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10944 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10946 o Minor features (geoip):
10947 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10948 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10951 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
10952 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
10953 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
10954 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
10955 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
10957 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
10958 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
10959 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
10962 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
10963 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
10964 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
10965 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
10966 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10967 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
10968 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
10969 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10971 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
10972 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
10973 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
10976 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10977 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
10978 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
10980 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
10981 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10982 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
10983 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
10984 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
10986 o Minor features (controller):
10987 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
10988 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
10989 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
10991 o Minor features (geoip):
10992 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
10993 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
10996 o Minor features (logs):
10997 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
11000 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11001 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
11002 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
11003 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11004 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
11005 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
11006 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
11007 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
11008 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
11010 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11011 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
11013 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
11016 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11017 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
11018 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
11020 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
11021 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
11022 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
11023 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
11024 from "cypherpunks".
11025 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
11026 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
11029 o Directory authority IP change:
11030 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
11031 closes ticket 14487.
11034 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
11035 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
11036 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
11040 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
11041 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
11042 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
11043 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
11044 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
11045 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
11047 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
11048 the next version will be a release candidate.
11050 o Deprecated versions:
11051 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
11052 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
11054 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
11055 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
11056 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
11057 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
11058 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
11059 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
11061 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
11062 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
11063 Implements ticket 11485.
11065 o Major features (changed defaults):
11066 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
11067 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
11068 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
11069 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
11070 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
11071 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
11073 o Major features (directory system):
11074 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
11075 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
11076 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
11077 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
11078 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
11079 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
11080 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
11081 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
11082 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
11083 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
11084 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
11085 227. Closes ticket 10395.
11087 o Major features (guards):
11088 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
11089 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
11090 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
11091 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
11092 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
11094 o Major features (performance):
11095 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
11096 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
11097 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
11098 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
11099 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
11100 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
11101 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
11102 Implements ticket 9682.
11104 o Major features (relay):
11105 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
11106 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
11107 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
11109 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
11110 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
11111 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
11112 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
11114 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
11115 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
11116 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
11117 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
11118 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
11119 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
11120 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
11122 o Minor features (build):
11123 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
11124 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
11125 Resolves ticket 13037.
11127 o Minor features (controller):
11128 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
11129 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
11131 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
11132 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
11133 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
11134 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
11135 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
11136 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
11138 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
11139 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
11140 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
11141 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
11142 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
11143 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
11144 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
11145 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
11146 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
11147 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
11149 o Minor features (geoip):
11150 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
11151 GeoLite2 Country database.
11153 o Minor features (guard nodes):
11154 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
11155 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
11156 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
11158 o Minor features (hidden service):
11159 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
11160 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
11161 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
11162 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
11163 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
11164 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
11165 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
11166 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
11168 o Minor features (interface):
11169 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
11170 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
11171 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
11173 o Minor features (logging):
11174 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
11175 Resolves ticket 6852.
11176 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
11177 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
11178 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
11180 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
11181 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
11183 o Minor features (stability):
11184 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
11185 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
11188 o Minor features (systemd):
11189 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
11190 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
11192 o Minor features (testing networks):
11193 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
11194 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
11195 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
11196 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
11197 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
11198 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
11200 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
11201 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
11202 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
11203 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
11204 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
11206 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
11207 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
11208 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
11209 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
11210 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
11212 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
11213 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
11214 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
11215 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
11216 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
11217 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
11218 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
11219 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11221 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
11222 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
11223 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
11224 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11225 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
11226 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11227 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
11228 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
11230 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
11231 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
11232 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
11235 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
11236 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
11237 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
11238 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
11239 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
11241 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
11242 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
11243 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
11244 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
11245 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11247 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11248 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
11249 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
11250 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
11251 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
11252 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
11253 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
11254 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
11255 Addresses ticket 14188.
11256 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
11257 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
11258 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
11259 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
11260 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
11261 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
11262 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
11263 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
11264 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11266 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11267 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
11268 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
11269 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11270 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
11271 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
11272 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
11273 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11275 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11276 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
11277 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
11278 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
11279 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
11280 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
11281 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
11282 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11283 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
11284 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11285 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
11286 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
11287 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11289 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
11290 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
11291 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
11292 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
11293 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
11294 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
11295 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
11296 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
11297 state, and key files.
11298 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
11299 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
11302 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11303 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
11304 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
11305 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
11306 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11307 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
11308 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
11309 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11310 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
11311 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
11312 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11314 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11315 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
11316 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11317 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
11319 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
11320 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11322 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
11323 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
11324 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
11325 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
11326 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
11327 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11329 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
11330 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
11331 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
11332 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11333 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
11334 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
11335 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11336 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
11337 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
11338 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11340 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11341 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
11342 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
11344 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
11345 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
11347 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
11348 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
11349 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
11350 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
11351 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11353 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
11354 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
11355 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
11356 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
11359 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
11360 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
11361 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
11364 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
11365 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
11366 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11368 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
11369 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
11370 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
11371 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
11372 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
11373 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
11374 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
11376 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
11377 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
11380 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
11381 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
11382 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
11384 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
11385 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
11386 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
11389 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11390 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
11391 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
11392 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
11393 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
11394 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
11395 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
11396 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
11397 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
11399 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
11400 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
11402 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
11406 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
11407 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
11408 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
11409 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
11410 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
11411 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
11413 o Downgraded warnings:
11414 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
11415 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
11417 o Removed features:
11418 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
11419 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
11420 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
11421 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
11422 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
11426 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
11427 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11428 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
11429 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
11430 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
11431 (existing behavior).
11432 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
11433 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
11434 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
11435 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
11436 Closes ticket 14107.
11437 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
11438 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
11439 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
11440 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
11442 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
11443 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
11444 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11447 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
11448 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
11449 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
11450 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
11451 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
11452 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
11454 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
11455 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
11456 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
11457 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
11459 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
11460 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
11461 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
11462 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
11463 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
11464 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
11466 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
11467 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
11468 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
11469 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
11470 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
11471 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
11472 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
11475 o Major features (hidden services):
11476 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
11477 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
11478 Closes ticket 13667.
11479 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
11480 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
11481 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
11482 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
11483 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
11484 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
11485 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
11486 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
11487 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
11488 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
11489 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
11491 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
11492 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
11493 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
11494 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
11495 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
11496 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
11499 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11500 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
11501 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
11502 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
11503 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
11504 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
11506 o Directory authority changes:
11507 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
11508 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
11509 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
11511 o Major removed features:
11512 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
11513 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
11514 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
11515 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
11517 o Minor features (client):
11518 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
11519 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
11520 Resolves ticket 13315.
11522 o Minor features (controller):
11523 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
11524 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
11527 o Minor features (geoip):
11528 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
11531 o Minor features (hidden services):
11532 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
11533 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
11534 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
11535 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
11536 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
11537 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
11539 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
11540 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
11541 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
11543 o Minor features (systemd):
11544 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
11545 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
11546 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
11547 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
11549 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
11550 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
11551 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
11552 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
11553 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
11556 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
11557 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
11558 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
11559 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
11560 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
11562 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
11563 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
11564 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
11567 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
11568 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
11569 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
11570 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
11571 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
11573 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
11574 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
11575 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11577 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11578 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
11579 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
11580 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
11581 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
11583 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
11584 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
11587 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11588 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
11589 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
11590 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
11591 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
11592 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
11593 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
11594 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
11595 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11596 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
11597 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
11598 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
11599 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
11600 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
11603 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11604 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
11605 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
11606 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
11607 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
11608 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
11610 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11611 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
11612 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
11613 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
11615 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
11616 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11618 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
11619 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
11620 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
11621 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
11624 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
11625 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
11626 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
11627 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
11628 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
11629 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
11631 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
11632 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
11633 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
11634 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
11635 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11636 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
11637 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
11638 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
11639 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
11640 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
11641 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
11642 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
11643 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
11644 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
11645 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
11646 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
11647 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
11648 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
11649 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
11650 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11651 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
11652 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
11653 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
11654 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
11655 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
11656 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
11657 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
11658 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11659 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
11660 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
11661 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
11662 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
11664 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
11665 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
11666 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
11667 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
11668 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
11670 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11671 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
11672 with a function instead.
11673 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
11674 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
11675 Closes ticket 13172.
11676 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
11677 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
11678 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
11679 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
11680 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
11681 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
11682 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
11683 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
11684 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
11685 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
11686 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
11687 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
11691 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
11692 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
11693 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
11694 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
11695 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
11696 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
11697 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
11698 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
11699 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
11700 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
11701 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
11702 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
11705 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
11706 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
11707 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
11708 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
11709 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
11710 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
11712 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
11716 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
11717 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
11718 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
11719 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
11720 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
11721 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
11722 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
11723 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
11724 of introducing infinite download loops.
11726 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
11727 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
11728 with 0.2.5.x for now.
11730 o New compiler and system requirements:
11731 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
11732 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
11733 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
11734 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
11736 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
11737 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
11738 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
11739 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
11740 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
11741 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
11742 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
11743 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
11744 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
11746 o Removed platform support:
11747 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
11748 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
11749 Closes ticket 11446.
11751 o Major features (bridges):
11752 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
11753 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
11754 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
11757 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
11758 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
11759 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
11760 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
11763 o Major features (directory system):
11764 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
11765 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
11766 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
11767 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
11769 o Major features (sample torrc):
11770 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
11771 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
11772 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
11773 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
11774 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
11775 generally useful "sample torrc".
11777 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
11778 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
11779 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11781 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
11782 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
11783 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
11784 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
11785 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11787 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
11788 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
11789 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
11790 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
11792 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
11793 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
11794 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
11795 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
11796 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
11797 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
11800 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
11801 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
11802 document. Implements feature 10427.
11804 o Minor features (client):
11805 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
11806 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
11807 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
11808 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
11810 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11811 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
11812 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
11813 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
11814 argument more than once.
11815 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
11816 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
11817 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
11818 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
11819 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
11820 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
11822 o Minor features (logging):
11823 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
11824 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
11825 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
11826 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
11827 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
11828 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
11829 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
11830 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
11831 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
11833 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
11834 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
11835 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
11836 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
11838 o Minor features (relay):
11839 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
11840 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
11841 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
11843 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
11844 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
11845 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
11846 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
11848 o Minor features (testing networks):
11849 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
11850 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
11851 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
11852 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
11853 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
11856 o Minor features (validation):
11857 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
11858 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
11859 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
11860 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
11861 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
11862 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
11863 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
11864 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
11866 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
11867 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
11868 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
11869 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11871 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
11872 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
11873 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
11874 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
11876 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11877 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
11878 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
11880 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
11881 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
11882 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
11884 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
11885 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11886 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
11887 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
11888 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
11889 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
11890 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
11892 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11893 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
11894 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
11895 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
11896 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
11897 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11898 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
11899 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
11900 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
11902 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
11903 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
11904 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
11905 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
11906 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
11908 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
11909 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
11910 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
11912 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11913 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
11914 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
11915 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
11916 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
11918 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
11919 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
11920 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
11921 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11922 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
11923 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
11924 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11925 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
11926 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
11927 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
11928 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
11931 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11932 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
11933 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
11934 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
11935 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11937 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11938 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
11939 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
11940 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
11941 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
11944 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
11945 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
11946 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11947 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
11948 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
11949 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
11951 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11952 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
11953 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
11954 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
11957 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
11958 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
11959 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
11961 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
11962 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
11963 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
11964 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
11967 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
11968 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
11969 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
11972 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
11973 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11974 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
11975 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
11976 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
11979 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11980 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
11981 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
11983 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
11984 Resolves ticket 12205.
11985 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
11986 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
11987 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
11988 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
11990 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
11991 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
11992 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
11994 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
11995 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
11997 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
11998 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
11999 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
12000 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
12001 or_options_t structure.
12004 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
12005 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
12006 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
12007 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
12010 o Removed features:
12011 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
12012 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
12013 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
12014 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
12015 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
12016 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
12017 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
12018 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
12019 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
12021 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
12022 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
12024 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
12025 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
12026 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
12027 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
12028 anymore, and ignore it.
12031 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
12032 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
12033 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
12034 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
12035 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
12036 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
12037 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
12038 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
12039 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
12040 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
12041 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
12042 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
12044 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
12045 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
12046 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
12048 o Distribution (systemd):
12049 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
12050 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
12051 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
12052 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
12053 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
12055 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
12056 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
12058 o Removed features (directory authorities):
12059 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
12060 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
12061 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
12062 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
12063 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
12064 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
12065 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
12066 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
12067 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
12069 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
12070 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
12071 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
12072 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
12075 o Testing (test-network.sh):
12076 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
12077 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
12079 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
12081 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
12082 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
12083 Partially implements ticket 13161.
12086 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
12087 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
12089 It adds several new security features, including improved
12090 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
12091 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
12092 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
12093 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
12094 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
12095 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
12096 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
12097 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
12098 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
12099 and features mentioned below.
12101 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
12102 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
12104 o Deprecated versions:
12105 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
12106 attention for some while.
12109 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
12110 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
12111 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
12112 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
12113 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
12114 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
12116 o Major security fixes:
12117 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
12118 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
12119 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
12121 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
12122 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
12123 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
12124 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
12127 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
12128 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
12129 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
12130 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12132 o Compilation fixes:
12133 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
12134 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
12135 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
12137 o Downgraded warnings:
12138 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
12139 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
12142 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
12143 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
12144 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
12145 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
12146 (which does affect Tor).
12148 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
12149 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
12150 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
12151 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
12153 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
12154 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
12155 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
12156 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
12159 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
12160 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
12161 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
12162 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
12163 the directory authorities.
12166 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
12167 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
12168 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
12169 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
12170 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
12171 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
12172 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
12173 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
12174 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
12175 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
12176 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
12177 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12179 o Directory authority changes:
12180 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
12183 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
12184 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
12185 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
12186 the directory authorities.
12189 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
12190 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
12191 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
12192 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
12193 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
12194 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
12195 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
12196 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
12197 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
12198 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
12199 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
12200 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12202 o Directory authority changes:
12203 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
12205 o Minor features (geoip):
12206 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12210 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
12211 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
12212 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
12213 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
12214 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
12216 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
12217 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
12218 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
12219 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
12220 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
12221 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
12222 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12223 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
12224 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
12225 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
12226 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
12227 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
12228 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
12229 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12230 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
12231 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
12233 o Major bugfixes (relay):
12234 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
12235 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12236 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
12237 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
12238 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
12239 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
12240 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12242 o Minor features (bridge):
12243 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
12244 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
12246 o Minor features (geoip):
12247 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12250 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12251 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
12252 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
12253 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
12254 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
12255 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
12256 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12257 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
12258 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
12259 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
12260 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
12261 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
12262 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
12263 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
12264 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
12266 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
12267 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
12268 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
12269 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
12270 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
12272 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12273 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
12274 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12275 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
12276 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
12279 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12280 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
12281 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12282 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
12283 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
12284 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
12285 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
12286 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12287 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
12288 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
12289 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
12292 o Distribution (systemd):
12293 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
12294 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
12295 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
12296 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
12297 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
12298 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
12299 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
12300 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
12301 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
12305 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
12306 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
12308 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
12312 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
12313 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
12314 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
12315 us closer to a release candidate.
12317 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
12318 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
12319 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
12320 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
12321 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
12323 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
12324 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
12325 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
12326 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
12327 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
12328 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
12329 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
12330 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
12331 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
12335 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
12336 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
12337 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
12338 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
12339 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
12340 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
12341 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
12342 to build circuits".
12345 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
12346 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
12347 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
12348 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
12349 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
12350 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
12351 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
12352 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12354 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
12356 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
12357 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
12358 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
12359 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
12360 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
12361 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
12362 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
12363 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
12364 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
12365 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12368 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
12369 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
12370 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
12371 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
12373 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
12374 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
12375 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
12378 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
12379 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
12380 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
12381 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
12384 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
12385 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
12386 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
12387 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
12388 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
12389 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
12390 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
12391 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
12392 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
12393 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
12396 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
12397 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
12398 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
12399 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
12400 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
12401 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
12402 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
12403 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
12407 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
12408 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
12409 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
12410 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
12411 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
12412 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
12413 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
12414 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
12415 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12416 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
12417 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
12418 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
12419 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
12422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12426 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
12427 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
12428 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
12429 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
12430 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
12431 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
12434 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
12435 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
12436 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
12437 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
12438 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
12439 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
12440 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
12441 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
12442 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
12443 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
12444 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
12445 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
12446 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12448 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
12449 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
12450 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
12451 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
12454 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
12455 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
12456 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
12458 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
12459 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
12460 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
12461 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
12462 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
12463 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
12464 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
12465 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
12466 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
12467 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
12468 router's identity is not forgeable.
12470 o Major bugfixes (relay):
12471 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
12472 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
12473 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
12474 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12475 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
12476 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
12477 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
12478 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
12479 bugfix on every version of Tor.
12481 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
12482 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
12483 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
12484 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
12487 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12488 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
12489 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
12490 help diagnose bug 7164.
12491 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
12492 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
12493 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
12494 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
12495 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
12497 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
12498 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
12499 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
12500 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
12501 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
12502 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
12503 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
12505 o Minor features (security, memory management):
12506 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
12507 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
12508 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
12509 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
12510 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
12511 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
12513 o Minor features (security):
12514 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
12515 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
12516 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
12517 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
12519 o Minor features (build):
12520 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
12521 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
12522 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
12524 o Minor features (other):
12525 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
12528 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
12529 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
12530 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
12531 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
12532 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12534 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12535 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
12536 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
12537 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
12538 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
12539 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
12540 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
12541 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
12542 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12543 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
12544 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
12545 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
12547 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12548 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
12549 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
12550 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
12551 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
12552 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
12553 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
12554 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
12555 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
12556 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
12557 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12558 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
12559 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
12560 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
12561 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
12562 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
12563 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
12564 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
12567 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
12568 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
12569 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
12570 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
12571 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
12572 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
12573 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
12575 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
12576 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
12577 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12578 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
12579 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12580 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
12581 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12582 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
12583 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
12585 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
12586 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
12588 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
12589 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
12591 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
12592 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
12593 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12594 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
12595 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
12596 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12597 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
12598 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
12599 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
12601 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
12602 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
12603 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
12604 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
12605 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
12606 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12607 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
12608 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
12609 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12610 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
12611 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
12612 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12613 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
12614 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
12615 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
12616 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
12617 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
12618 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12620 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
12621 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
12622 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
12623 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
12624 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
12625 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12626 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
12627 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
12628 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
12631 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12632 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
12633 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
12634 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
12635 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12637 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12638 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
12639 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
12640 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
12642 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
12643 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
12644 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
12645 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12646 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
12647 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
12648 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
12649 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
12651 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
12652 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
12653 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
12654 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
12657 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
12658 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
12659 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
12660 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
12661 versions. Found by "skruffy".
12662 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
12663 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
12664 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
12667 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
12668 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
12669 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
12670 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
12673 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
12674 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
12675 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
12676 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
12678 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
12679 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
12680 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
12682 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
12683 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
12684 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12686 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12687 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
12688 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12689 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
12690 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
12694 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
12695 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
12696 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
12697 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
12700 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
12701 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
12702 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
12703 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
12705 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
12706 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
12708 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
12709 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
12710 caches don't get confused.
12713 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
12714 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
12715 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
12716 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
12717 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
12720 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
12721 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
12722 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
12723 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
12724 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
12725 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
12729 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
12730 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
12731 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
12732 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
12733 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
12734 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
12735 of RAM, and several others.
12737 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12738 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
12739 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
12740 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
12741 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
12743 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
12744 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
12745 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
12746 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
12749 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12750 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
12751 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
12752 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
12753 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
12754 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
12755 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12756 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
12757 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
12758 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
12759 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
12760 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
12761 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
12762 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
12763 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
12764 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
12765 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
12766 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
12767 Resolves ticket 11438.
12769 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
12770 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
12771 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
12772 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
12773 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
12774 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12776 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12777 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
12778 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
12780 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12781 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
12782 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12784 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12785 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
12786 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
12787 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12789 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12790 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
12791 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
12793 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12794 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
12795 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12798 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
12799 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
12800 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
12801 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
12804 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12805 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
12806 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
12807 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
12809 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12810 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
12811 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
12812 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
12814 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
12815 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
12816 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
12820 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
12821 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
12822 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
12823 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
12824 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
12825 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
12826 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
12827 the Linux sandbox code.
12829 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
12830 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
12831 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
12833 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
12834 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
12836 o Major features (security):
12837 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
12838 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
12839 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
12840 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
12841 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
12842 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
12843 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
12844 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
12846 o Major features (relay performance):
12847 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
12848 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
12849 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
12850 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
12851 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
12852 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
12853 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
12854 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
12855 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
12856 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
12858 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
12859 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
12860 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
12861 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
12862 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
12863 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
12864 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
12866 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
12867 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
12869 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
12870 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
12871 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
12872 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
12873 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
12874 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
12875 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12876 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
12877 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
12878 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
12879 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
12880 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
12881 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
12882 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
12883 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
12884 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
12885 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
12886 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
12887 Resolves ticket 11438.
12889 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
12890 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
12891 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
12892 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12894 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
12895 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
12896 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
12897 10267; patch from "yurivict".
12898 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
12899 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
12900 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
12901 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
12902 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
12903 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
12905 o Minor features (security):
12906 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
12907 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
12908 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
12909 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
12912 o Minor features (log verbosity):
12913 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
12914 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
12915 Resolves ticket 5286.
12916 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
12917 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
12918 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
12919 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
12920 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
12921 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
12922 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
12923 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
12924 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
12926 o Minor features (relay):
12927 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
12928 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
12929 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
12931 o Minor features (controller):
12932 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
12933 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
12935 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
12936 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
12937 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
12939 o Minor features (bridge client):
12940 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
12941 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
12942 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
12944 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12945 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
12946 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
12947 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
12948 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
12949 still referenced by a live node_t object.
12951 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
12952 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
12953 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
12954 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
12956 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
12957 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
12958 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
12959 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
12962 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
12963 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
12964 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12966 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
12967 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
12968 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
12969 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12970 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
12971 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
12972 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12974 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
12975 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
12976 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
12977 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12978 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
12979 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
12980 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12981 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
12982 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
12983 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
12984 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12985 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
12986 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
12989 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
12990 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
12991 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
12992 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
12993 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
12995 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
12996 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
12997 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
13000 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13001 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
13002 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
13004 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
13005 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
13006 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13008 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
13009 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
13010 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
13011 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13013 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
13014 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
13015 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
13016 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
13017 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
13019 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
13020 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
13021 early. Fixes bug 10081.
13023 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
13024 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
13025 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13026 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
13027 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13028 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
13029 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
13030 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
13032 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
13033 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
13034 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
13035 should never have affected anyone in practice.
13037 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13038 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
13039 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13041 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
13042 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
13043 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
13044 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
13045 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
13046 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
13047 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
13048 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
13049 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
13050 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13051 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
13052 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
13053 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
13054 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
13056 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
13057 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
13058 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
13059 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
13060 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
13061 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
13062 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
13063 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
13067 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
13068 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
13069 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
13070 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13071 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
13072 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13073 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
13074 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
13076 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
13078 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13079 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
13080 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
13081 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
13082 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
13085 o Deprecated versions:
13086 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
13087 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
13088 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
13089 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
13092 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
13093 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
13094 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
13095 Patch from Dana Koch.
13098 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
13099 Resolves ticket 11070.
13102 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
13103 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
13104 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
13105 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
13106 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
13109 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
13110 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
13112 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
13113 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
13114 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
13115 streams attached to each circuit.
13117 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
13118 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
13119 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
13120 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
13121 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
13122 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
13123 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
13124 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
13125 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
13126 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
13127 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
13128 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
13129 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
13131 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
13132 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
13133 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
13135 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
13136 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
13137 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
13138 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
13139 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
13140 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
13141 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
13142 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
13143 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
13145 o Minor features (other):
13146 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
13147 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
13148 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
13149 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
13150 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
13151 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
13152 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
13153 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
13154 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
13157 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
13158 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
13159 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
13160 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
13161 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
13162 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
13163 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
13164 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
13166 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13167 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
13168 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
13169 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
13170 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13171 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
13172 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
13173 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
13175 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
13176 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
13177 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
13178 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
13179 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
13180 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13181 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
13182 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
13183 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13184 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
13185 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
13186 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13188 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
13189 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
13190 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
13191 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
13192 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
13193 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
13194 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
13195 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
13196 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
13197 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
13198 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
13199 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
13200 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
13201 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
13203 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
13204 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
13206 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
13207 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
13208 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
13209 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
13210 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
13211 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
13212 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13213 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
13214 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
13215 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
13216 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
13217 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13218 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
13219 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
13221 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13222 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
13223 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
13224 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
13227 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
13228 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
13229 the rest of bug 10841.
13232 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
13233 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
13234 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
13235 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
13236 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
13237 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
13238 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
13239 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
13240 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
13241 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
13242 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
13243 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
13244 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
13245 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
13246 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13248 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13249 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
13250 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
13252 o Test infrastructure:
13253 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
13254 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
13255 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
13256 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
13259 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
13260 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
13261 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
13262 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
13264 o Major features (client security):
13265 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
13266 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
13267 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
13268 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
13269 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
13270 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
13273 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
13274 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
13275 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
13276 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13278 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13279 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
13280 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
13281 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
13282 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
13285 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
13286 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
13288 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
13289 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
13290 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
13291 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
13292 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
13293 GeoLite2 Country database.
13296 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
13297 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
13298 bugfix on every released Tor.
13299 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
13300 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
13301 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
13302 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13303 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
13304 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
13305 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
13306 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
13307 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
13308 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13309 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
13310 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
13311 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13312 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
13313 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13315 o Documentation fixes:
13316 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
13317 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13320 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
13321 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
13322 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
13323 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
13324 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
13325 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
13326 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
13327 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
13329 o Major features (client security):
13330 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
13331 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
13332 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
13333 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
13334 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
13335 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
13336 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
13337 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
13338 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
13339 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
13340 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
13341 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
13343 o Major features (bridges):
13344 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
13345 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
13346 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
13347 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
13348 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
13349 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
13350 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
13351 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
13354 o Major features (other):
13355 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
13356 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
13357 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
13358 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
13359 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
13360 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
13361 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
13362 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
13363 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
13364 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
13365 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
13366 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
13369 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
13370 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
13371 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13372 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
13373 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
13374 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
13375 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13377 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
13378 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
13379 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
13380 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
13381 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
13382 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
13383 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
13384 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
13385 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
13387 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
13388 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13389 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
13390 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
13391 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
13392 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
13394 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
13395 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
13396 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
13397 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
13398 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
13399 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
13402 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
13403 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
13404 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
13405 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
13406 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
13407 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
13408 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
13410 o Minor features (security):
13411 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
13412 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
13415 o Minor features (config options and command line):
13416 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
13417 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
13418 Implements ticket 10060.
13419 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
13420 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
13421 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
13423 o Minor features (controller):
13424 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
13425 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
13426 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
13427 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
13428 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
13431 o Minor features (build):
13432 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
13433 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
13434 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
13435 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
13436 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
13437 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
13438 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
13440 o Minor features (testing):
13441 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
13442 the unit test scripts.
13443 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
13444 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
13445 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
13446 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
13448 o Minor features (log messages):
13449 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
13450 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
13451 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
13452 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
13453 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
13454 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
13455 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
13456 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
13457 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
13458 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13460 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
13461 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
13462 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
13463 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
13464 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
13465 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
13466 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
13467 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
13468 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
13469 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13471 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
13472 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
13473 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
13474 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
13477 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
13478 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
13479 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
13480 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
13481 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13483 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
13484 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
13485 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
13486 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
13487 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
13488 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
13489 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
13491 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
13492 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
13493 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
13494 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
13495 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
13496 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
13497 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13498 Reported by "mr-4".
13499 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
13500 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
13501 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
13502 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13504 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
13505 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
13506 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
13507 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
13508 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
13509 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
13510 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
13511 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
13512 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
13513 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
13514 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13516 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13517 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
13518 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
13519 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
13520 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
13521 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
13522 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
13523 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
13524 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
13525 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
13527 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
13528 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
13529 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
13530 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
13533 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13534 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
13535 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
13536 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
13537 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
13538 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
13540 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
13541 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13543 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13544 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
13545 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
13546 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13548 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
13549 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
13550 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
13551 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13552 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
13553 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
13554 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
13555 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
13556 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
13557 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
13558 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
13559 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
13560 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
13561 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
13563 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
13564 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
13565 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13566 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
13567 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
13568 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
13570 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
13571 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
13572 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13573 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
13574 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
13575 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
13576 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
13577 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
13578 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
13579 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13580 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
13581 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13583 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
13584 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
13585 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
13586 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
13587 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
13588 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13589 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
13590 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
13591 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
13592 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
13593 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
13594 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
13595 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
13596 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
13597 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
13598 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
13601 o Removed code and features:
13602 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
13603 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
13604 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
13605 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
13606 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
13607 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
13609 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
13610 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
13611 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
13612 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
13613 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
13614 part of a fix for bug 10841.
13616 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13617 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
13618 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
13619 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
13620 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
13621 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
13622 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
13623 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
13624 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
13625 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
13626 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
13629 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
13630 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
13631 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
13632 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
13633 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13635 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
13636 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
13637 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
13638 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
13639 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
13640 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
13641 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
13644 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
13645 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
13646 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
13649 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
13650 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
13651 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
13652 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
13653 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
13654 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
13655 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
13657 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
13658 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
13661 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
13662 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
13663 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
13664 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
13665 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
13666 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
13667 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
13668 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
13670 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
13671 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13672 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
13673 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
13674 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
13675 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
13678 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
13679 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13680 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
13681 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
13682 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
13685 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
13686 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
13687 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
13688 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
13689 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
13690 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
13691 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
13692 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
13694 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
13695 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
13696 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
13697 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
13698 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
13699 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
13700 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
13701 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
13702 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
13703 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
13704 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
13705 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
13706 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
13707 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
13708 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
13709 security, and privacy fixes.
13712 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
13713 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
13714 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
13715 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
13718 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
13719 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
13720 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
13721 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
13722 them to solve bug 6033.)
13725 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
13726 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
13727 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
13728 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
13729 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
13730 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13731 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
13732 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
13734 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
13735 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
13736 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
13737 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
13740 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
13741 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13742 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
13743 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
13744 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
13745 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
13746 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
13747 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
13748 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13749 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
13750 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
13752 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
13753 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
13754 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
13755 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
13756 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
13757 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
13758 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
13759 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
13760 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
13761 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
13762 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
13763 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
13764 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
13765 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
13766 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
13767 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
13770 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
13771 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
13772 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
13773 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
13774 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
13775 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
13776 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
13777 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
13778 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
13779 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
13780 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
13781 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
13782 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
13783 Implements part of proposal 222.
13785 o Minor features (other):
13786 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
13787 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
13788 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
13789 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
13790 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
13791 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
13792 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
13793 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
13794 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13796 o Documentation fixes:
13797 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
13798 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
13799 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
13800 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
13801 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
13802 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
13805 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
13806 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
13807 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
13808 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
13809 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
13810 release of the new branch.
13812 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
13813 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
13814 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
13816 o Major features (security):
13817 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
13818 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
13819 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
13820 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
13821 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
13822 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
13823 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
13824 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
13825 Google Summer of Code.
13826 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
13827 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
13828 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
13829 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
13830 them to solve bug 6033.)
13832 o Major features (other):
13833 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
13834 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
13835 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
13836 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
13837 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
13839 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
13840 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
13841 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
13842 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
13843 Implements ticket 8530.
13844 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
13845 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
13848 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
13849 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
13850 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
13851 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
13852 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
13853 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13854 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
13855 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
13856 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13857 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
13858 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
13859 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
13860 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
13863 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
13864 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
13865 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
13866 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
13867 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
13868 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
13869 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
13870 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
13871 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
13872 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
13876 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
13877 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
13878 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
13879 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
13880 invoking the other functions it calls.
13881 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
13882 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
13883 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
13884 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
13886 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
13887 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
13888 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
13889 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
13890 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
13891 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
13892 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
13893 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
13894 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
13895 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
13896 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
13897 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
13898 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
13899 Implements part of proposal 222.
13901 o Minor features (config options):
13902 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
13903 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
13904 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
13905 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
13906 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
13907 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
13908 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
13909 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
13910 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
13911 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
13912 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
13913 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
13914 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
13915 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
13916 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
13917 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
13918 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
13921 o Minor features (build):
13922 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
13923 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
13924 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
13925 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
13926 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
13929 o Minor features (other):
13930 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
13931 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
13932 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
13933 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
13934 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
13935 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
13936 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
13937 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
13938 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
13939 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
13940 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
13941 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
13942 Closes ticket 8109.
13943 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
13946 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
13947 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
13948 bugfix on every released Tor.
13949 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
13950 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
13951 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
13952 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
13953 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
13954 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
13956 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
13957 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
13958 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
13959 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13960 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
13961 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
13962 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
13963 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
13965 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
13966 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
13967 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
13968 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
13969 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
13971 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
13972 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13974 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
13975 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
13976 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
13978 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
13979 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
13980 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
13981 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
13982 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13984 o Minor code improvements:
13985 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
13986 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
13988 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
13989 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
13990 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
13991 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
13992 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
13994 o Removed features:
13995 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
13996 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
13997 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
13998 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
14000 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14001 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
14002 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
14003 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
14004 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
14005 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
14006 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
14007 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
14008 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
14009 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
14010 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
14011 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
14012 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
14013 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
14014 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
14015 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
14018 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
14019 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14020 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
14021 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
14022 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
14023 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
14024 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
14027 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
14028 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
14029 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
14030 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
14031 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
14032 Implements ticket 9574.
14035 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
14036 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
14037 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14038 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
14039 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
14040 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
14041 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
14042 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
14043 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
14044 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
14045 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
14046 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
14050 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
14051 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
14052 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
14053 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
14055 o Minor fixes (config options):
14056 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
14057 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
14058 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
14059 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
14060 message is logged at notice, not at info.
14061 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
14062 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
14063 or we just won't work.)
14066 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
14067 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
14068 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
14069 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14072 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
14073 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14074 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
14077 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
14078 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
14079 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14080 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
14081 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14082 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
14083 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
14085 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
14086 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14087 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
14088 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
14091 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
14092 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
14093 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14094 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
14095 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
14096 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
14097 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
14098 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
14099 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
14100 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
14101 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14102 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
14103 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
14106 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14109 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
14110 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
14111 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
14112 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
14115 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
14116 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
14117 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14120 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
14121 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
14122 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
14125 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
14126 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
14127 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14130 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
14131 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
14132 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
14133 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
14134 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
14135 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
14137 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
14138 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
14139 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
14140 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
14141 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
14142 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14144 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
14145 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
14146 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14149 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
14150 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
14151 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
14152 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
14153 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
14155 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
14156 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
14157 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
14158 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
14159 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
14160 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
14161 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
14163 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
14164 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
14165 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
14167 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
14168 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
14172 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
14173 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
14174 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
14176 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
14177 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
14178 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
14179 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
14180 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
14181 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
14183 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
14184 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
14185 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
14186 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
14187 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
14188 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
14189 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
14192 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
14193 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
14194 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
14195 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
14196 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
14197 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
14198 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14199 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
14200 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14201 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
14202 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
14203 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14204 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
14205 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
14207 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
14208 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
14209 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
14210 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
14213 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14214 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
14215 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
14216 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
14217 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
14218 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
14220 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
14221 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
14225 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
14226 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
14227 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
14228 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
14229 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
14230 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
14231 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14233 o Removed documentation:
14234 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
14235 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
14237 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14238 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
14239 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
14240 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
14243 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
14244 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
14245 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
14246 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
14247 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
14248 variety of other issues.
14251 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
14252 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
14253 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
14254 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
14255 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
14256 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14257 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
14258 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
14260 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
14261 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
14262 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
14264 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
14265 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
14266 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
14267 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
14268 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
14269 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
14270 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14272 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
14273 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
14274 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
14275 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
14276 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
14277 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
14278 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
14279 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14280 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
14281 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
14282 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
14283 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
14284 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14285 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
14286 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
14287 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
14288 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
14289 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
14290 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
14291 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
14292 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14294 o Major bugfixes (other):
14295 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
14296 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
14297 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
14298 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14301 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
14302 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
14303 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
14304 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
14306 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
14307 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
14309 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14311 o Minor features (build):
14312 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
14313 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
14315 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
14316 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
14318 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
14319 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
14320 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
14323 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14324 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
14325 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14326 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14327 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
14328 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
14329 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14330 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
14331 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
14332 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14333 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
14334 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
14335 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
14336 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
14339 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
14340 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
14341 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
14342 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
14343 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
14344 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
14345 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
14346 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
14347 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
14348 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
14349 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
14350 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
14351 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
14352 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14353 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14355 o Minor bugfixes (other):
14356 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
14357 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14358 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
14359 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
14360 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
14361 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
14362 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14363 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
14364 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
14365 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
14366 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
14367 Should help resolve bug 8235.
14368 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
14369 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
14370 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
14371 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14373 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
14374 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
14375 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
14376 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
14377 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
14378 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
14379 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
14380 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
14383 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14384 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
14385 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
14387 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
14388 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
14389 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
14390 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
14391 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
14392 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
14393 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14394 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
14395 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
14396 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
14397 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
14398 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
14399 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14400 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
14401 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
14404 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
14405 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
14406 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
14407 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
14408 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
14409 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
14410 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
14411 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
14413 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
14414 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
14415 or at least make it more diagnosable.
14416 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
14417 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
14418 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
14419 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14421 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
14422 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
14423 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
14424 the relaxed timeout log message.
14425 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
14426 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
14427 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
14429 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
14430 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
14431 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14432 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
14433 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14434 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
14435 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
14438 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
14439 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
14440 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
14441 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
14442 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14443 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
14444 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14445 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
14446 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
14447 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
14448 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
14449 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
14450 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14451 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
14452 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
14453 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
14454 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14456 o Documentation fixes:
14457 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
14458 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
14459 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
14460 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14461 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
14462 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
14463 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
14464 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
14467 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
14468 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
14472 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
14473 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
14474 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
14475 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
14477 o Major features (directory authorities):
14478 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
14479 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
14480 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
14481 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
14482 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
14483 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
14484 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
14485 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
14486 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
14487 Implements ticket 8151.
14489 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
14490 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
14491 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
14492 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
14493 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
14495 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14496 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
14497 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
14498 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
14499 whether authentication information is present, causing all
14500 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
14501 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
14503 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
14504 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
14505 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
14506 bugs 1913 and 1992.
14507 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
14508 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
14509 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
14510 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
14511 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
14512 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
14513 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
14514 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
14515 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
14516 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
14517 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
14518 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
14519 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
14520 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
14521 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
14522 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
14523 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
14524 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
14527 o Minor features (portability):
14528 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
14529 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14530 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
14531 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
14532 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
14533 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
14534 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
14535 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14537 o Minor features (other):
14538 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
14539 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
14540 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
14541 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
14542 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
14543 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
14544 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
14545 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
14547 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14549 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
14550 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
14551 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
14552 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
14553 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
14554 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
14555 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
14556 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
14557 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
14558 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
14560 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
14561 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
14562 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
14563 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14565 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14566 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
14567 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
14568 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
14569 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
14570 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
14571 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
14573 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
14574 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
14575 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
14576 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
14577 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
14579 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
14580 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
14581 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
14582 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
14584 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
14585 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
14586 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
14589 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
14590 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
14591 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
14592 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
14594 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
14595 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
14596 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
14597 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14599 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
14600 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
14601 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
14602 this is CID 718634.
14603 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
14604 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
14605 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
14606 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
14608 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
14609 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
14610 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14611 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
14612 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
14613 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
14614 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14616 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14617 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
14621 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
14622 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
14623 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
14624 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
14625 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
14628 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14629 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
14630 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
14631 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
14633 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
14634 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
14635 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
14639 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
14640 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
14641 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
14642 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
14643 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
14644 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
14645 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
14646 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
14647 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
14648 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
14649 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
14650 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
14651 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
14654 o Major features (relay):
14655 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
14656 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
14657 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
14658 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
14659 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
14660 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
14661 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
14663 o Major features (portability):
14664 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
14665 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
14666 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
14667 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
14668 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14671 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
14672 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
14673 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
14674 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
14675 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
14676 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
14678 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
14679 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
14680 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
14681 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
14682 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
14683 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
14684 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
14685 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
14687 o Minor features (path selection):
14688 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
14689 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
14690 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
14691 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
14692 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
14693 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
14694 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
14695 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
14696 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
14697 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
14698 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
14699 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
14700 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
14701 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
14702 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
14703 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
14704 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
14705 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
14706 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
14708 o Minor features (log messages):
14709 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
14710 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
14711 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
14712 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
14715 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
14716 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
14717 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14718 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
14719 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
14720 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
14721 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
14722 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
14723 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
14724 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14725 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
14726 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14728 o Build improvements:
14729 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
14730 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
14731 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
14732 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
14733 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
14734 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
14735 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
14736 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
14737 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
14738 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
14739 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
14740 than to perform erroneously.
14742 o Removed features:
14743 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
14744 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
14745 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
14747 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
14748 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
14749 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
14752 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14753 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
14755 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
14756 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
14760 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
14761 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
14762 work more robustly.
14765 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
14766 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
14767 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
14771 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
14772 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
14773 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
14774 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
14777 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
14778 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
14779 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
14780 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
14781 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
14782 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
14783 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
14784 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
14785 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
14786 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
14787 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
14788 closes ticket 7199.
14790 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
14791 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
14792 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
14793 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
14794 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
14795 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
14796 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
14797 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
14798 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
14799 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
14800 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
14802 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
14803 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
14804 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
14806 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
14807 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
14808 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
14810 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
14812 o Major features (better link encryption):
14813 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
14814 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
14815 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
14816 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
14817 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
14818 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
14821 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
14822 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
14823 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
14824 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
14825 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
14826 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
14827 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
14829 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
14830 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
14831 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
14832 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
14834 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
14837 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
14838 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
14839 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14842 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
14843 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
14844 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
14845 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
14846 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
14847 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
14848 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
14849 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
14850 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
14852 o Minor features (testing):
14853 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
14854 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
14855 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
14857 o Minor features (path bias detection):
14858 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
14859 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
14860 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
14861 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
14862 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
14863 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
14864 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
14865 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
14866 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
14867 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
14868 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
14869 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
14870 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
14871 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
14872 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
14873 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
14874 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
14875 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
14876 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
14877 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
14878 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
14879 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
14880 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
14881 detection capability loss.
14883 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
14884 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
14885 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
14886 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
14887 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14888 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
14889 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
14890 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
14893 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14894 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
14895 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
14896 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
14897 and the different handshakes it supports.
14898 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
14899 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
14900 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
14901 any encoding is overkill.
14904 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
14905 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
14906 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
14907 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
14908 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
14909 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
14910 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
14911 and fixes a variety of other issues.
14913 o Major features (client resilience):
14914 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
14915 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
14916 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
14917 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
14918 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
14919 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
14920 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
14921 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
14922 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
14923 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
14924 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
14925 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
14926 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
14927 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
14928 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
14930 o Major features (IPv6):
14931 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
14932 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
14933 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
14934 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
14935 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
14936 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
14937 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
14938 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
14940 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
14941 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
14943 o Major features (geoip database):
14944 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
14945 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
14946 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
14947 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
14948 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
14949 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
14950 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
14951 Country database, as modified above.
14953 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
14954 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
14955 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
14956 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
14957 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
14958 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
14959 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
14960 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
14961 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
14962 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
14963 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
14964 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
14965 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
14966 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
14967 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
14968 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
14969 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
14972 o Major bugfixes (other):
14973 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
14974 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
14975 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
14976 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
14977 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
14978 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
14979 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
14980 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
14982 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
14983 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14986 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
14987 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
14988 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
14989 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
14990 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
14991 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
14992 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
14993 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
14995 o Minor features (IPv6):
14996 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
14997 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
14998 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
14999 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
15000 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
15001 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
15002 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
15003 connect to the wrong addresses.
15004 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
15005 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
15006 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
15007 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
15011 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
15012 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
15013 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
15014 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15015 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
15016 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
15017 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
15019 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
15020 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
15021 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
15024 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
15025 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
15027 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15028 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
15029 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
15030 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
15031 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
15034 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
15035 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
15036 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
15037 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
15038 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
15039 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
15040 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
15041 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
15043 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
15044 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
15045 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
15046 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
15047 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
15048 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
15049 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
15050 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
15051 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
15052 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
15053 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
15056 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
15057 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
15058 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
15059 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
15060 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
15061 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
15062 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
15063 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
15064 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
15065 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
15068 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
15069 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
15073 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
15074 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
15075 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
15076 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
15079 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
15080 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
15082 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
15083 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
15084 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
15085 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
15086 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
15087 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
15088 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
15089 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
15090 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
15091 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
15094 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
15096 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
15097 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
15098 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
15099 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
15100 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
15103 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
15104 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
15105 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15106 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
15107 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
15109 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
15110 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
15111 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
15112 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
15113 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
15114 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
15115 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
15117 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
15118 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15119 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
15120 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
15121 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
15122 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15123 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
15124 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15126 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15127 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
15128 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
15129 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
15130 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
15131 present the same extensions.)
15134 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
15135 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
15136 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
15137 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
15138 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
15140 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
15141 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
15142 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
15143 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
15145 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
15146 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
15147 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
15148 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15150 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
15151 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
15152 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
15153 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
15154 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
15155 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
15156 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
15157 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
15158 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15160 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
15161 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
15162 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
15163 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
15164 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15167 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
15168 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
15169 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
15171 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15172 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
15174 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
15175 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
15179 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
15180 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
15181 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
15182 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
15185 o Major bugfixes (security):
15186 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
15187 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
15188 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
15190 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
15191 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
15192 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
15193 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15196 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
15197 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
15198 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
15199 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
15200 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
15201 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
15202 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
15203 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15206 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
15207 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
15208 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
15209 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15212 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
15213 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
15214 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
15215 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
15216 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
15217 scheduling algorithms.
15219 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
15220 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
15221 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
15223 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
15224 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
15225 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
15226 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
15227 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
15228 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
15229 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
15230 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
15231 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
15232 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
15233 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
15235 o Internal abstraction features:
15236 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
15237 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
15238 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
15239 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
15240 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
15241 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
15242 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
15243 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
15244 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
15245 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
15246 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
15247 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
15248 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
15249 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
15250 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
15251 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
15252 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
15254 o Required libraries:
15255 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
15256 strongly recommended.
15259 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
15260 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
15261 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
15262 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
15263 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
15264 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
15265 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
15266 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
15267 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
15269 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
15270 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
15271 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
15272 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
15273 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
15274 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
15275 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
15276 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15277 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
15278 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
15279 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
15280 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
15281 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
15282 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
15283 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
15286 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
15287 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
15288 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
15289 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
15290 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
15291 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
15292 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
15293 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
15294 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
15295 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
15296 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
15297 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
15298 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
15299 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
15300 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15301 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
15302 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
15303 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
15304 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
15306 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
15307 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
15308 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
15309 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
15310 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
15311 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
15312 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
15315 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
15316 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
15317 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
15318 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
15320 o New directory authorities:
15321 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
15322 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
15324 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
15325 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
15326 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
15327 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
15328 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
15329 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
15330 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
15331 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
15332 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
15333 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
15334 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
15337 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
15338 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
15339 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
15341 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
15342 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
15343 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
15344 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15345 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
15346 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
15347 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15348 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
15349 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
15351 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15352 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
15353 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
15354 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
15355 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
15356 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
15357 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
15358 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
15359 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
15360 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
15361 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
15362 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
15363 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
15364 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
15365 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
15366 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
15367 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
15368 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
15370 o Documentation fixes:
15371 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
15374 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
15375 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
15376 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
15377 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
15380 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
15381 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
15382 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15385 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
15386 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
15387 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
15388 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
15389 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
15390 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
15391 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
15392 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
15394 o Security features:
15395 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
15396 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
15397 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
15398 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
15399 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
15400 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
15401 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
15402 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
15403 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
15407 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
15408 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
15409 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
15412 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
15413 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
15414 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
15415 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
15416 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15417 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
15418 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
15419 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
15420 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
15421 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
15422 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15423 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
15424 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
15425 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
15427 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
15428 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15429 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
15430 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
15431 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15433 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
15434 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
15435 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
15436 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15437 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
15438 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
15439 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15440 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
15441 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
15442 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
15443 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
15444 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
15445 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
15446 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15447 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
15448 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
15449 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
15450 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
15451 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
15452 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
15454 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15455 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
15456 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
15457 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
15458 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
15459 testable, and a little less fragile too.
15460 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
15461 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15463 o Documentation fixes:
15464 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
15465 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
15469 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
15470 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
15474 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
15475 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
15476 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15479 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
15480 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
15484 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
15485 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
15489 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
15490 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
15491 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15492 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
15493 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
15494 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
15495 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
15499 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
15500 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
15501 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
15502 log messages less noisy.
15505 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
15506 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
15510 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
15511 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
15512 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
15513 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
15514 last time we raised it).
15517 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
15518 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
15520 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
15521 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
15522 part of ticket 6736.
15523 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
15524 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
15525 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
15529 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
15530 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
15531 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
15532 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
15533 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
15535 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
15536 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15537 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
15538 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
15539 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15540 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
15541 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
15542 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15543 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
15544 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15545 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
15546 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15548 o Removed features:
15549 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
15550 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
15551 bunch of compatibility code.
15553 o Code refactoring:
15554 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
15555 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
15556 the ORPort and the DirPort.
15559 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
15560 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
15561 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
15562 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
15564 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
15565 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
15566 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
15568 o Major features (bridges):
15569 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
15570 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
15571 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
15574 o Major features (IPv6):
15575 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
15576 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
15577 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
15578 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
15579 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
15580 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
15581 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
15582 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
15583 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
15585 o Major features (build):
15586 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
15587 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
15588 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
15589 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
15590 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
15591 fixes by Jim Meyering.
15592 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
15593 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
15594 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
15596 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
15597 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
15598 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
15599 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
15600 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
15601 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
15602 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
15603 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
15604 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
15605 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
15606 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
15608 o Minor features (streamlining);
15609 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
15610 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
15612 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
15613 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
15614 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
15615 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
15616 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
15617 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15619 o Minor features (controller):
15620 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
15622 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
15623 Implements ticket 4971.
15625 o Minor features (IPv6):
15626 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
15627 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
15628 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
15629 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
15630 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
15632 o Minor features (log messages):
15633 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
15634 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
15635 Resolves ticket 6758.
15636 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
15637 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
15638 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
15639 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15640 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
15641 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
15642 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
15644 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
15645 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
15646 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
15647 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
15648 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
15651 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15652 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
15653 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
15654 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
15655 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
15657 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
15658 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
15659 Implements ticket 5529.
15660 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
15661 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
15662 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
15663 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
15664 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
15665 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
15666 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
15667 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
15668 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
15669 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
15671 o New requirements:
15672 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
15673 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
15674 from a source distribution.)
15677 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
15678 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
15679 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
15680 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
15681 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
15682 and cleans up other smaller issues.
15684 o Major bugfixes (security):
15685 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
15686 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
15687 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
15688 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
15689 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
15690 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
15691 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
15692 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
15693 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
15694 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
15695 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
15696 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15697 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
15698 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
15699 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
15700 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
15704 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
15705 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
15706 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
15707 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15708 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
15709 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
15710 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
15711 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
15712 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
15713 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15716 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
15717 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
15718 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
15719 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
15720 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15721 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
15722 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
15723 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
15724 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
15725 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
15726 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
15728 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
15729 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
15730 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
15732 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
15733 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
15734 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
15735 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
15736 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15737 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
15738 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
15739 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
15740 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15741 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
15742 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15743 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
15744 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
15745 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
15748 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
15749 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
15750 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
15751 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
15752 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15753 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
15754 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
15755 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
15756 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
15757 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
15758 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
15759 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
15760 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
15761 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
15762 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
15765 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
15766 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
15767 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
15768 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
15769 Resolves ticket 6732.
15772 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
15773 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
15774 attack that could in theory leak path information.
15777 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
15778 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
15779 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15780 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
15781 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
15782 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
15783 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
15784 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
15785 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
15786 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
15787 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
15788 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
15789 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
15790 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
15793 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
15794 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
15795 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
15796 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
15799 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
15800 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
15801 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15802 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
15803 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
15804 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15805 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
15806 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
15807 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
15808 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
15809 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
15810 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
15811 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
15812 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
15813 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
15814 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
15815 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
15818 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
15819 a little more useful.
15820 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
15821 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15822 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
15823 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
15824 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
15825 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
15826 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
15829 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
15830 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15831 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
15832 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15833 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
15834 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
15838 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
15839 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
15840 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
15841 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
15842 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
15845 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
15846 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
15847 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
15850 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
15852 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
15854 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15855 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
15856 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
15857 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
15858 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
15861 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
15862 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
15863 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
15864 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
15865 since the beginning of Tor.
15868 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
15869 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
15870 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
15871 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
15872 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
15873 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
15874 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
15875 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15876 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
15877 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
15880 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
15881 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
15884 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
15885 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
15886 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
15887 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
15890 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
15891 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15892 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
15893 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
15894 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
15895 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15897 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15898 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
15899 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
15900 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
15901 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
15902 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
15903 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15904 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
15905 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
15906 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
15907 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
15908 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
15909 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
15910 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15911 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
15912 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
15913 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15914 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
15915 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
15917 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
15918 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
15919 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
15921 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
15922 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15923 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
15924 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
15926 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
15927 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15928 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
15929 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15930 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
15931 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
15932 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15933 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
15934 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
15935 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
15936 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15937 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
15938 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
15939 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
15940 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
15941 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
15944 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
15945 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
15946 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
15947 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
15948 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
15951 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
15952 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
15953 options. Closes bug 4748.
15956 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
15957 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
15958 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
15959 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
15960 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
15964 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
15965 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
15967 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
15968 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
15969 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
15970 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
15971 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
15972 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
15973 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
15974 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
15975 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
15978 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
15979 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
15980 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
15981 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
15982 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
15983 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
15984 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
15985 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
15988 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
15989 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
15990 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
15991 case for flushing marked connections.
15992 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
15993 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15994 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
15995 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
15996 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
15997 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
15998 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15999 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
16000 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16001 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
16002 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
16003 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
16004 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
16005 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
16006 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
16007 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
16008 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16009 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
16010 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
16011 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
16012 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
16013 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
16014 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16015 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
16016 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
16018 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
16019 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16020 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
16024 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
16025 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
16026 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
16027 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
16028 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
16029 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
16030 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
16031 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
16032 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
16033 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
16034 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
16035 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
16036 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
16037 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
16038 Addresses ticket 5458.
16039 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16041 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16042 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
16043 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
16046 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
16047 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
16048 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
16052 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
16053 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
16054 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
16055 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
16056 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
16057 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
16058 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16059 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
16060 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
16061 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
16062 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16065 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
16066 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16069 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
16070 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
16073 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
16074 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
16075 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
16076 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
16077 that get us closer to a release candidate.
16079 o Major bugfixes (general):
16080 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
16081 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
16082 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
16083 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
16084 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
16085 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
16086 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16087 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
16088 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
16090 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
16091 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
16092 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
16093 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
16096 o Major bugfixes (clients):
16097 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
16098 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
16099 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
16100 which introduced predicted ports.
16101 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
16102 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
16103 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
16104 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16105 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
16106 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
16107 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
16108 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
16109 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
16110 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
16111 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16112 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
16113 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
16115 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16116 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
16117 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
16118 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
16119 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
16120 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16121 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
16122 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
16123 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
16124 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
16125 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
16129 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
16130 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
16131 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
16132 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
16133 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
16134 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
16135 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
16136 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
16137 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
16138 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
16139 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
16140 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
16141 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
16142 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
16144 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
16145 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
16146 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
16147 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
16148 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
16149 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
16150 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
16151 sure. Closes bug 5139.
16152 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
16153 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
16154 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
16155 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
16156 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
16157 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
16158 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16160 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
16161 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
16162 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
16163 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
16164 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
16165 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
16166 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
16167 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
16168 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
16169 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
16170 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
16171 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
16172 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
16173 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
16174 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
16175 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
16176 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
16177 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16178 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
16179 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
16181 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16182 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
16183 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
16184 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
16185 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
16186 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
16187 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16188 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
16189 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
16190 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
16191 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
16192 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
16193 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
16195 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
16196 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16197 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
16198 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
16200 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
16201 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
16202 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16203 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
16204 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
16205 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16206 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
16207 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16208 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
16209 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
16211 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
16212 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
16213 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
16215 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16216 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
16217 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
16218 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
16219 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
16220 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
16221 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
16222 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
16223 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16224 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
16225 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
16226 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16227 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
16228 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
16229 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
16230 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16231 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
16232 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
16233 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
16234 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
16236 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
16237 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
16238 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16239 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
16240 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
16241 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
16243 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
16244 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
16245 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
16247 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
16248 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
16249 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
16250 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16251 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
16252 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16254 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16255 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
16256 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
16258 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
16259 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
16260 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16261 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
16262 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
16263 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16264 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
16265 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
16266 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
16267 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16268 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
16269 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
16270 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
16271 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
16272 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
16273 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
16275 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
16276 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
16277 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16278 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
16279 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
16280 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16281 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
16282 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16283 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
16284 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16285 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
16286 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
16287 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
16290 o Documentation fixes:
16291 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
16292 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
16293 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
16294 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
16295 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
16296 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
16299 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
16300 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
16304 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
16305 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
16306 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
16307 and fixes several crash bugs.
16309 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
16310 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
16311 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
16312 those packages and upgrade anyway.
16314 o Directory authority changes:
16315 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
16316 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
16320 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
16321 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
16322 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
16323 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
16324 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
16325 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
16326 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
16327 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
16328 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
16329 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
16330 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
16331 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
16332 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
16333 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
16334 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
16335 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
16336 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
16337 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
16338 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
16339 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
16340 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
16341 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
16342 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
16343 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
16344 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
16345 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
16346 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
16349 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
16350 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16351 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
16352 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
16354 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
16355 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
16357 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
16358 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
16359 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
16360 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
16361 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
16362 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
16363 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
16364 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
16367 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
16368 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
16369 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
16370 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
16371 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
16372 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
16373 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
16374 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
16375 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
16376 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
16377 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
16378 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
16379 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
16380 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
16381 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
16382 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
16383 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
16384 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
16385 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
16386 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
16387 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
16388 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
16389 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
16390 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
16391 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
16392 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
16393 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
16394 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
16395 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
16396 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
16397 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
16398 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
16399 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16400 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
16401 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16402 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
16403 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
16404 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
16405 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
16406 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16407 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
16408 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16409 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
16410 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
16411 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
16412 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16414 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
16415 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
16416 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
16417 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
16418 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
16419 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
16420 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
16421 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
16422 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
16423 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
16424 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16425 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
16426 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16427 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
16428 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
16431 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
16432 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
16433 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
16434 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
16436 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16439 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
16440 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
16441 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
16442 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
16443 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
16444 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
16445 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
16448 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
16449 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
16450 the development branch build on Windows again.
16452 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16453 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
16454 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
16455 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
16456 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
16457 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
16458 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
16459 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
16460 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
16461 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
16462 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
16463 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
16464 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16465 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
16466 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
16468 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16469 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
16470 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
16471 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16472 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
16473 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
16474 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
16475 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
16476 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
16477 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
16478 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
16479 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16482 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
16483 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
16484 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
16485 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
16486 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
16487 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
16488 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
16489 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
16490 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
16492 o Removed features:
16493 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
16494 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
16495 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
16496 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
16500 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
16501 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
16502 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
16503 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
16505 o Directory authority changes:
16506 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
16510 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
16511 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16512 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
16513 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
16515 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
16516 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
16517 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
16518 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
16519 documents entirely.
16520 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
16521 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
16522 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16524 o Major features (performance):
16525 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
16526 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
16527 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
16528 much faster than other AES implementations.
16530 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
16531 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
16532 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
16533 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
16534 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
16535 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
16536 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
16537 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
16538 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
16539 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
16540 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
16541 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
16542 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
16543 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
16544 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16545 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
16546 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
16547 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16549 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
16550 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
16551 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
16552 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16553 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
16554 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16555 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
16556 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
16557 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
16559 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
16560 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
16561 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16562 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
16563 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
16564 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
16567 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
16568 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
16569 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
16570 please let us know about it.
16571 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
16572 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
16573 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
16574 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
16575 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16576 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16577 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
16578 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
16580 o Default torrc changes:
16581 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
16582 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
16584 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
16585 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
16586 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
16589 o Removed features:
16590 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
16591 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
16592 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
16593 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
16595 o Code refactoring:
16596 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
16597 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
16598 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
16599 it would be a bad idea to start.
16602 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
16603 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
16604 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
16605 that get us closer to a release candidate.
16607 o Directory authority changes:
16608 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
16611 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
16612 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
16613 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
16614 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
16615 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
16616 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
16617 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
16618 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
16619 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
16620 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
16621 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
16622 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
16623 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
16624 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
16625 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
16626 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
16628 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
16629 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
16630 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
16631 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
16632 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
16633 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16634 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
16635 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
16636 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16637 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
16638 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
16639 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
16641 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
16642 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
16643 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16644 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
16645 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
16647 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
16648 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
16649 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
16650 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
16651 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
16652 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
16653 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
16654 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
16655 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
16656 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
16657 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
16658 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
16659 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16660 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
16661 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
16662 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
16663 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
16664 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
16665 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
16666 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
16667 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
16668 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
16671 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
16672 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
16673 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16674 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
16675 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
16676 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
16677 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
16678 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
16679 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16680 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
16681 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
16682 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
16683 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
16684 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
16685 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
16686 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
16687 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
16690 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
16691 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
16692 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16695 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
16696 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
16697 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
16698 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
16701 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
16702 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
16704 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
16705 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
16706 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
16707 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16708 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
16709 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
16710 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
16711 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16712 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
16713 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
16714 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
16715 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16718 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
16719 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
16720 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
16721 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
16722 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
16723 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
16724 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16727 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
16728 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
16729 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
16730 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16731 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
16732 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
16733 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
16734 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
16735 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
16736 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
16738 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
16739 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
16740 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
16741 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
16742 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16743 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
16744 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
16745 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
16746 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
16749 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16750 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
16751 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
16755 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
16756 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
16757 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
16758 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
16759 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
16760 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
16763 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
16764 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
16765 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
16766 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
16767 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
16768 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
16769 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
16770 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
16772 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
16773 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
16774 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
16775 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
16776 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
16777 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
16778 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
16779 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
16781 o Major security workaround:
16782 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
16783 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
16784 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
16785 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
16786 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
16787 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
16788 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
16789 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
16790 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
16791 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
16792 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
16795 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
16796 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
16797 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
16798 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
16799 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
16800 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
16801 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
16802 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16803 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
16804 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
16805 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
16806 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
16807 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
16809 o Minor features (controller):
16810 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
16811 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
16812 file. Resolves bug 1101.
16813 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
16814 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
16815 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
16816 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
16817 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
16818 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
16820 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
16821 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
16822 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
16823 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
16824 part of ticket 3457.
16825 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
16826 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
16827 circuit-status' control-port command.
16829 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16830 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
16831 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
16832 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
16833 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
16835 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
16836 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
16837 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
16838 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
16839 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
16840 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
16841 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
16843 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
16844 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
16846 o Minor features (other):
16847 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
16848 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
16849 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
16850 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
16851 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
16852 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
16853 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
16854 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
16856 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
16857 them from the other auths.
16858 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
16859 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
16860 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
16861 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
16862 the 0.2.3.x series.
16863 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16865 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16866 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
16867 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
16868 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
16869 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
16870 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
16871 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
16872 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
16873 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
16874 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
16875 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16876 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
16877 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
16878 be disabled using the new
16879 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
16880 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16881 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
16882 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
16883 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
16884 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
16885 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
16886 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
16887 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
16888 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
16889 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
16890 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
16892 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
16893 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
16894 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
16897 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16898 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
16899 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
16901 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
16902 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
16903 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
16904 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
16905 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16906 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
16907 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16909 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
16910 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
16911 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
16912 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
16913 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
16914 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
16915 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
16916 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
16918 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
16919 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
16920 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16921 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
16922 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
16923 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
16924 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
16925 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
16926 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
16929 o Minor bugfixes (other):
16930 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
16931 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
16932 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
16933 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
16934 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
16935 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
16936 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
16937 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
16938 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
16939 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
16940 accidentally been reverted.
16941 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
16942 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
16943 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
16944 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
16945 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
16946 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
16947 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16948 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
16949 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
16950 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16951 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
16952 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
16953 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
16954 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
16955 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16956 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
16957 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16958 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
16959 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16962 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
16963 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
16964 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
16965 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
16966 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
16967 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
16968 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
16970 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16971 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
16972 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
16973 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
16974 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
16975 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
16976 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
16978 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
16979 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
16980 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
16981 invalid value, rather than just -1.
16982 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
16983 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
16984 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
16985 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
16986 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
16987 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
16988 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
16992 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
16993 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
16994 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
16996 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
16997 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
16998 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
16999 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
17000 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
17001 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
17002 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
17003 (which Tor does not do by default).
17005 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
17006 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
17007 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
17008 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
17009 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
17011 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
17015 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17016 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17017 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17018 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17021 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
17022 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
17023 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
17024 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
17025 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
17026 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
17027 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
17028 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
17029 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
17030 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
17031 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17034 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17037 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
17038 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
17039 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
17041 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
17042 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
17043 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
17044 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
17045 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
17046 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
17047 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
17048 (which Tor does not do by default).
17050 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
17051 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
17052 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
17053 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
17054 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
17056 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
17057 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
17058 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
17061 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
17062 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
17063 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
17064 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
17065 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
17067 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
17068 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
17071 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17072 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17073 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17074 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17075 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
17076 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
17077 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
17078 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
17080 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
17081 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
17082 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
17083 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
17084 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
17085 close based on processing a cell on it.
17086 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17087 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17088 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17089 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17090 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
17091 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
17092 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17093 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
17094 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
17095 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
17096 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
17097 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
17098 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
17099 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
17100 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
17103 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
17104 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
17105 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
17106 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
17107 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
17108 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
17109 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
17111 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
17112 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
17113 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
17114 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
17115 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
17116 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17117 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
17118 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
17119 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17120 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
17121 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
17122 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
17123 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
17124 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17125 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
17126 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
17127 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
17128 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
17129 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17130 Reported by "troll_un".
17131 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
17132 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17133 Reported by "troll_un".
17134 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
17135 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
17136 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
17137 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
17140 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
17141 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
17142 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
17143 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
17144 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
17145 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
17146 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
17147 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
17148 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
17149 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
17150 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17152 o Packaging changes:
17153 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
17154 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
17157 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
17158 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
17159 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
17160 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
17161 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
17163 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
17164 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
17166 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17167 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17168 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17169 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17170 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17171 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
17172 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
17173 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
17174 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
17177 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17180 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
17181 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
17182 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
17183 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
17184 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
17185 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
17186 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
17189 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
17190 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
17191 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
17192 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
17193 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
17194 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
17195 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
17196 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
17197 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
17198 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
17199 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
17200 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
17201 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
17202 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
17203 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
17204 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
17205 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
17206 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
17207 Resolves ticket 4526.
17208 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
17209 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
17210 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
17211 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
17212 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
17213 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
17214 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
17215 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
17216 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
17217 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
17218 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
17219 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
17220 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
17221 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
17222 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
17223 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
17226 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
17227 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
17228 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
17229 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
17230 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
17231 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
17232 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
17233 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
17234 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
17235 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
17237 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
17238 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
17239 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
17240 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
17241 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
17242 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
17243 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
17244 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
17245 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
17247 o Minor features (new/different config options):
17248 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
17249 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
17250 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
17251 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
17252 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
17253 Implements issue 933.
17254 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
17255 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
17256 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
17257 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
17258 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
17259 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
17260 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
17261 appending to the list.
17262 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
17263 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
17264 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
17265 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
17267 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
17268 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
17269 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
17270 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
17271 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
17272 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
17273 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
17274 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
17277 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
17278 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
17279 Resolves ticket 2474.
17280 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
17281 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
17282 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
17283 Required by fix for bug 3460.
17284 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
17285 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
17286 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
17287 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
17288 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
17289 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
17290 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
17291 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
17292 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
17294 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17295 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
17296 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
17298 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
17300 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
17301 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
17303 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
17304 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
17305 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
17306 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
17307 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
17308 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
17309 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
17311 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
17312 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
17313 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17314 Reported by "troll_un".
17315 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
17316 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17317 Reported by "troll_un".
17318 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
17319 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
17320 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
17321 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
17323 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
17324 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
17326 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
17327 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
17328 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
17329 with help from wanoskarnet.
17330 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
17331 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17334 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
17335 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
17336 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
17337 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17339 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
17340 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
17341 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
17342 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
17343 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
17344 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
17345 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
17346 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
17349 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
17350 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
17351 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
17352 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
17353 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
17354 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
17355 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
17356 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
17357 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
17360 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
17361 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
17362 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
17363 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
17365 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
17366 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
17367 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
17368 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17369 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
17370 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
17371 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
17372 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
17373 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
17374 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
17375 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
17376 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
17377 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
17378 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
17379 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
17380 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
17381 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
17382 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
17383 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
17384 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
17385 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
17386 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
17387 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
17388 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
17391 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
17392 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
17393 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
17394 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
17395 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
17396 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17397 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
17398 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
17401 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17402 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
17403 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
17404 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
17405 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
17406 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
17407 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
17408 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
17409 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
17410 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
17411 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
17412 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
17413 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
17414 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
17415 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
17417 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
17418 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
17419 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
17420 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
17421 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17422 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
17423 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
17424 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17425 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
17426 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
17427 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
17428 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
17429 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
17430 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17431 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
17432 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
17433 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17435 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17436 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
17437 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
17438 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
17439 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17440 Found by frosty_un.
17441 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
17442 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
17443 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
17445 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
17446 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
17447 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
17449 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
17450 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
17452 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
17453 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17456 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
17457 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
17458 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
17459 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
17460 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
17461 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
17462 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
17463 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
17464 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
17465 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
17466 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
17467 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
17468 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
17469 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
17471 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
17472 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
17473 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17475 o Packaging changes:
17476 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
17477 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
17479 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17480 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
17481 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
17482 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
17483 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
17484 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
17485 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
17486 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
17487 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
17490 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
17492 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
17493 ./src/test/bench binary.
17494 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
17495 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
17498 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
17499 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
17500 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
17504 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
17505 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
17506 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
17507 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
17508 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
17509 close based on processing a cell on it.
17510 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
17511 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
17512 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17513 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
17514 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
17515 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
17516 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
17517 cells were introduced.
17520 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
17521 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
17524 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
17525 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
17526 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
17527 users. Everybody should upgrade.
17529 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
17530 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
17533 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
17534 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
17535 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
17536 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
17537 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
17538 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
17540 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
17541 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
17542 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
17543 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
17544 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
17545 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
17546 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
17547 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
17548 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
17549 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
17550 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
17551 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
17552 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
17553 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
17554 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
17555 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
17556 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
17557 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
17560 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17561 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
17562 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
17563 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
17564 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
17565 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
17566 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
17567 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
17568 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
17569 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
17570 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
17571 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
17572 Partly fixes bug 3825.
17573 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
17574 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
17575 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
17576 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
17577 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
17578 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
17579 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
17581 o Major bugfixes (other):
17582 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
17583 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
17584 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
17585 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17586 Found by "frosty_un".
17587 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
17588 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
17589 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
17590 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
17591 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
17592 immensely in tracking this bug down.
17593 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
17594 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
17597 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
17598 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
17599 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
17600 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
17601 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
17602 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
17603 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
17604 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
17605 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
17606 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
17607 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
17608 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
17609 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
17610 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17611 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
17612 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
17613 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
17614 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
17615 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
17616 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
17617 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
17619 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
17620 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
17621 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
17622 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17623 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
17624 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
17625 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
17626 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
17627 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
17628 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
17629 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
17632 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
17633 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
17634 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
17635 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
17636 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
17637 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
17638 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
17639 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
17640 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
17641 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
17642 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
17643 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
17644 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
17645 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17647 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17648 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
17649 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
17650 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
17651 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
17652 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
17653 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
17654 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
17657 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
17658 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
17659 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
17661 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
17662 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
17663 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
17664 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
17665 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
17666 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
17667 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
17668 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
17669 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
17670 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
17671 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
17672 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
17673 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
17675 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
17676 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
17677 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
17678 currently connected to them.
17680 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
17681 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
17682 remain; see for example proposal 188.
17684 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
17685 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
17686 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
17687 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
17688 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
17689 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
17690 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
17691 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
17692 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
17693 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
17694 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
17695 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
17696 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
17697 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
17698 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
17699 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
17700 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
17701 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
17704 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
17705 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
17706 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
17707 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
17708 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
17709 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
17710 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
17711 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
17712 when bridges were introduced.
17713 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
17714 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
17715 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
17716 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17717 Found by "frosty_un".
17720 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
17721 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
17723 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
17724 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
17725 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
17726 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
17727 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
17728 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
17729 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
17732 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
17733 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
17734 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
17735 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
17736 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
17737 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
17738 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
17739 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
17740 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
17741 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
17742 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
17743 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
17744 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
17745 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
17746 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
17747 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
17748 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
17749 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
17751 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
17752 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
17753 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
17754 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17755 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
17756 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
17757 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
17758 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
17759 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
17760 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
17761 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
17762 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17765 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
17766 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
17767 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
17768 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17771 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
17772 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
17773 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
17774 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
17775 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
17777 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17778 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
17779 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
17780 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
17781 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
17782 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
17783 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
17784 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
17785 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
17786 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17788 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17789 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
17790 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
17791 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
17792 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
17793 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
17794 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
17795 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
17796 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
17797 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
17798 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
17799 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
17800 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
17801 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
17802 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17803 Found by "frosty_un".
17804 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
17805 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
17806 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
17807 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
17808 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
17809 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
17810 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
17811 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
17812 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17813 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
17814 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
17815 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
17816 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17817 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
17818 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
17819 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
17820 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
17821 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
17822 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
17824 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17825 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
17826 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
17827 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
17828 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
17829 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
17830 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
17831 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
17833 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
17834 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
17835 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
17836 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
17837 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
17838 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
17839 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
17840 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
17841 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
17842 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
17843 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
17844 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
17846 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
17847 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17848 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
17849 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17850 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
17851 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17852 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
17853 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
17854 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
17856 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
17858 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
17859 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
17860 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
17861 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17862 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
17863 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
17864 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
17865 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17867 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
17868 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
17869 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
17870 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
17871 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
17873 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
17874 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
17875 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
17876 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
17877 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17880 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
17881 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
17882 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
17883 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
17884 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
17887 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
17888 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
17889 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
17890 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
17891 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
17892 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
17893 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
17894 when bridges were introduced.
17897 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
17898 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
17899 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17901 o Major features (networking):
17902 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
17903 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
17904 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
17905 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
17906 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
17910 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
17911 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
17912 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
17914 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
17915 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
17916 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
17917 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
17918 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17920 o Minor features (diagnostics):
17921 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
17922 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
17925 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
17926 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
17927 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
17928 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
17929 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
17930 listed in the network consensus and republish.
17932 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17933 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
17934 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
17935 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17937 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
17938 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
17939 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
17940 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
17941 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
17942 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
17943 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
17944 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
17945 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
17946 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
17947 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
17949 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17950 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
17951 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
17952 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
17953 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
17954 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
17955 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
17956 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
17957 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
17958 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17960 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17961 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
17962 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
17963 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
17964 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
17965 fixes part of bug 2442.
17966 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
17967 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
17968 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
17970 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
17971 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
17972 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
17973 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
17974 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17976 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
17977 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
17978 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
17979 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
17980 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
17983 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
17984 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
17985 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
17989 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
17990 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
17991 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
17992 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
17993 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
17994 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
17995 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
17998 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
17999 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
18000 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
18001 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
18002 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
18003 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
18004 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
18007 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
18008 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
18009 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
18010 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
18011 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
18012 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18013 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
18014 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
18015 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18017 o Code refactoring:
18018 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
18019 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
18022 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
18023 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
18024 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
18025 reachable from Iran again.
18028 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
18029 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
18030 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18032 o Minor features (security):
18033 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
18034 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
18035 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
18036 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
18037 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
18038 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
18039 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
18040 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
18041 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
18042 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
18045 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
18046 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
18047 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
18048 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
18049 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
18050 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
18051 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
18052 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
18053 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18055 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
18056 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
18057 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
18058 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
18059 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
18060 raised by bug 3898.
18061 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
18062 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
18063 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
18064 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
18065 fixes part of bug 2442.
18066 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
18067 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
18068 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
18070 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
18071 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
18072 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
18073 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
18074 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18077 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
18078 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18079 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
18080 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
18081 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
18082 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
18085 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
18086 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
18087 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
18088 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
18089 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
18090 bufferevent-based networking backend.
18092 o Major features (stream isolation):
18093 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
18094 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
18095 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
18096 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
18097 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
18098 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
18099 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
18100 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
18101 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
18102 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
18103 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
18104 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
18105 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
18106 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
18108 o Major features (other):
18109 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
18110 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
18111 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
18112 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
18113 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
18114 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
18115 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
18116 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
18117 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
18118 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
18119 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
18120 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
18121 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
18123 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
18124 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
18126 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
18127 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
18128 Fixes part of bug 3752.
18129 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
18130 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
18131 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
18132 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
18133 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
18134 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
18135 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
18136 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
18137 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
18138 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
18139 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
18140 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
18141 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
18142 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
18143 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
18144 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
18145 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
18147 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
18148 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
18149 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
18150 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
18151 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
18152 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
18155 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
18156 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
18157 user. Implements ticket 1692.
18158 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
18159 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
18160 best copy data out of a buffer.
18161 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
18162 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
18163 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
18165 o Minor features (build compatibility):
18166 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
18167 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
18168 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18170 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
18171 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18173 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
18174 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
18175 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18176 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
18177 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
18178 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
18179 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18181 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
18182 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
18183 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
18184 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
18185 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
18186 raised by bug 3898.
18187 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
18188 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
18189 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
18192 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
18193 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
18194 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
18195 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
18196 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
18197 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
18198 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
18199 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
18200 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
18201 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
18202 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
18203 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18204 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
18205 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
18206 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
18207 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
18208 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
18209 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
18210 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
18213 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18214 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
18215 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
18219 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
18220 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
18221 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
18222 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
18223 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
18224 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
18227 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
18228 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
18229 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
18230 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
18231 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
18232 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
18233 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
18234 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
18235 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
18236 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
18238 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
18239 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
18240 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
18241 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
18242 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
18243 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
18244 many many other features and bugfixes.
18247 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
18248 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
18249 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
18252 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
18253 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
18254 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
18255 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
18256 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
18257 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
18258 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
18259 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
18262 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18265 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
18266 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
18267 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18268 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
18269 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
18270 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
18271 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
18272 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
18273 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
18274 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
18275 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
18276 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
18277 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
18278 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18279 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
18280 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
18281 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
18282 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
18286 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
18287 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
18288 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
18289 up a variety of recently introduced features.
18292 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
18293 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
18294 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
18295 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
18296 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
18297 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
18298 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
18299 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
18300 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
18301 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
18302 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
18303 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
18304 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
18305 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
18306 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
18307 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
18309 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
18310 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
18311 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
18312 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
18313 order. Fixes bug 2798.
18314 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
18315 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
18316 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
18317 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
18318 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
18319 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
18323 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
18324 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
18325 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
18326 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
18328 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
18329 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
18330 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
18331 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
18332 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
18333 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
18334 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
18335 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
18336 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
18337 Implements ticket 3264.
18338 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
18339 implements ticket 3439.
18341 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
18342 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
18343 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
18344 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
18345 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
18346 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
18347 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
18348 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
18349 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
18350 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
18351 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
18352 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
18353 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
18354 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
18355 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
18356 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
18357 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
18358 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
18359 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
18360 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
18361 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
18362 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
18363 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
18364 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
18365 fails. Spotted by coverity.
18366 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
18367 present. Found by coverity.
18368 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
18369 a directory cache that provides them.
18371 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18372 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
18373 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
18374 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
18375 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
18376 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
18378 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
18379 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
18380 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18381 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
18382 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
18383 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18384 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
18385 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
18387 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18388 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
18389 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
18390 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
18391 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
18392 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
18393 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
18395 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
18399 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
18400 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
18401 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
18404 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
18405 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
18406 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
18407 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
18410 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
18411 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
18412 discovered by katmagic.
18413 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
18414 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
18415 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
18416 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18417 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
18418 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
18419 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
18420 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18421 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
18422 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
18423 fixes part of bug 3465.
18424 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
18425 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
18429 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18432 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
18433 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
18434 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
18435 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
18436 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
18439 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
18440 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
18441 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
18442 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
18443 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
18446 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
18447 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
18448 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
18449 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
18450 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
18451 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
18454 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
18455 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
18456 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
18457 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18458 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
18459 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
18460 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
18461 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
18462 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
18463 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
18464 fixes part of bug 3407.
18465 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
18466 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
18467 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
18468 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
18469 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
18470 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
18471 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
18472 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
18473 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
18474 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
18476 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
18477 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
18478 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
18479 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
18482 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18484 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18485 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
18486 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
18488 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
18490 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
18493 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
18494 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
18495 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
18496 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
18497 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
18498 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
18502 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
18503 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
18504 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
18505 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18506 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
18507 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
18508 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
18510 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
18511 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18512 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
18513 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
18514 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
18515 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
18516 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
18517 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
18518 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
18519 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
18520 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
18521 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
18522 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
18523 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
18524 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
18525 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
18526 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
18527 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
18528 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
18532 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
18533 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
18534 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
18535 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
18536 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
18537 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
18538 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
18539 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
18540 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
18544 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
18545 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
18546 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
18548 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
18550 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
18551 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
18552 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
18553 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
18554 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18555 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
18556 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
18557 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
18558 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
18560 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
18561 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
18562 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
18563 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
18564 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
18565 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
18567 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
18568 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
18570 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
18571 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
18572 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18575 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
18576 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
18577 Resolves ticket 3252.
18578 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
18579 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
18580 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
18581 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
18582 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
18583 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
18586 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
18587 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
18590 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
18591 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
18592 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
18595 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
18596 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18597 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
18598 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
18599 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
18602 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
18603 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18604 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
18605 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
18606 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
18607 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
18608 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
18609 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
18610 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
18614 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
18615 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
18616 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
18617 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
18618 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
18620 o Security/privacy fixes:
18621 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
18622 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
18623 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
18624 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
18625 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
18626 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
18627 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
18628 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
18629 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
18630 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
18631 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
18632 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
18633 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
18634 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
18635 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18638 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
18639 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
18640 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
18641 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
18642 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
18643 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
18644 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
18645 part of ticket 3076.
18646 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
18647 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
18648 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
18652 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
18653 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
18654 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
18655 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
18656 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
18657 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
18658 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
18659 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
18661 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
18662 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
18663 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
18664 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
18665 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
18666 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
18667 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
18668 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
18669 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
18670 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
18671 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
18672 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
18673 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18676 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
18677 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
18678 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
18679 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
18680 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
18681 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
18682 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
18684 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
18685 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
18686 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
18687 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
18688 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
18689 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
18690 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
18691 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
18692 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
18693 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
18694 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
18695 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
18696 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
18697 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
18698 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
18699 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
18701 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
18702 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
18704 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
18705 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
18707 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
18708 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
18710 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
18711 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
18712 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18714 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
18715 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
18716 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
18717 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
18718 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18719 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
18720 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
18721 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
18722 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
18723 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
18724 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
18726 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
18727 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
18728 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
18729 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
18730 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
18731 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
18732 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
18733 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
18734 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
18735 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
18736 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18737 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
18738 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
18741 o Removed features:
18742 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
18743 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
18744 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
18748 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
18749 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
18750 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
18751 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
18752 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
18753 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
18755 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
18756 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
18757 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
18760 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
18761 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
18762 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
18763 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
18764 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
18765 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
18766 zero-copy transports where available.
18767 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
18768 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
18769 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
18770 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
18771 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
18772 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
18773 debug it as it breaks.
18774 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
18775 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
18776 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
18777 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
18778 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
18779 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
18780 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
18781 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
18782 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
18783 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
18784 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
18785 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
18786 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
18787 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
18788 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
18789 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
18790 PortForwarding option.
18791 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
18792 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
18793 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
18794 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
18795 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
18796 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
18797 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
18800 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
18801 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
18802 Implements enhancement 1668.
18803 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
18805 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
18806 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
18807 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
18808 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
18809 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
18810 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
18811 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
18813 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
18814 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
18815 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
18816 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
18817 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
18818 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
18819 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
18821 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
18822 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
18823 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
18824 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
18825 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
18826 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
18827 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
18829 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
18830 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
18831 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
18832 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
18833 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18834 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
18835 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
18836 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
18837 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
18838 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
18839 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
18840 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
18841 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
18842 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
18843 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
18846 o Minor features (controller):
18847 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
18848 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
18849 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
18850 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
18851 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
18852 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
18853 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
18856 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
18857 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
18858 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
18859 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
18860 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
18861 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
18862 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
18863 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
18865 o Minor packaging issues:
18866 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
18867 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
18869 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18870 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
18871 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
18872 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
18873 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
18874 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
18875 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
18876 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
18877 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
18878 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
18879 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
18880 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
18881 our library structure used to force them to link it.
18883 o Removed features:
18884 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
18885 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
18886 are no longer in use as servers.
18888 o Documentation fixes:
18889 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
18890 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
18891 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
18895 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
18896 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
18897 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
18898 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
18899 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
18900 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
18901 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
18902 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
18903 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
18904 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
18907 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
18908 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
18909 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
18910 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18911 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
18912 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
18913 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
18914 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
18915 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
18916 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18917 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
18918 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
18919 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18920 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
18921 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
18922 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
18924 o Security and stability fixes:
18925 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
18926 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
18927 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
18928 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
18929 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
18930 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
18931 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
18932 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
18933 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
18934 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
18935 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
18936 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
18937 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18938 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
18939 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
18940 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18943 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
18944 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
18945 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
18946 contributions to the network.
18948 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
18949 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
18950 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
18951 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
18952 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
18953 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
18954 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
18955 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
18956 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
18957 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
18958 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
18959 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
18960 connections to directory servers.
18961 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
18962 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
18963 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
18964 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
18965 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
18966 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
18967 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
18968 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
18969 information, or fetch directory information.
18970 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
18971 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
18972 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
18973 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
18974 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
18975 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
18976 unless you really want your Tor to break.
18977 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
18978 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
18979 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
18980 - When StrictNodes is 1:
18981 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
18982 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
18983 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
18984 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
18985 reachability self-tests.
18986 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
18987 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
18988 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
18989 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
18990 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
18991 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
18992 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
18994 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
18995 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18996 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
18997 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
18998 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
18999 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19000 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
19001 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
19002 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
19003 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
19004 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
19007 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
19008 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
19009 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
19010 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
19011 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
19012 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
19013 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
19014 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19015 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
19016 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
19017 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
19018 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19019 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
19020 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
19021 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
19022 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
19023 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
19025 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
19026 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
19027 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
19028 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
19029 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19030 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
19031 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19032 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
19033 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19034 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
19035 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
19036 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
19037 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
19038 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
19039 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
19040 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19041 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
19042 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
19043 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
19044 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
19047 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
19048 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
19049 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
19050 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
19051 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
19052 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
19053 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
19054 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
19055 Required by fix for bug 3000.
19056 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
19057 by fix for bug 3000.
19058 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
19059 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
19061 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19062 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
19063 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
19064 send a body too). Since only server versions before
19065 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
19066 keep the workaround in place.
19067 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
19068 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
19069 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
19070 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
19071 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
19072 want to do it differently.
19073 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
19074 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
19075 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
19076 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
19077 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
19081 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
19082 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
19083 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
19084 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
19085 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
19088 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
19089 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
19090 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
19091 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
19092 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
19094 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
19095 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
19096 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
19097 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
19098 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
19099 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
19100 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
19101 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
19102 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
19103 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
19104 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
19105 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
19108 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
19109 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
19110 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
19111 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
19112 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
19113 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
19114 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
19116 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
19117 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
19118 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
19119 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
19120 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
19121 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
19122 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
19123 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
19124 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
19125 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
19126 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
19127 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
19128 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
19129 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
19130 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
19131 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
19132 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
19133 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
19134 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
19135 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
19136 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
19137 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
19138 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19141 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
19142 networkstatus vote.
19143 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
19144 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
19145 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
19147 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
19148 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
19149 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
19150 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
19152 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
19153 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
19154 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
19155 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19158 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
19159 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
19161 o Documentation changes:
19162 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
19163 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
19165 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
19168 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
19169 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
19170 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
19171 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
19172 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
19173 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
19176 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
19177 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
19178 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
19179 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
19180 the rest of bug 1074.
19181 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
19182 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
19183 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19184 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
19185 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
19186 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
19187 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19188 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
19189 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
19190 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
19191 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
19192 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
19193 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
19194 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19197 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
19198 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
19199 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
19200 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
19201 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
19202 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
19203 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
19204 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
19205 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
19206 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
19207 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
19208 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
19209 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
19210 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
19212 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19213 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
19214 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
19215 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
19216 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
19217 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19219 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
19220 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
19221 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
19222 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
19223 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
19224 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
19225 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
19226 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
19227 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
19228 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19229 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
19230 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
19231 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
19232 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
19233 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
19234 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
19235 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
19236 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
19237 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
19238 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
19239 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
19240 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
19241 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
19242 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19243 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
19244 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
19246 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
19247 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
19248 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
19249 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
19250 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
19251 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
19253 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
19254 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
19255 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
19257 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19258 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
19259 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
19260 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
19261 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
19262 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
19263 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
19264 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
19265 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
19266 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
19267 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
19268 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
19269 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
19273 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
19274 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
19275 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
19276 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
19277 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
19278 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
19279 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
19280 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
19281 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
19282 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
19283 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
19284 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
19286 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19288 o Minor features (log subsystem):
19289 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
19290 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
19291 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
19293 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
19294 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
19296 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
19297 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
19298 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
19301 o Packaging changes:
19302 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
19303 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
19304 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
19307 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
19308 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
19309 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
19310 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
19311 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
19312 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
19315 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
19316 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
19317 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
19318 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
19319 the rest of bug 1074.
19320 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
19321 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19322 Found by "piebeer".
19323 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
19324 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
19325 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
19326 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
19327 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
19328 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
19329 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19332 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
19334 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19337 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
19338 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
19339 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
19340 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
19341 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
19342 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
19343 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
19344 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
19345 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
19346 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
19347 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19349 o Packaging changes:
19350 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
19351 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
19352 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
19353 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
19354 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
19355 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
19358 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
19359 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
19360 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
19361 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
19362 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
19363 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
19366 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
19367 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19368 Found by "piebeer".
19369 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
19370 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
19371 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
19372 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
19375 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
19377 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
19378 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
19379 Implements ticket 2432.
19382 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
19383 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
19384 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
19387 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
19388 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
19389 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
19390 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
19391 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
19392 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
19394 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
19395 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
19396 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
19397 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
19399 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
19400 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
19401 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
19402 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
19403 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
19404 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
19405 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
19406 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
19408 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
19409 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
19410 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
19411 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
19412 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
19413 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
19414 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
19415 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
19416 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
19417 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
19418 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
19419 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
19420 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
19421 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
19424 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
19425 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
19426 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
19427 bug reported by doorss.
19428 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
19429 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
19430 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19431 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
19432 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
19434 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
19435 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
19436 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
19437 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
19438 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
19440 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
19441 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19442 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
19444 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
19445 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
19446 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
19447 Automake 1.7 or later.
19448 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
19449 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
19450 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
19451 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
19453 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
19454 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
19455 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
19458 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
19459 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
19460 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
19461 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
19463 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
19464 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
19465 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
19466 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
19467 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
19468 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
19469 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
19470 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
19471 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
19473 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
19474 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
19475 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
19478 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
19479 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
19480 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
19481 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
19482 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
19483 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
19484 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
19485 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
19486 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
19487 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
19488 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
19489 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
19490 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
19492 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
19493 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
19497 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
19498 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
19499 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
19500 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
19501 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
19503 o Major bugfixes (security):
19504 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
19505 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
19506 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
19508 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
19509 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
19510 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
19511 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
19512 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
19513 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
19514 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
19515 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
19517 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
19518 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
19519 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
19520 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
19521 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
19522 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
19523 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
19524 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
19525 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
19526 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
19527 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
19528 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
19529 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
19530 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
19533 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19534 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
19535 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
19536 bug reported by doorss.
19537 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
19538 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
19539 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19540 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
19541 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
19543 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
19544 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
19545 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
19546 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
19547 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
19548 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
19549 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
19550 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
19551 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
19554 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19555 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
19558 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
19559 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
19560 Automake 1.7 or later.
19563 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
19564 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
19565 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
19566 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
19567 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
19570 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
19571 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
19572 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
19573 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
19574 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
19575 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
19576 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
19577 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
19578 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
19579 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
19580 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
19582 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
19583 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
19584 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
19585 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
19587 o Directory authority changes:
19588 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19591 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
19592 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
19593 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
19594 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
19595 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
19596 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19597 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
19598 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
19599 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
19602 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19603 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
19604 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
19605 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
19606 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
19607 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
19608 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
19609 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
19610 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
19611 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
19615 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
19616 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
19617 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
19618 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
19622 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
19623 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
19624 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
19625 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
19627 o Directory authority changes:
19628 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19631 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19634 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
19635 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
19636 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
19637 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
19638 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
19641 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
19642 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
19643 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
19644 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
19645 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19646 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
19647 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
19648 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
19649 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
19650 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19651 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
19652 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19653 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
19654 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
19655 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
19656 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
19657 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
19658 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
19659 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
19660 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
19661 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
19662 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
19663 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
19666 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
19667 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
19668 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
19669 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
19671 o New directory authorities:
19672 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
19676 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
19677 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
19678 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
19680 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
19681 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
19682 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
19683 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
19684 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
19685 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
19687 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
19688 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
19689 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
19692 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
19693 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
19694 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
19695 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
19696 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
19697 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
19698 Patch from mingw-san.
19701 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
19702 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
19703 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
19704 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
19705 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
19706 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
19709 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
19710 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
19711 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
19714 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
19715 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
19716 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
19717 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
19718 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19721 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
19722 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
19723 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
19724 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
19725 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
19726 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
19727 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
19728 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
19729 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
19732 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
19733 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
19734 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
19735 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
19736 to a stable release.
19739 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
19740 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
19741 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
19742 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
19743 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
19744 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
19745 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
19746 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
19747 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19748 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
19749 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
19750 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
19751 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
19752 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
19753 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
19754 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
19755 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
19756 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
19757 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
19758 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
19759 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
19760 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
19761 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
19762 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
19763 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19764 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
19765 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
19766 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
19767 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
19768 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
19769 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
19772 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19773 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
19774 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
19775 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
19776 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
19777 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
19778 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
19779 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
19780 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
19781 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
19782 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
19783 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
19784 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
19785 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19786 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
19787 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
19788 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
19790 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
19791 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
19792 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
19793 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
19794 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
19796 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
19797 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
19798 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
19799 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
19802 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
19803 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
19804 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
19805 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
19806 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
19807 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
19808 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
19809 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19811 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19812 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
19813 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
19814 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
19815 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
19816 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
19817 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
19818 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
19819 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
19820 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
19821 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
19822 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
19823 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
19824 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
19825 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
19828 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
19829 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
19830 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
19831 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
19832 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
19833 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
19834 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
19835 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
19836 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
19839 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
19840 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
19841 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
19842 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
19843 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
19845 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
19846 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
19847 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
19848 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
19849 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
19850 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
19851 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19852 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
19853 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
19854 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
19855 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
19856 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
19857 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
19858 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
19860 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19861 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
19863 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
19864 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
19865 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
19866 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
19867 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
19868 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
19869 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
19870 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
19871 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
19872 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
19873 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
19874 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
19875 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
19876 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
19877 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
19878 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
19879 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
19880 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19882 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
19883 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
19884 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
19885 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
19886 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
19887 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
19888 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
19889 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
19890 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
19891 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
19892 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
19893 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
19894 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
19896 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
19897 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
19898 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
19899 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19902 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
19903 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
19904 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
19905 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
19906 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
19907 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
19908 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
19909 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
19910 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
19911 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
19912 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
19913 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
19914 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
19915 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
19916 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
19917 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
19918 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
19919 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
19920 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
19923 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
19924 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
19925 based on the time during which we were active and not in
19926 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
19927 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
19928 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
19929 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
19930 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19932 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
19933 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
19934 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
19935 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
19936 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
19937 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
19938 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
19939 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
19940 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
19941 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19944 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
19945 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
19946 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
19947 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
19949 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
19950 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
19951 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
19952 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
19953 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
19954 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
19955 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
19956 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
19957 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
19958 the longest-lived bug prize.
19959 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
19960 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
19961 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
19962 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
19963 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
19964 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
19966 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
19967 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
19968 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
19969 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
19970 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
19971 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
19975 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19976 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
19977 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
19978 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
19979 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
19980 got suppressed since the last warning.
19981 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
19982 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
19983 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
19984 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
19985 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
19986 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
19987 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
19988 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
19989 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
19990 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
19991 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
19992 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
19993 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
19994 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
19995 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
19996 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
19997 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
19998 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
19999 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
20001 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
20002 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
20003 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
20005 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20006 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
20007 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
20008 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
20009 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
20010 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
20011 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
20012 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
20013 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
20014 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
20015 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
20016 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
20017 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
20018 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
20019 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
20021 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
20022 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
20023 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
20024 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
20025 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
20026 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20027 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
20029 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
20030 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
20031 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
20032 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
20033 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
20036 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20037 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
20038 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
20039 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
20040 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
20041 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
20042 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
20043 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
20044 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
20045 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
20046 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
20047 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
20048 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
20049 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
20050 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
20051 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
20052 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
20053 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
20056 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
20059 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
20060 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
20061 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
20062 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
20063 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
20067 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
20068 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
20069 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
20070 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
20071 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
20072 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
20073 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
20074 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
20075 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
20076 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
20077 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
20078 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
20079 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
20080 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
20081 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
20082 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
20083 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
20086 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
20087 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
20088 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
20089 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
20090 they first get the Guard flag.
20091 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
20095 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20096 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
20097 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
20098 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
20099 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
20100 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
20101 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
20102 Patch from mingw-san.
20103 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
20104 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
20106 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
20107 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
20108 Implements enhancement 1790.
20110 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
20111 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
20112 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
20113 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
20114 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
20115 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
20116 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
20117 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
20118 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
20119 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
20120 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
20121 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
20122 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20123 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
20124 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
20125 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
20126 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
20127 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
20128 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
20129 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
20131 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
20132 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
20133 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
20134 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
20135 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
20136 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
20137 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
20138 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
20139 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
20140 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
20141 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
20142 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
20143 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
20145 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
20146 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
20147 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
20148 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
20149 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
20150 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20152 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20153 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
20154 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
20155 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
20156 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20157 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
20158 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
20159 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20160 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
20161 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
20162 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
20163 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
20165 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
20166 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
20167 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
20168 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
20169 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
20170 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
20171 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
20173 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
20175 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
20176 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20177 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
20178 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
20179 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
20180 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
20182 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20183 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
20184 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
20185 structures and defines in or.h for now.
20186 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
20187 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
20188 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
20189 statistics code to be more easily tested.
20190 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
20191 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
20192 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
20195 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
20196 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
20197 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
20198 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
20199 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
20200 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
20204 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
20205 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
20206 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
20207 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
20208 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
20209 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
20210 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
20211 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
20212 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
20213 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
20214 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
20215 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
20216 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
20218 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
20219 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
20220 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
20221 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
20222 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
20223 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
20224 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
20225 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
20226 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
20227 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
20228 can be controlled by the consensus.
20231 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
20232 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
20233 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
20234 more accurate data for many African countries.
20235 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
20236 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
20237 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20238 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
20239 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
20240 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
20241 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
20242 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
20243 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
20244 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
20245 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
20246 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
20248 o New directory authorities:
20249 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
20253 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
20254 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
20255 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
20256 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
20257 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
20258 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
20259 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
20260 what should go in a patch.
20261 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
20262 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
20263 over our stored history.
20264 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
20265 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
20266 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
20267 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
20268 file. Fixes bug 1296.
20269 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
20270 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
20271 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
20275 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20277 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
20278 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
20279 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
20280 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
20281 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
20282 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
20283 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
20284 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
20285 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
20286 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
20287 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
20288 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20289 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
20290 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
20291 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
20292 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
20293 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
20294 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
20295 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
20296 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
20297 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
20298 two-hop circuits are actually created.
20299 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
20300 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20301 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
20302 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20305 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
20306 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
20307 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
20308 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
20309 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
20311 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
20312 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
20315 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
20316 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
20317 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
20318 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
20319 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
20320 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
20321 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
20322 their directory fetches over TLS).
20323 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
20324 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
20325 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
20326 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
20327 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
20328 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
20329 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
20330 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
20333 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
20334 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
20338 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
20339 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20340 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
20341 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
20342 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
20343 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
20344 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20347 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
20348 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
20349 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
20350 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
20351 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
20354 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
20355 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
20356 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
20357 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
20358 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
20359 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
20360 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
20361 their directory fetches over TLS).
20364 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
20365 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
20367 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
20368 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
20369 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
20370 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
20371 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
20372 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
20373 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
20374 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
20375 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
20376 hour of their uptime.
20379 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
20380 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
20381 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
20385 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
20386 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
20387 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
20388 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
20389 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
20390 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
20392 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
20393 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
20394 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
20396 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
20397 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
20401 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
20402 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
20403 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
20407 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
20408 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
20409 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
20412 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
20413 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
20414 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
20415 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
20416 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
20417 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
20418 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
20419 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
20420 about the option without breaking older ones.
20421 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
20422 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
20423 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
20424 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
20427 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
20428 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
20429 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
20430 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
20432 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
20433 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
20434 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
20437 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
20438 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
20440 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
20441 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
20442 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
20443 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
20444 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
20445 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
20446 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20447 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
20448 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
20449 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
20450 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
20453 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
20454 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20455 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
20456 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
20457 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
20458 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
20459 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20462 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
20463 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
20464 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
20465 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
20466 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
20467 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
20470 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
20471 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
20472 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
20473 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
20475 o Major features (performance):
20476 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
20477 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
20478 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
20479 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
20480 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
20481 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
20482 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
20484 o Minor features (performance):
20485 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
20486 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
20487 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
20488 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
20489 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
20493 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
20494 speeds up the build considerably.
20496 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
20497 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
20498 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20499 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
20500 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20501 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
20502 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
20503 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20505 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
20506 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
20507 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
20509 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
20510 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
20511 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
20512 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
20514 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20515 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
20516 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
20517 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
20518 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
20519 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
20522 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
20523 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
20524 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
20526 o Directory authority changes:
20527 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
20528 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
20529 service directory authority) from the list.
20532 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
20533 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
20534 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
20535 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
20536 libraries in a security patch.
20537 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
20538 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
20539 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
20540 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
20542 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
20543 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
20544 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
20545 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
20546 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
20547 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
20548 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
20551 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
20552 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
20553 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
20554 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
20555 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
20556 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
20557 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
20558 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
20559 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
20560 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
20561 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
20562 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
20563 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
20565 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
20566 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
20567 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
20568 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
20569 control-spec.txt said they were.
20570 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
20571 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
20572 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
20573 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
20574 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20576 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20577 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
20578 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
20579 produce nicer HTML.
20580 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
20581 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
20582 iPhone SDK versions.
20583 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
20584 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
20585 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
20586 projects directory in svn.
20587 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
20588 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
20589 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
20590 high latency links.
20593 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
20594 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
20595 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
20597 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
20598 to the circuit build timeout.
20599 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
20600 arguments we do not recognize.
20601 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
20602 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
20603 open() without checking it.
20606 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
20607 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
20608 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
20609 several minor potential security bugs.
20612 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
20613 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
20614 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
20615 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
20616 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
20617 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
20618 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
20621 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
20622 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
20624 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
20625 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
20626 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
20627 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
20631 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
20632 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
20636 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
20637 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
20638 customized patches to run/build.
20641 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
20642 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
20643 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
20646 o Major bugfixes (performance):
20647 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
20648 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
20649 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
20650 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
20651 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
20652 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
20653 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
20656 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
20657 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
20658 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
20659 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
20660 libraries in a security patch.
20661 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
20662 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
20663 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
20664 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
20667 o Directory authority changes:
20668 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
20669 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
20670 service directory authority) from the list.
20673 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
20674 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
20677 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
20678 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
20679 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
20680 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
20681 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
20684 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
20685 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
20686 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
20690 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
20691 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
20692 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
20693 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
20694 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20697 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
20698 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
20699 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
20703 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
20704 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
20705 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
20706 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
20707 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
20709 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
20710 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
20712 o Directory authority changes:
20713 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
20716 o Major features (performance):
20717 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
20718 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
20719 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
20720 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
20721 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
20722 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
20723 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
20724 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
20725 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
20726 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
20727 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
20728 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
20729 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
20731 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
20732 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
20733 but never per-conn write limits.
20734 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
20735 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
20736 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
20737 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
20739 o Major features (relay selection options):
20740 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
20741 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
20742 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
20743 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
20744 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
20745 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
20746 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
20748 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
20749 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
20751 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
20752 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
20753 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
20754 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
20755 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
20756 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
20757 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
20758 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
20759 the network changes.
20762 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
20763 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
20764 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20767 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
20768 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
20769 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
20770 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
20771 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
20772 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
20773 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
20774 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
20775 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
20776 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
20777 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
20778 generated while acting as a relay.
20779 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
20780 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
20781 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
20782 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
20783 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
20784 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
20786 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
20787 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
20788 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20789 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
20790 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
20791 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
20794 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
20795 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
20796 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
20798 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
20799 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
20800 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
20802 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
20803 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
20805 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
20806 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
20807 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
20809 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
20810 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
20813 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20814 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
20815 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
20816 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
20817 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
20818 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
20819 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
20820 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
20821 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
20823 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
20826 o Removed features:
20827 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
20828 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
20829 hidden service usage.
20832 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
20833 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
20834 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
20835 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
20836 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
20838 o Directory authority changes:
20839 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
20843 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
20844 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
20845 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20848 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
20849 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
20850 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
20851 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
20852 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
20855 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
20856 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
20857 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
20858 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
20859 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
20860 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
20861 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
20864 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
20865 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
20866 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20867 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
20868 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
20869 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
20871 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
20872 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
20875 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
20876 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
20877 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
20878 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
20879 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
20880 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
20883 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
20884 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
20885 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
20887 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
20888 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
20889 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
20890 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
20891 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
20892 download consensus + microdescriptors".
20893 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
20894 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
20895 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
20896 hash algorithm in the future.
20897 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
20898 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
20899 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
20900 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
20901 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
20902 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
20903 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
20904 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
20905 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
20908 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
20909 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
20910 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
20911 won't work unless we say we are.
20914 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
20915 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
20916 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
20917 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
20918 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
20919 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
20920 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
20921 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
20922 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20923 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
20924 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
20925 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
20926 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
20927 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
20928 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
20929 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
20930 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
20931 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
20932 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
20933 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
20934 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
20935 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
20938 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
20939 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
20940 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
20941 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
20943 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
20944 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
20946 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
20947 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
20948 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
20949 in the Vidalia Settings window.
20952 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
20953 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
20954 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
20955 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
20956 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
20958 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
20959 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
20961 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
20962 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
20963 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
20966 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
20967 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
20968 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
20970 o New directory authorities:
20971 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
20973 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
20976 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
20977 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
20979 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
20980 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
20981 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20982 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
20983 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
20984 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
20985 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20986 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
20987 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
20988 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
20989 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
20990 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
20991 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
20992 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
20993 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
20994 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
20995 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
20997 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
20998 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
20999 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
21001 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21002 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21006 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21007 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21008 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21009 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21010 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21013 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
21014 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21017 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
21019 o Directory authorities:
21020 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
21024 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
21025 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
21026 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
21027 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
21028 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
21031 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
21032 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
21033 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
21034 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
21036 o New directory authorities:
21037 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
21040 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
21041 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
21042 SSL handshake issues.
21043 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
21044 during the TLS handshake.
21045 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
21046 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
21047 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
21048 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
21049 none of which are very big.
21052 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
21054 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
21055 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21056 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
21057 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
21058 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21059 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
21060 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
21061 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21064 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21065 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
21066 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
21067 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
21068 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
21071 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
21072 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21075 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
21076 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
21079 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
21080 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
21081 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21084 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
21085 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
21086 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
21087 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
21088 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
21089 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
21092 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
21093 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
21094 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
21095 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
21096 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
21097 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
21098 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
21099 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
21100 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
21101 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
21102 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
21103 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
21104 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
21105 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
21106 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
21107 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
21108 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
21109 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
21112 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
21113 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
21117 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
21118 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
21119 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21120 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
21121 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
21122 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21123 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21124 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
21125 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
21126 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
21127 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21128 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
21129 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
21130 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
21131 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
21132 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
21133 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
21134 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
21135 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
21136 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
21137 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
21139 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
21140 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
21141 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
21142 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21143 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
21144 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
21146 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
21147 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
21148 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
21151 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
21152 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
21153 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
21154 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
21155 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
21156 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
21159 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
21160 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
21161 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
21162 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
21163 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
21166 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
21167 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
21168 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
21171 o New directory authorities:
21172 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
21176 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
21177 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
21178 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
21179 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
21180 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
21183 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
21184 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
21185 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
21186 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
21187 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
21190 o New options for gathering stats safely:
21191 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
21192 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
21193 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
21194 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
21195 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
21196 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
21197 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
21198 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21199 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
21201 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
21202 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
21203 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21204 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
21206 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
21207 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
21208 their extra-info documents.
21211 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
21212 source files Tor was built with.
21213 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
21214 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
21215 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
21216 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
21217 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
21218 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
21220 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
21221 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
21222 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
21223 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
21224 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
21226 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
21227 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
21230 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
21231 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
21232 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
21233 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
21234 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
21236 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
21237 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
21239 o Deprecated and removed features:
21240 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
21241 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
21242 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
21243 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
21244 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
21245 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
21246 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
21247 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
21249 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
21250 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
21251 via application-level web tricks.
21253 o Packaging changes:
21254 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
21255 installer bundles. See
21256 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
21257 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
21258 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
21259 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
21260 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
21261 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
21262 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
21263 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
21264 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
21265 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
21266 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
21267 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
21270 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
21271 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
21272 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
21275 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
21276 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
21277 part of patch provided by "optimist".
21280 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
21281 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
21282 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
21283 and confuse fewer users.
21286 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
21287 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
21288 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
21289 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
21290 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
21291 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
21292 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
21295 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
21296 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
21297 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
21298 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
21299 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
21300 other features and bug fixes.
21303 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
21306 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
21307 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
21308 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
21309 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
21310 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
21313 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
21314 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
21315 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
21316 failure message (oops).
21319 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
21320 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
21321 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
21322 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
21326 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
21327 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
21328 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
21329 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
21330 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
21331 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
21332 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21333 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
21334 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
21335 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
21336 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
21337 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
21338 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
21339 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
21340 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21343 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
21344 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21345 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
21346 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
21347 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
21348 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
21349 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
21350 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
21351 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
21352 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
21353 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
21354 Workaround for bug 1024.
21355 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
21359 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
21360 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
21361 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
21364 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
21366 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
21367 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
21368 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
21369 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
21370 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21373 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
21374 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
21375 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
21376 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
21377 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
21378 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
21379 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
21380 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
21381 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
21382 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
21385 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
21386 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
21387 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
21388 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
21389 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
21390 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
21391 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
21392 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
21395 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
21396 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
21397 a bunch of minor bugs.
21400 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
21401 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
21402 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21404 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
21405 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
21406 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
21407 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
21409 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
21413 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
21414 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
21415 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
21417 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
21418 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
21420 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
21421 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
21423 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
21424 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
21425 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
21426 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
21427 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
21428 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
21429 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
21430 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
21432 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
21433 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
21434 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
21436 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
21437 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
21438 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
21439 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
21440 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
21444 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
21445 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
21446 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
21447 of more minor bugs.
21449 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
21450 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
21451 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
21452 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
21454 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
21455 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
21456 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
21457 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21458 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
21459 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
21460 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
21461 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
21462 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
21463 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
21464 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
21465 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21466 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
21467 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
21468 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
21469 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
21470 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
21472 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
21473 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
21474 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
21475 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21477 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
21478 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
21479 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21482 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
21483 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
21484 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
21485 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
21486 addresses to fall out of the directory.
21489 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
21490 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
21491 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
21492 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
21494 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
21495 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
21496 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
21497 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
21498 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
21499 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
21500 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
21501 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
21502 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
21503 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
21504 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
21505 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
21506 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
21507 patch by Sebastian.
21508 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
21509 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
21512 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
21513 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
21514 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
21515 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
21516 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
21517 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
21519 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
21520 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
21521 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
21522 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
21523 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
21525 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
21528 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
21529 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
21531 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
21532 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
21533 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21534 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21535 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
21536 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
21538 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
21539 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21540 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
21541 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
21542 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
21543 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21544 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
21545 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
21546 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
21547 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
21548 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
21549 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
21553 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
21554 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
21555 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
21558 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
21559 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
21560 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21562 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
21563 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
21564 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
21565 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
21566 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
21567 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
21568 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
21569 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
21570 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
21571 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
21572 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
21573 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21574 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
21575 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
21576 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21577 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
21578 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
21579 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
21580 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
21581 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
21582 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
21583 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
21584 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
21585 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
21586 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
21587 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
21589 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
21590 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
21591 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
21592 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
21593 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
21594 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
21595 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
21596 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
21597 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
21598 of 0. Suggested by lark.
21600 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
21601 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
21602 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
21603 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
21604 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21607 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
21609 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
21610 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
21611 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
21612 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
21615 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
21616 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
21617 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
21618 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
21619 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
21621 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
21622 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
21623 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
21624 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
21627 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
21628 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21629 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
21630 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
21631 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
21632 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
21633 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
21634 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
21637 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
21638 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
21639 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
21640 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
21643 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
21644 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
21645 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
21646 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
21647 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
21648 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
21651 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
21652 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
21653 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
21654 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
21655 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
21656 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21659 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
21660 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
21661 reported by Matt Edman.
21662 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
21664 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
21665 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
21666 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
21667 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
21669 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
21670 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21671 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
21672 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21673 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
21674 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
21675 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
21676 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
21677 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
21678 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
21679 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
21680 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
21681 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
21682 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21683 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
21684 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21685 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
21686 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
21687 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
21690 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
21691 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
21692 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
21693 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
21696 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
21697 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
21698 the letter of C99's alias rules.
21701 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
21702 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
21703 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
21704 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
21706 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
21707 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
21708 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
21711 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
21712 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
21715 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
21716 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
21717 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
21718 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
21719 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
21720 reported by "wood".
21721 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
21722 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
21723 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
21724 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
21725 identify a connection.
21726 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
21727 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
21728 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
21729 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
21730 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
21731 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
21732 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21733 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
21734 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
21735 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
21737 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
21738 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
21739 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
21740 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
21741 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
21742 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
21743 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
21746 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
21747 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
21749 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
21750 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
21751 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
21752 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
21753 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
21754 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
21755 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21756 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
21758 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
21759 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
21760 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
21761 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
21762 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
21763 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
21764 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
21765 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
21766 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
21767 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
21768 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
21769 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
21770 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
21771 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
21772 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
21773 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
21774 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
21775 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
21776 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
21777 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
21778 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
21779 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
21780 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
21781 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
21782 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
21783 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
21784 840. Patch from rovv.
21785 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
21786 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
21787 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
21789 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
21790 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
21791 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
21792 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
21793 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
21794 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
21795 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
21797 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21798 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
21799 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
21802 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
21803 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
21805 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
21806 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
21807 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
21808 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
21809 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
21810 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
21811 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
21812 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
21813 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
21815 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
21817 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
21818 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
21822 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
21823 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
21824 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
21825 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
21826 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
21827 have had some time to upgrade.)
21830 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
21831 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
21834 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
21835 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
21836 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
21837 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
21838 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
21841 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
21842 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
21844 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
21845 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21846 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
21847 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
21848 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
21849 entirely. Patch from coderman.
21852 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
21853 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21854 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
21855 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
21856 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
21857 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21858 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
21862 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
21863 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
21864 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
21865 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
21866 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
21867 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
21868 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
21871 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
21872 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
21873 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
21874 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
21875 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
21877 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
21878 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
21879 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
21880 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
21881 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
21882 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
21883 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21884 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
21885 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
21886 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
21890 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
21891 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
21892 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
21894 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
21895 without support for deprecated functions.
21896 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
21898 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
21899 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
21900 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
21901 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
21902 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21903 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
21904 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
21905 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
21906 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
21907 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
21908 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
21909 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
21910 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
21911 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
21912 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
21913 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
21914 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
21915 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
21916 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
21917 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
21918 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
21919 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
21920 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
21922 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
21923 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
21924 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
21925 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
21926 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
21927 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
21929 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
21930 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
21931 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
21932 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
21933 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
21935 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
21936 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
21937 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
21939 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
21940 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
21943 o Deprecated and removed features:
21944 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
21945 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
21946 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
21949 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21950 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
21951 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
21952 with log.h on Android.
21953 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
21954 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
21957 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
21958 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
21960 o New directory authorities:
21961 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
21965 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
21966 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
21967 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
21968 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
21969 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
21970 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21973 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
21974 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
21975 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
21976 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
21977 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
21978 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
21979 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
21980 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
21981 reported by "wood".
21982 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
21983 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
21984 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
21985 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
21988 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
21989 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
21991 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
21992 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
21993 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
21994 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
21995 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
21996 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
21997 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
21998 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
21999 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
22000 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
22001 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
22002 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
22003 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
22004 Implements proposal 148.
22005 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22006 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22007 system to do it for us.
22008 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
22009 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
22010 this fix will be slightly helpful.
22011 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
22012 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
22013 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
22014 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
22015 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
22016 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
22017 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
22018 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
22019 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
22022 o Minor features (controller):
22023 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
22024 been fetched and validated.
22025 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
22026 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
22027 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
22028 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
22029 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
22030 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
22033 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
22034 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22035 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
22036 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
22037 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
22039 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
22040 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
22041 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22042 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
22043 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
22044 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
22045 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
22046 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
22047 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
22049 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22050 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
22051 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
22052 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
22053 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
22054 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
22055 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
22056 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
22058 o Deprecated and removed features:
22059 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
22061 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
22062 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
22063 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
22065 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22066 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
22067 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
22069 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
22070 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
22071 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
22072 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
22073 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
22074 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
22077 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
22078 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
22079 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
22080 fixes a variety of other issues.
22083 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
22084 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
22085 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
22086 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
22089 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
22090 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
22091 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
22092 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22095 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22096 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22097 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
22101 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
22103 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
22104 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
22105 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22106 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
22107 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
22108 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
22109 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22111 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
22112 rest, and don't automatically fail.
22113 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
22114 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22115 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
22116 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
22118 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
22119 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
22120 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
22121 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
22122 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
22123 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
22124 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
22125 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
22126 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
22127 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
22129 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
22133 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
22134 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
22135 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
22137 o Minor features (controller):
22138 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
22142 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
22143 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22144 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22145 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22146 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22147 variety of other issues.
22150 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22151 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22152 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22153 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22154 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22155 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22156 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
22157 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22158 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22159 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22160 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22161 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22164 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
22165 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22167 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22168 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
22169 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
22170 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
22171 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
22172 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
22173 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22174 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
22175 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
22176 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
22177 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
22178 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
22179 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
22180 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
22181 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
22185 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
22186 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
22187 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
22188 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
22189 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
22190 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
22191 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
22192 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
22193 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
22194 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
22195 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
22196 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
22197 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
22198 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
22199 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
22200 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
22201 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
22202 list. It has been gone for many months.
22203 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
22204 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
22205 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
22208 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22209 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
22210 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
22213 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
22214 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
22215 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
22216 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
22217 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
22218 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
22219 variety of other issues.
22222 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
22223 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
22224 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
22225 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
22226 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
22227 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
22228 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
22229 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
22230 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
22231 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
22232 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
22233 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
22234 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
22235 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
22238 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
22239 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
22240 Suggested by Lucky Green.
22241 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
22242 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
22243 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
22244 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
22245 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
22246 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
22248 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
22249 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
22251 o Hidden service performance improvements:
22252 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22253 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22254 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22255 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22256 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22257 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22258 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22259 faster after restart.
22262 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
22263 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
22264 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
22265 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
22266 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
22267 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
22268 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
22269 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
22270 840. Patch from rovv.
22271 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
22272 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
22273 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
22274 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
22275 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
22276 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
22277 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
22278 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
22279 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
22281 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
22282 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
22283 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
22284 have already been marked for close.
22285 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
22286 introduction points.
22287 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
22288 memory performance during directory parsing.
22289 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
22290 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
22291 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
22292 because of a pending download.
22295 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
22296 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
22297 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
22298 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22301 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
22302 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
22303 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
22304 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
22305 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
22306 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
22307 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
22308 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
22309 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
22310 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
22311 lookups more reliable.
22312 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
22313 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
22314 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
22315 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
22316 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
22317 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
22318 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22321 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
22322 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
22323 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22324 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
22325 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
22326 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
22327 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
22328 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
22329 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
22330 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
22331 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
22333 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
22334 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
22335 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
22336 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
22337 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
22338 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22339 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
22340 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
22341 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22344 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
22345 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
22346 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
22347 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
22348 locked down these days.
22349 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
22350 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
22351 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
22352 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
22353 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
22355 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
22356 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
22357 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
22358 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
22359 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
22360 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
22361 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
22362 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
22363 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
22364 people find host:port too confusing.
22365 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
22366 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22367 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
22370 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22372 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
22373 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
22374 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
22375 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
22376 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
22378 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
22379 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
22380 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
22381 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
22382 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
22383 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
22384 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
22385 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
22386 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
22387 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
22388 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
22389 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
22391 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
22392 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
22393 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
22394 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
22395 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
22396 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
22397 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22398 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
22399 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
22401 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
22402 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
22403 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
22404 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
22405 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
22406 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22407 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
22408 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
22409 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
22410 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
22411 bug 820, reported by seeess.
22412 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
22413 list. It has been gone for many months.
22415 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22416 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
22417 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
22418 actual mistakes we're making here.
22419 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
22420 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
22421 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
22422 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
22425 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
22426 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
22427 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
22428 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22431 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22432 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22433 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22434 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
22435 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
22436 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
22438 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
22439 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
22440 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
22441 pointed out by rovv.
22444 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
22445 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22446 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
22447 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22448 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
22449 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
22450 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
22451 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
22452 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
22453 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22454 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
22455 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
22456 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
22457 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22458 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
22459 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
22460 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
22461 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
22462 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
22463 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
22464 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
22467 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
22468 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
22469 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
22470 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
22471 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
22472 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
22473 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
22476 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
22478 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
22479 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
22480 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
22481 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
22482 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
22483 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
22484 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
22486 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
22487 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
22488 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
22489 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
22490 known descriptor before building circuits.
22492 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
22493 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
22494 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
22495 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
22496 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
22497 identify a connection.
22498 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
22499 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
22500 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
22502 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
22503 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
22504 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
22505 pointed out by rovv.
22508 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
22509 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22510 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
22511 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
22512 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
22513 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22514 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
22515 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22516 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
22517 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
22518 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
22519 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
22520 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
22521 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
22522 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22525 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
22526 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
22527 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
22528 answer sections match.
22529 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
22530 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
22533 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
22534 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22537 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
22538 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
22539 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
22541 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
22542 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
22543 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22546 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
22547 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
22548 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
22549 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
22552 o Removed features:
22553 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
22554 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
22557 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
22558 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
22559 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
22560 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
22561 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
22562 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
22564 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
22565 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
22566 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
22569 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
22570 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
22571 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
22572 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
22573 be sent using an "early" cell.
22576 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
22577 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
22578 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
22579 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
22580 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22581 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22582 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22585 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
22586 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
22587 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
22588 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
22589 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
22590 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
22591 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
22592 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
22593 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
22594 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
22595 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
22596 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
22597 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
22598 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
22599 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
22600 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
22603 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
22604 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
22605 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
22606 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
22607 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
22608 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
22609 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
22610 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
22611 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
22613 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
22614 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
22615 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
22616 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
22617 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
22620 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22621 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
22622 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
22623 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
22625 o Removed features:
22626 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
22627 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
22631 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
22633 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
22634 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
22635 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
22638 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
22639 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
22640 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22643 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
22644 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
22645 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
22646 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
22647 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22648 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
22649 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
22650 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
22651 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22652 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
22653 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
22654 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
22655 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22656 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
22657 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
22658 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
22659 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
22660 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
22661 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
22662 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
22663 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
22664 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
22665 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
22668 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
22669 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
22671 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
22672 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
22673 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
22674 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
22675 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
22676 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
22677 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
22679 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
22680 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
22681 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
22682 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
22683 found by Geoff Goodell.
22686 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
22687 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
22688 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
22689 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
22690 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
22691 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
22694 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
22695 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
22696 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
22699 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
22700 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
22701 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
22702 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
22703 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22704 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
22705 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
22706 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
22707 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22708 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
22709 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
22710 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
22711 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
22712 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
22715 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
22716 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
22717 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
22719 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
22720 fingerprints with or without space.
22721 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
22722 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
22723 partway through and wants to catch up.
22724 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
22725 state to start out in.
22728 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
22729 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
22730 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22731 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
22732 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
22735 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
22736 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
22737 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
22738 some of the connection attempts fail.
22739 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
22740 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
22741 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
22742 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
22743 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
22744 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
22746 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
22747 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
22748 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
22751 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
22752 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
22753 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
22754 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
22755 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
22756 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
22757 and adds a variety of smaller features.
22760 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
22761 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
22762 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
22763 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
22765 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
22766 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
22767 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
22768 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
22770 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
22771 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
22772 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
22773 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
22774 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
22775 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
22776 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
22779 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
22780 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
22781 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
22782 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
22783 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
22785 o Memory fixes and improvements:
22786 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
22787 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
22788 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
22789 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
22790 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
22791 on a typical directory cache.
22792 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
22793 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
22794 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
22795 and may reduce fragmentation.
22796 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
22797 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
22798 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
22800 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
22801 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
22802 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
22804 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
22805 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
22809 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
22810 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
22811 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
22812 done that for a long time.
22813 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
22814 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
22815 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
22816 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
22819 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
22820 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
22821 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
22822 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
22823 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
22824 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
22826 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
22827 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
22828 output to messages of warning and error severity.
22829 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
22830 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
22831 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
22832 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
22833 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
22834 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
22835 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
22836 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
22837 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
22838 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
22839 directory requests we should expect to see.
22840 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
22842 - Lots of new unit tests.
22843 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
22844 two parallel lists in lockstep.
22847 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
22848 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
22849 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22852 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
22853 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
22854 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
22855 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
22856 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
22857 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
22858 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
22861 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
22862 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
22863 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
22867 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
22868 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
22869 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
22872 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
22873 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
22874 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
22876 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
22877 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
22879 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
22880 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
22881 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
22882 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
22883 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
22884 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
22885 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
22887 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
22888 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
22889 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
22890 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
22891 - Fix compile on Windows.
22894 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
22895 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
22896 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
22897 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
22898 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
22899 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
22900 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
22903 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
22904 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
22907 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
22908 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
22909 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
22910 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
22912 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
22913 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
22914 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
22917 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
22918 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
22919 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
22920 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
22924 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
22925 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
22926 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
22927 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
22929 o Major security fixes:
22930 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
22931 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
22932 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
22933 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
22934 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
22937 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
22938 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22941 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
22942 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
22945 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
22946 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
22949 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
22950 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
22951 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
22954 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
22955 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22958 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
22959 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
22960 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
22961 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
22962 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
22964 o New directory authorities:
22965 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
22966 it has been down for months.
22967 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
22971 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
22972 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
22974 o Minor features (security):
22975 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
22976 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
22977 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
22980 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
22981 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
22982 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
22983 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
22984 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
22985 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
22986 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
22987 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
22988 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22990 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
22991 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
22992 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22993 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
22994 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
22995 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
22996 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
22997 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
22998 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
23000 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23001 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23002 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23003 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23004 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
23005 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
23006 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
23007 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
23008 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
23009 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
23010 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23011 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
23012 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
23013 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
23014 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
23015 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
23016 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
23017 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
23018 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
23021 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
23022 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23023 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
23024 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
23027 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
23028 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
23029 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
23030 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
23033 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
23034 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23035 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
23036 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
23037 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
23040 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
23041 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
23042 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
23043 certain censored countries by default again.
23046 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
23047 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23048 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
23049 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
23050 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23051 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
23052 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
23053 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
23055 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
23056 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
23057 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
23058 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
23059 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
23060 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
23061 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
23062 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
23063 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
23064 a directory. Fix from lodger.
23066 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23067 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
23068 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
23069 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
23070 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
23071 RelayBandwidth* values.
23072 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
23073 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
23074 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
23075 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
23076 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
23077 get_interface_address6().
23078 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
23079 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
23080 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
23082 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
23083 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
23084 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
23085 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23086 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
23087 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
23088 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23089 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
23090 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
23091 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23094 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
23095 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
23096 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
23099 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
23100 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23101 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
23102 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
23103 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
23106 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
23107 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
23108 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
23109 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
23110 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
23111 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
23112 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
23113 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
23114 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
23117 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
23118 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
23119 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
23120 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23123 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
23124 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
23125 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
23126 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
23127 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
23128 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
23129 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
23132 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
23133 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
23134 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
23135 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
23136 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
23137 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
23138 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
23140 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
23141 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
23142 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
23143 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23144 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
23147 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
23148 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
23149 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
23150 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
23151 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
23152 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
23153 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23154 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
23155 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
23156 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
23157 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
23158 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
23159 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
23160 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
23161 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
23162 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23163 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
23164 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23165 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23166 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
23167 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
23168 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
23169 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
23170 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
23171 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
23172 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
23174 o Minor features (performance):
23175 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
23177 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
23178 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
23179 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
23180 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
23181 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
23182 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
23183 non-system include paths.
23184 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
23185 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
23188 o Minor features (other):
23189 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
23191 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
23192 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
23193 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
23196 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
23197 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
23198 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
23199 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
23201 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
23202 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
23203 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
23204 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
23205 Should fix bug 537.
23206 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
23207 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
23208 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23209 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
23210 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23212 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23213 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
23214 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
23215 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
23216 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
23217 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
23218 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
23219 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
23220 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
23221 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
23222 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
23223 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
23224 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
23225 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
23226 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
23227 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23228 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
23229 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
23230 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
23231 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23232 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
23233 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
23234 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
23235 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
23236 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
23239 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23240 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
23241 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
23245 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
23246 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
23247 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
23248 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
23249 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
23252 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
23253 Tor's x509 certificates.
23256 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
23257 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
23258 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23259 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
23260 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
23261 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23263 o Minor features (security):
23264 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
23265 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
23267 o Minor features (directory authority):
23268 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23269 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23270 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
23271 bandwidthburst values.
23273 o Minor features (controller):
23274 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
23275 processes from running us out of memory.
23277 o Minor features (misc):
23278 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
23279 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
23280 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
23281 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
23283 o Deprecated features (controller):
23284 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
23285 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
23286 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
23289 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
23290 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
23292 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
23293 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
23294 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23295 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
23296 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
23297 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23298 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
23299 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
23301 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
23302 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23303 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
23304 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23305 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
23306 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
23307 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
23308 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
23310 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
23311 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
23312 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
23313 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
23314 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23315 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
23316 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23317 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
23318 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23319 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
23320 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
23321 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23323 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23324 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
23326 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
23327 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
23328 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
23329 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
23330 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
23331 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
23334 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
23335 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
23336 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
23337 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
23338 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
23340 o New directory authorities:
23341 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
23345 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
23346 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
23347 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
23348 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
23349 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
23350 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
23351 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
23352 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
23356 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
23357 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
23358 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
23359 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
23360 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
23361 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
23362 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
23363 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
23364 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
23365 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
23368 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
23369 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
23370 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
23371 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
23375 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
23376 the request isn't encrypted.
23377 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
23378 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
23379 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
23380 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
23381 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
23384 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
23385 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
23388 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
23391 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
23392 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
23393 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
23395 o New directory authorities:
23396 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
23399 o Major performance improvements:
23400 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
23401 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
23402 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
23403 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
23404 memory fragmentation.
23407 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
23408 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
23409 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
23410 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
23411 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
23412 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
23413 bodies when they receive them.
23414 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
23415 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
23416 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
23418 o Minor performance improvements:
23419 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
23420 of them were actually distinct.
23421 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
23422 interested in a given message.
23425 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
23426 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
23427 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
23428 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
23429 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
23430 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
23431 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
23432 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
23433 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
23434 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
23435 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
23437 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
23438 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
23439 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
23440 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
23441 this country" and "1 person from this country".
23442 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
23443 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
23444 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
23445 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
23446 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
23448 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
23449 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
23450 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
23452 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
23453 but client versions are not.
23454 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
23455 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
23457 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
23458 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
23459 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
23460 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
23461 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
23463 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
23464 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
23465 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
23468 o Minor features (controller):
23469 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
23470 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
23471 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
23472 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
23474 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23475 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
23476 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
23477 running a test network on a single host.
23478 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
23479 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
23481 o Minor features (bridges):
23482 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
23483 unencrypted connections.
23485 o Minor features (other):
23486 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
23487 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
23488 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
23489 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
23492 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
23493 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
23494 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
23495 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23498 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
23499 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
23500 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
23501 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
23502 on network address.
23505 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
23506 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
23507 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
23508 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
23509 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
23510 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
23511 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
23512 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
23513 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
23514 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
23515 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
23516 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
23519 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
23520 rebuild our server descriptor.
23521 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
23522 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
23523 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
23524 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
23525 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
23526 nonstandard integer types.
23527 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
23528 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
23529 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
23530 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
23531 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
23533 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
23534 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
23535 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
23536 when they receive them.
23537 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
23538 This includes some 64-bit systems.
23539 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
23540 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
23541 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
23542 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
23543 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
23544 router_get_by_hexdigest().
23545 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
23546 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
23550 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
23551 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
23552 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23555 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
23556 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
23557 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
23558 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
23559 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
23560 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
23561 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
23562 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23565 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
23566 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
23567 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
23568 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
23570 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
23571 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
23574 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
23575 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
23578 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
23580 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
23581 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
23583 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
23584 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
23585 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
23586 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23587 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
23588 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
23589 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
23590 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23591 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
23592 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
23596 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
23597 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
23598 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
23601 - Make the unit tests build again.
23602 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
23603 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
23604 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
23605 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
23606 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
23607 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23608 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
23609 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
23610 the next one as a duplicate.
23613 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
23614 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
23615 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
23616 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
23619 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
23620 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
23621 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
23624 o New directory authorities:
23625 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
23629 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
23630 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
23631 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
23632 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
23633 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
23634 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
23635 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
23637 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
23638 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
23640 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
23641 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
23642 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
23643 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
23644 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
23645 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
23647 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
23648 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
23649 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23650 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
23651 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
23652 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23655 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
23656 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
23657 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
23658 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
23659 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
23660 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
23661 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
23662 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
23663 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
23664 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
23665 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
23666 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
23667 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
23668 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
23669 where Tor is blocked.
23670 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
23671 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
23672 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
23673 to a file periodically.
23674 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
23675 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
23676 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
23680 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
23681 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
23682 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
23683 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
23684 in the relevant networkstatus document.
23685 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
23686 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
23687 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23688 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
23689 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
23690 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
23691 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
23692 by Karsten Loesing.
23693 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
23694 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
23695 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
23696 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
23697 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
23698 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23699 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
23700 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
23701 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
23702 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23703 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
23704 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
23705 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
23706 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23707 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
23708 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
23709 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
23710 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
23711 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
23712 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23713 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23714 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
23715 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23716 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
23717 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
23718 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23719 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
23720 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23723 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
23724 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
23725 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
23726 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
23727 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
23728 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
23729 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
23730 even if your DirPort isn't on.
23731 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
23732 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
23733 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
23735 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
23736 multiple controller passwords.
23737 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
23738 router based on the router's purpose.
23739 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
23740 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
23741 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
23742 the approved-routers file.
23745 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
23746 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
23747 well as a few minor bugs.
23750 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
23751 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
23752 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
23754 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
23755 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
23756 rebuild our server descriptor.
23758 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
23759 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
23760 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
23761 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
23762 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
23763 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
23764 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
23765 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
23766 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
23767 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
23769 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
23770 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
23771 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
23772 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
23773 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
23774 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
23775 then be flexible about families.
23778 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
23779 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
23780 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
23784 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
23785 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
23786 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
23787 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
23788 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
23791 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
23792 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
23793 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
23794 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
23795 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
23798 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
23799 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
23801 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
23802 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
23803 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
23804 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
23805 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
23806 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
23807 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23809 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
23810 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
23811 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
23812 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
23815 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
23816 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
23819 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
23820 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
23821 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23824 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
23825 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
23826 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
23827 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
23828 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
23829 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
23830 addresses many more minor issues.
23832 o New directory authorities:
23833 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
23836 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
23837 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
23838 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
23839 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
23841 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
23842 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
23843 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
23844 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
23845 and are reaching it.
23846 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
23847 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
23848 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
23849 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
23850 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
23851 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
23854 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
23855 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
23857 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
23858 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
23859 no longer work for clients.
23860 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
23861 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
23863 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
23864 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
23865 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
23866 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
23867 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
23868 enough directory information to build a circuit.
23869 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
23870 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
23871 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
23872 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
23873 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
23874 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
23876 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
23877 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
23878 requests for all of them.
23879 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
23881 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
23882 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
23883 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
23885 o New requirements:
23886 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
23887 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
23891 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
23892 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
23893 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
23894 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
23895 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
23896 networkstatuses that we already have.
23897 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
23898 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
23899 we start knowing some directory caches.
23900 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
23901 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
23902 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
23903 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
23904 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
23905 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
23906 Good in combination with --hash-password.
23907 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
23908 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
23910 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
23911 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
23912 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
23914 o Minor features (bridges):
23915 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
23916 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
23917 back to trying the bridge directly.
23918 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
23919 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
23921 o Minor features (controller):
23922 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
23923 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
23924 report the value as a "minimum skew."
23927 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
23928 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
23932 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
23933 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
23934 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23935 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
23936 reported by tup and ioerror.
23937 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
23938 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
23940 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
23941 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
23943 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
23944 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
23945 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
23947 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
23948 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23949 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
23950 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23951 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
23952 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23953 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
23955 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
23956 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
23957 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23959 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
23960 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
23961 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
23962 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
23963 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
23966 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
23967 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
23968 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
23969 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
23970 lists for a few hours each day.
23972 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23973 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
23974 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
23975 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
23976 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
23977 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
23978 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
23979 rend_process_relay_cell().
23981 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23982 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
23983 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
23984 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
23985 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
23986 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
23987 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
23988 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
23990 o Major bugfixes (other):
23991 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
23992 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
23993 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
23994 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
23995 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
23996 circuit cannibalization).
23997 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
23998 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
23999 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24000 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24001 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24002 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
24005 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
24006 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
24008 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
24009 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
24010 absent. Resolves bug 467.
24011 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
24012 a way to trigger this remotely.)
24013 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24014 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24015 were reporting the dir port.)
24016 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
24017 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
24018 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
24019 the future. Fixes bug 434.
24020 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
24022 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
24023 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
24024 the onion key from getting rotated.
24025 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
24026 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
24027 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
24028 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
24029 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
24030 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24031 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24032 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24033 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24036 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
24037 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
24038 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
24039 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
24040 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
24041 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
24043 o Major features (directory system):
24044 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
24045 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
24046 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
24047 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
24048 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
24049 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
24050 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
24051 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
24052 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
24053 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
24054 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
24055 Partially implements proposal 122.
24056 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
24057 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
24060 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
24061 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
24062 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
24063 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
24065 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
24066 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
24067 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24068 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24069 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24070 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24071 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
24072 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
24073 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24075 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
24076 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
24078 - Allow certificates to include an address.
24079 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
24080 and download operations.
24081 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
24082 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
24083 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
24084 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
24085 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
24086 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
24088 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
24089 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
24092 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
24093 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
24094 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
24095 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
24097 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
24098 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
24099 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
24101 o Minor features (performance):
24102 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
24103 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
24104 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
24105 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
24106 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
24107 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
24108 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
24111 o Minor features (compilation):
24112 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
24113 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
24115 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
24116 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
24117 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
24118 stick around indefinitely.
24119 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
24121 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
24122 v3 directory authority.
24123 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
24124 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
24126 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
24127 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
24128 "moria on moria:9031."
24129 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
24130 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
24131 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
24132 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
24133 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
24134 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
24135 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
24136 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
24138 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
24139 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
24140 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
24141 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
24142 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
24143 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
24144 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
24145 downloads than for other types.
24147 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
24148 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
24150 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
24151 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
24152 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24154 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24155 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24156 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24157 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
24158 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
24159 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
24160 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
24161 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
24163 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24164 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
24165 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
24166 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
24167 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24168 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
24169 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
24170 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24171 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
24172 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
24173 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
24175 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
24176 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
24179 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24180 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
24181 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
24182 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
24183 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
24184 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
24185 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
24186 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
24187 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
24188 so that they all take the same named flags.
24191 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
24192 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
24193 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
24196 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
24197 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
24198 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
24199 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
24200 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
24201 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
24203 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
24204 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
24205 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
24206 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
24207 annotations along with descriptors.
24208 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
24209 source, and its purpose.
24210 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
24212 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
24213 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
24214 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
24215 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
24218 o Major features (directory authorities):
24219 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
24221 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
24222 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
24223 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
24224 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
24225 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
24226 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
24228 o Major features (v3 directory system):
24229 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
24230 and download the descriptors listed in them.
24231 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
24232 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
24233 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
24235 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24236 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
24237 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
24238 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
24241 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24242 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
24243 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
24244 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
24245 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
24247 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
24248 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
24249 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
24250 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
24251 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
24252 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24254 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
24255 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
24257 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
24258 certificate is requested.
24259 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
24260 certificate requests.
24262 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
24263 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
24264 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
24265 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
24268 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24269 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24270 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24271 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24273 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
24274 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
24276 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
24277 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
24278 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24279 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
24280 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
24281 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
24282 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
24283 downloads more sensible.
24284 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
24285 another when serving certificates.
24287 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24288 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
24289 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
24290 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
24292 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
24293 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24294 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
24296 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
24297 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24299 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24300 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
24301 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
24302 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
24303 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24305 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
24306 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
24307 WARN-severity events.
24308 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
24309 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
24310 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
24312 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
24313 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
24314 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
24316 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
24317 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
24318 circuit cannibalization).
24320 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24321 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
24322 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
24323 new module, networkstatus.c.
24324 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
24325 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
24326 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
24327 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
24328 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
24329 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
24330 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
24331 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
24332 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
24334 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
24336 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
24337 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24340 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
24341 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
24342 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
24343 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
24345 o New directory authorities:
24346 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
24347 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
24349 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24350 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
24351 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24353 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
24354 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
24355 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
24356 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
24357 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24358 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
24359 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
24360 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
24361 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
24362 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
24363 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24365 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24366 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
24367 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
24368 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
24369 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
24370 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
24371 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
24372 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
24373 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
24375 o Minor features (security):
24376 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
24377 address maps to an internal address space.
24378 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
24379 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
24381 o Minor features (guard nodes):
24382 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
24383 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
24384 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
24385 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
24387 o Minor features (speed):
24388 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
24389 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
24390 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
24391 on big-endian hosts.)
24393 o Minor features (controller):
24394 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
24395 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
24396 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
24397 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
24400 o Removed features:
24401 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
24402 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
24403 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
24404 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
24405 implementation of proposal 104.
24406 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
24407 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
24408 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
24409 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
24410 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
24411 patch from Karsten Loesing.
24412 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
24413 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
24416 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
24417 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
24418 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24419 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
24420 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24421 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
24422 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24423 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
24424 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
24425 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24426 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
24427 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
24428 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
24429 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24430 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
24431 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
24432 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
24433 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24434 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
24435 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
24437 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24438 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
24439 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
24441 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
24442 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
24443 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
24444 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
24447 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
24448 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
24449 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
24450 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
24451 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
24454 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
24455 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
24458 o Major bugfixes (security):
24459 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
24460 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
24461 become more of a headache than it's worth.
24463 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
24464 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
24465 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
24467 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
24468 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
24469 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
24470 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
24471 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
24472 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
24474 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
24475 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
24476 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
24477 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
24478 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
24480 o Minor features (controller):
24481 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
24482 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
24483 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
24484 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
24486 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24487 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
24488 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
24489 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
24490 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
24491 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
24492 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
24493 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
24495 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24496 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
24497 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
24498 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
24499 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
24500 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
24501 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
24502 if we ran off the end of the list.
24503 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
24504 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
24505 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
24506 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
24507 every time we change any piece of our config.
24508 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
24509 encourage people using them to stop.
24510 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
24512 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
24513 servers to choose a circuit.
24514 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
24515 unparseable piece of it.
24518 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
24519 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
24520 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
24521 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
24524 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
24525 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
24526 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
24527 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
24528 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
24530 o New directory authorities:
24531 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
24534 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
24535 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
24536 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
24537 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
24539 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
24540 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
24541 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
24543 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
24544 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
24545 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
24546 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
24547 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
24548 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
24550 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
24551 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
24552 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24555 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
24556 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
24557 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
24558 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
24562 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
24563 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
24564 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
24565 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
24567 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
24568 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
24570 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
24571 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
24572 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
24573 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
24574 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
24575 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
24576 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24577 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
24578 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24579 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
24582 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
24583 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
24584 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
24585 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
24586 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
24587 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
24589 o Removed features:
24590 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
24591 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
24592 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
24593 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
24596 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
24597 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
24598 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
24599 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
24600 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
24603 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
24604 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
24605 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
24606 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
24607 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
24608 reported by lodger.
24610 o Minor features (directory servers):
24611 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
24612 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
24614 o Minor features (directory voting):
24615 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
24618 o Minor features (security):
24619 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
24620 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
24621 encourage people using them to stop.
24623 o Minor features (controller):
24624 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
24625 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
24626 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
24627 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
24628 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
24629 cookie authentication file, and config option
24630 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
24632 o Minor features (unit testing):
24633 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
24634 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
24635 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
24636 logging for the unit tests.
24638 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
24639 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
24640 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
24641 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
24642 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
24643 every time we change any piece of our config.
24644 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
24645 the future. Fixes bug 434.
24646 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
24648 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
24649 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
24650 the onion key from getting rotated.
24651 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
24652 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
24653 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
24656 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24657 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
24658 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
24660 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
24661 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
24662 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
24663 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
24666 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
24667 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
24668 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
24669 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
24670 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
24671 TorK, etc. Or worse.
24673 o Major security fixes:
24674 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
24675 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
24678 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
24679 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
24680 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
24681 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
24683 o Major security fixes:
24684 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
24685 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
24687 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
24688 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
24691 o Minor features (performance):
24692 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
24693 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
24694 performance-intensive.
24695 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
24696 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
24697 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
24698 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
24699 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
24700 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
24704 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
24705 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
24706 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
24707 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
24711 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
24712 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
24713 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
24714 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
24715 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
24717 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
24718 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
24719 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
24720 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
24722 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
24723 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
24724 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
24725 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
24726 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
24728 o Major features (experimental):
24729 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
24730 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
24731 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
24732 handling before it's ready for use.
24735 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
24736 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
24737 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
24738 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
24739 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
24740 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
24742 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
24743 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
24744 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
24745 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
24746 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
24748 o Major bugfixes (directory):
24749 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
24750 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
24752 o Minor features (controller):
24753 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
24754 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24755 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
24756 from Robert Hogan.)
24757 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
24758 from Robert Hogan.)
24759 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
24760 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
24762 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
24763 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
24764 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
24765 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
24766 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24767 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
24768 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
24771 o Minor features (misc):
24772 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
24774 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
24775 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
24776 the authority identity key.
24777 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
24779 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
24780 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
24781 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
24784 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
24785 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
24786 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
24787 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
24788 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
24789 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
24790 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
24791 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
24793 o Performance improvements:
24794 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
24796 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
24797 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
24800 o Deprecated and removed features:
24801 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
24802 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
24803 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
24804 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
24806 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
24807 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
24808 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
24809 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
24810 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
24811 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
24812 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
24813 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
24814 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
24817 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
24818 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
24819 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
24820 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
24821 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
24823 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
24824 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
24827 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24828 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
24829 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
24830 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
24831 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
24832 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
24833 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
24834 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
24835 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
24838 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
24839 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
24840 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
24841 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
24843 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
24844 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
24846 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24847 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
24848 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
24849 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
24850 routerlist while inserting a new router.
24851 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
24852 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
24854 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
24855 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
24856 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
24858 o Major bugfixes (security):
24859 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
24861 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
24862 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
24863 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
24864 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
24865 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
24866 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
24867 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
24868 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
24869 guard list unless we need to.
24871 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
24872 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
24873 don't get overused as guards.
24875 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
24876 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
24877 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
24878 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
24879 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
24881 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24882 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
24883 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
24886 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24887 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24888 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
24889 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
24890 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
24891 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
24892 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
24893 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
24896 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
24897 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
24898 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
24899 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
24901 o Minor features (directory):
24902 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
24903 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
24904 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
24905 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
24907 o Minor build issues:
24908 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
24909 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
24910 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
24911 in the tarball, not as "x".
24914 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
24915 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
24916 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
24917 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
24918 forward on a lot of fronts.
24920 o Major features, server usability:
24921 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
24922 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
24923 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
24924 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
24926 o Major features, client usability:
24927 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
24928 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
24929 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
24930 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
24931 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
24932 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
24933 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
24934 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
24936 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
24937 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
24938 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
24939 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
24940 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
24941 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
24943 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
24944 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
24945 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
24947 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
24948 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
24949 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
24950 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
24951 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
24953 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
24954 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
24955 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
24956 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
24958 o Major features, other:
24959 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
24960 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
24961 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
24962 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
24963 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
24966 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
24967 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
24968 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
24971 o Minor fixes (resource management):
24972 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
24973 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
24974 our allocated connection limit.
24975 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
24976 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
24977 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
24978 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
24979 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
24981 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
24982 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
24983 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
24985 o Minor features (build):
24986 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
24987 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
24988 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
24989 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
24991 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
24992 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
24993 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
24994 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
24995 Use this version consistently in log messages.
24997 o Minor features (logging):
24998 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
24999 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25000 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25001 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25002 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25005 o Minor features (directory system):
25006 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
25007 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
25008 not to serve V2 directory information.
25009 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25010 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
25011 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
25013 o Minor features (controller):
25014 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25015 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25017 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25018 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25019 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25020 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25021 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25022 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
25024 o Minor features (hidden services):
25025 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
25026 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
25027 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
25028 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
25030 o Minor features (other):
25032 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25033 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25034 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25035 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25036 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25037 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25038 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25039 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25040 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25041 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
25042 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
25043 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
25044 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
25046 o Removed features:
25047 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
25048 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
25049 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
25050 back an error and close the connection.
25051 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25052 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
25055 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
25056 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25057 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25058 makes the log messages nicer.
25059 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25060 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25061 partial results on small file reads.
25063 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25064 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
25065 more often than they are allowed to appear.
25066 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25067 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25069 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
25070 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25071 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25072 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25074 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25075 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25076 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25077 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25078 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25079 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
25080 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
25081 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25082 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
25083 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
25084 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
25086 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
25087 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
25088 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
25090 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
25091 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
25092 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
25093 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
25095 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25096 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25097 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25099 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25100 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25103 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25104 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
25105 implicit in other procedure arguments.
25106 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25107 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25108 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25109 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
25110 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
25111 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
25112 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
25113 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
25114 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
25117 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
25118 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
25119 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
25120 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
25122 o Directory authority changes:
25123 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
25124 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
25125 or use hidden services.
25127 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25128 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
25129 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
25130 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
25131 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
25132 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
25133 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
25134 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
25135 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
25138 o Major bugfixes (security):
25139 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
25140 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
25141 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
25143 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
25144 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
25145 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
25146 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
25147 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
25148 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
25149 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
25150 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
25151 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
25152 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
25155 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
25156 purpose=controller.
25157 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
25158 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
25160 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
25161 having a hard time downloading.
25162 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25163 partial results on small file reads.
25164 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
25165 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
25166 the gaps in the store get very large.
25169 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
25170 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
25172 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
25173 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
25176 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
25177 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
25178 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
25179 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
25180 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
25181 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
25183 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
25184 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
25185 free speech on the Internet.
25188 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
25189 get one we don't recognize.
25190 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
25191 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
25194 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
25196 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
25197 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
25198 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
25199 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
25202 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
25203 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
25206 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
25207 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
25208 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
25209 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
25210 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
25211 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
25212 ask for GUARDS too.
25215 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
25216 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
25217 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
25218 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
25219 on Win98 and friends again.
25221 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25222 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
25223 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
25226 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
25227 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
25228 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
25229 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
25230 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
25231 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
25232 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
25233 and maybe also bug 397.)
25235 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25236 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
25237 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
25239 o Minor bugfixes (server):
25240 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
25243 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25244 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
25245 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
25246 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
25247 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
25249 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25250 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
25251 load on authorities.
25253 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25254 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
25255 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
25256 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
25258 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
25260 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
25261 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
25262 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
25263 the last of bug 326.)
25264 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
25265 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
25269 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
25270 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25271 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
25272 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
25273 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
25274 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
25275 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
25277 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
25278 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
25280 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25281 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
25282 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
25284 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
25285 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
25286 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
25288 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25289 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
25290 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
25291 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
25293 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
25294 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
25296 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
25297 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
25298 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
25301 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25302 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
25303 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
25304 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
25305 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
25306 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
25307 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
25308 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
25309 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
25310 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
25311 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
25312 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
25313 other than file-not-found.
25314 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
25315 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
25316 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
25317 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
25318 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
25319 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
25320 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
25321 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
25322 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
25323 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
25324 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
25325 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
25326 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
25327 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
25328 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
25330 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
25332 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
25333 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
25335 o Minor features (controller):
25336 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
25337 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
25338 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
25340 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
25341 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25342 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
25343 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
25344 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
25345 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
25346 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
25347 connected or resolved cell.
25349 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25350 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
25351 some profiles, but not others.)
25352 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
25353 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
25354 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
25357 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
25359 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
25360 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
25361 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
25362 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
25363 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
25364 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
25365 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
25366 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
25367 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
25368 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
25369 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
25370 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
25371 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
25372 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
25373 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
25375 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
25378 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
25379 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
25380 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
25381 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
25382 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
25383 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
25384 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
25386 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
25387 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
25388 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
25389 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
25390 buckets go absurdly negative.
25391 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
25392 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
25395 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
25396 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
25397 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
25398 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
25399 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
25400 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
25401 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
25402 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
25405 o Major bugfixes (other):
25406 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
25407 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
25408 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
25409 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
25411 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
25413 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
25414 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
25416 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
25417 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
25418 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
25419 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
25420 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
25421 to wait for 0.2.0.)
25423 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
25424 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
25425 possible memory-stomping bugs.
25426 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
25427 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
25429 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
25430 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
25431 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
25432 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
25433 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
25434 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
25436 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25437 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
25438 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
25439 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
25441 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
25442 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
25443 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
25444 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
25445 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
25446 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
25447 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
25448 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
25449 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
25450 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
25451 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
25452 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
25453 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
25455 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
25456 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
25457 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
25458 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
25459 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
25460 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
25461 to the resulting address.
25464 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
25465 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
25466 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
25467 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
25470 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
25471 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
25473 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
25474 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
25475 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
25476 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
25477 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
25478 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
25479 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
25480 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
25481 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
25482 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
25483 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
25484 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
25485 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
25486 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
25487 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
25488 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
25489 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
25492 o Minor features (controller):
25493 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
25494 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
25495 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
25496 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
25497 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
25498 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
25499 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
25503 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
25505 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
25506 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
25507 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
25508 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
25509 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
25510 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
25513 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
25514 weren't planning to resolve.
25515 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
25516 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
25517 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
25518 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
25519 the controller from learning about current events.
25521 o Minor features (more controller status events):
25522 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
25523 learn when our address changes.
25524 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
25525 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
25526 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
25527 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
25529 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
25530 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
25531 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
25532 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
25533 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
25534 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
25535 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
25536 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
25537 are accepted by a directory.
25538 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
25539 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
25540 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
25541 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
25542 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
25544 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
25545 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
25546 about changes to DNS server status.
25548 o Minor features (directory):
25549 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
25550 too much load to the exit nodes.
25553 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
25555 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
25556 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
25557 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
25558 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
25559 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
25561 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
25562 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
25563 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
25565 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
25566 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
25567 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
25568 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
25569 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
25570 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
25571 config options if you like.
25573 o Minor features (config and docs):
25574 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
25575 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
25576 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25577 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
25578 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
25580 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
25581 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
25582 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
25583 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
25584 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
25586 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
25587 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
25588 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
25589 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
25590 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
25591 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
25592 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
25593 documentation: "make check-docs".
25594 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
25595 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
25597 o Minor features (DNS):
25598 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
25599 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
25600 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
25601 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
25602 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
25603 our tests for DNS hijacking.
25605 o Minor features (directory):
25606 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
25607 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
25608 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
25609 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
25610 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
25611 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
25612 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
25613 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
25614 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
25615 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
25616 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
25617 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
25618 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
25619 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
25620 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
25621 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
25622 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
25623 for the thing we're trying to download.
25624 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
25625 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
25626 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
25628 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
25629 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
25630 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
25633 o Minor features (controller):
25634 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
25635 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
25637 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
25638 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
25639 entry guard status as it changes.
25641 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
25642 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
25643 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
25644 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
25645 to set log options.
25646 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
25647 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
25648 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
25649 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
25652 o Major bugfixes (security):
25653 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
25654 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
25655 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
25656 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
25658 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
25659 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
25660 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
25661 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
25662 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
25664 o Major bugfixes (other):
25665 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
25666 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
25667 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
25668 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
25670 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
25671 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
25672 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
25673 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
25674 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
25675 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
25679 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
25680 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
25681 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
25682 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
25683 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
25685 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
25686 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
25688 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
25689 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
25690 family lists conveniently.
25691 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
25692 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
25693 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
25695 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
25696 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
25698 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
25699 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
25700 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
25701 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
25702 if their identity keys are as expected.
25703 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
25704 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
25705 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
25707 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25708 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
25709 reported by Mike Perry.
25710 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
25711 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
25712 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
25713 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
25716 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
25717 o Security bugfixes:
25718 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
25719 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
25720 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
25721 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
25725 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
25726 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
25727 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
25730 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
25732 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
25733 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
25734 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
25737 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
25738 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
25739 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
25740 watching for STREAM events.
25741 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
25742 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
25743 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
25744 operations, for profiling.
25747 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
25748 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
25749 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
25750 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
25751 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
25752 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
25754 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
25758 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
25759 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
25760 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
25761 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
25762 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
25764 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
25765 correctly in the Windows installer.
25766 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
25767 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
25768 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
25769 MIPSpro C compiler.
25770 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
25771 when we're running as a client.
25774 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
25776 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
25777 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
25778 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25779 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
25780 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
25781 its circuits on demand.
25782 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
25783 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
25784 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
25785 connections more stable on average.
25786 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
25787 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
25788 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
25790 o Security bugfixes:
25791 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
25792 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
25795 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
25797 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
25798 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
25799 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
25800 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
25801 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
25802 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
25803 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
25804 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
25807 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
25809 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
25810 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
25811 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
25812 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
25813 routers for even longer.
25814 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
25815 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
25816 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
25817 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
25818 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
25819 caching HTTP proxies.
25820 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
25823 o Minor features, controller:
25824 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
25825 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
25826 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
25827 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
25829 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
25830 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
25831 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
25832 working much like those for circuit events.
25833 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
25834 about the current status of a router.
25835 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
25836 a router's status has changed.
25837 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
25838 can tell which events and features are supported.
25839 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
25840 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
25842 o Security bugfixes:
25843 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
25844 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
25847 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
25848 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
25849 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
25850 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
25851 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
25852 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
25853 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
25854 long nicknames where appropriate.
25855 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
25856 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
25857 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
25858 chews through many circuits before giving up.
25859 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
25860 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
25861 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
25862 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
25863 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
25864 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
25866 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
25867 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
25868 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
25870 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
25871 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
25872 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
25873 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
25874 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
25875 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
25876 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
25877 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
25878 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
25879 (reported by fookoowa).
25880 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
25881 and reported by some Centos users.
25882 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
25883 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
25884 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
25885 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
25886 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
25887 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
25888 before we check for libevent.
25891 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
25893 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
25894 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
25895 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
25896 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
25897 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
25898 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
25899 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
25900 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
25901 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
25902 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
25903 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
25904 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
25905 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
25906 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
25907 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
25908 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
25909 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
25910 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
25911 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
25912 lets you turn it off.
25913 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
25914 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
25915 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
25916 us into the directory more quickly.
25918 o New/improved config options:
25919 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
25920 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
25921 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
25922 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
25923 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
25924 all the machines on the same subnet.
25925 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
25926 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
25927 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
25928 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
25929 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
25930 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
25931 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
25932 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
25933 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
25934 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
25936 o Minor features, controller:
25937 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
25938 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
25939 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
25940 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
25941 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
25942 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
25943 for more information.
25944 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
25945 best guess to the user.
25946 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
25947 descriptor has changed.
25948 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
25950 o Minor features, other:
25951 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
25952 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
25953 useful to the network.
25954 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
25955 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
25956 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
25957 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
25958 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
25959 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
25960 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
25961 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
25962 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
25963 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
25964 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
25965 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
25966 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
25967 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
25968 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
25970 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
25971 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
25972 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
25973 could return an unnamed server instead.
25974 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
25975 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
25976 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
25977 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
25978 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
25979 a more attractive target for compromise.)
25980 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
25981 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
25982 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
25984 o Major bugfixes, other:
25985 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
25986 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
25987 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
25988 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
25989 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
25990 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
25991 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
25992 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
25993 its circuits on demand.
25994 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
25995 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
25996 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
25997 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
25999 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
26000 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26001 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26002 we don't recognize.
26003 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26005 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
26006 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
26007 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26008 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
26009 "extendcircuit" request.
26010 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26011 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26012 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
26014 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
26015 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
26016 instead of "X resolved to X".
26017 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
26018 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26019 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26020 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
26021 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26022 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26023 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26024 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
26025 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
26027 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
26028 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
26029 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
26030 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
26031 result more than once.
26032 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26033 non-versioning dirservers.
26034 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
26035 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
26037 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
26038 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
26039 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26040 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26041 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26042 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26043 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
26044 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
26045 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26047 o Packaging, features:
26048 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
26049 now universal binaries.
26050 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
26051 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
26052 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
26054 o Packaging, bugfixes:
26055 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
26056 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
26057 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
26058 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
26060 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
26061 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
26062 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
26065 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
26066 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
26067 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
26071 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26073 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26074 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26075 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26076 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26077 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26078 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26079 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26080 it can't resolve its hostname.
26083 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26084 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26085 "extendcircuit" request.
26086 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26087 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26088 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26089 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26091 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26092 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26093 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26095 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26096 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26097 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26098 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26099 we don't recognize.
26102 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
26104 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
26105 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
26106 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
26107 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
26108 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
26109 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
26110 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
26111 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26112 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
26113 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26114 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26115 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
26116 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
26117 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
26118 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
26119 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
26120 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
26121 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
26122 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
26123 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
26124 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26125 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
26126 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26127 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26130 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26131 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26132 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26133 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26134 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
26135 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
26136 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
26137 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
26138 recommendation system saner.)
26139 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
26141 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
26142 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26143 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
26144 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
26145 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26146 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26147 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26148 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
26149 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26150 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
26151 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
26152 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
26153 your ORPort is set.
26154 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
26155 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26156 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26157 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26158 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26159 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26160 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26161 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26162 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26163 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
26164 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
26165 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
26167 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26168 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26169 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26170 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26171 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
26172 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
26175 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26176 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26177 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
26178 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
26179 our DirPort now, etc.
26180 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26181 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
26182 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
26183 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
26184 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
26185 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26186 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26188 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
26189 whether the config options are bad or good.
26190 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
26191 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
26192 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
26193 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
26194 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
26195 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
26196 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
26197 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
26200 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
26201 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
26202 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26203 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26204 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26205 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26206 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
26207 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
26208 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
26209 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26210 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
26211 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
26212 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26213 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26214 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26215 of it), is not therefore "up".
26216 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26217 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26218 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26219 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26220 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26221 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26224 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26226 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26227 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26228 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26229 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26230 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26231 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26232 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26233 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26234 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26237 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26238 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26239 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26240 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26241 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26243 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26244 own server descriptor yet.
26247 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26249 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26250 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26251 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26252 make sure to test via one of these.
26253 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26254 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26255 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26256 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26257 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26259 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26260 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26261 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26264 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26265 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26266 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26267 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26268 directory authority.
26269 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26270 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26271 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26272 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26275 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26276 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26277 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26279 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26280 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26281 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26282 current guards when picking a new guard.
26283 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
26284 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
26285 when we had more than one pending.
26286 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
26287 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
26288 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
26289 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
26290 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
26291 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
26292 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
26293 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
26294 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
26295 debug the reachability problems better.
26297 o Log / documentation fixes:
26298 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
26299 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
26300 about protocol violations by others.
26301 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
26302 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
26303 about what happened to our old torrc.
26306 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
26308 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
26310 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
26311 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
26312 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
26313 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
26316 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
26318 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
26319 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
26320 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
26321 old ORPort and receive connections.
26322 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
26324 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
26325 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
26326 and network-statuses.
26327 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
26328 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
26329 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
26330 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
26332 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
26335 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
26336 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
26337 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
26340 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
26342 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
26343 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
26344 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
26345 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
26346 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
26349 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
26350 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
26352 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
26353 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
26354 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
26355 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
26356 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
26357 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
26358 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
26359 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
26360 rather than not sending anything back at all.
26361 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
26362 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
26363 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
26364 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
26365 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
26366 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
26367 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
26368 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
26369 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
26370 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
26371 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
26372 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
26373 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
26374 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
26375 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
26376 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
26377 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
26378 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
26379 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
26380 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
26381 default ulimit -n is 1024.
26384 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
26385 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
26386 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
26387 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
26390 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
26392 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
26393 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
26394 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
26395 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
26396 entry guards running these flawed versions.
26397 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
26398 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
26399 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
26400 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
26401 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
26404 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
26405 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
26407 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
26408 and it is confusing some users.
26409 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
26410 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
26411 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
26412 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
26413 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
26416 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
26418 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
26419 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
26420 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
26421 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
26422 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
26423 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
26424 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
26425 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
26426 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
26427 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
26428 dirport is set for now.
26430 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
26431 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
26432 unattached before we fail it?
26433 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
26434 at least this many seconds ago.
26435 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
26436 at least this many seconds ago.
26439 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
26440 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
26441 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
26442 or resolve-wait stream.
26443 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
26444 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
26445 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
26446 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
26447 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
26448 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
26449 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
26450 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
26452 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
26453 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
26454 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
26455 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
26456 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
26457 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
26458 given as hex digests.
26459 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
26460 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
26461 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
26462 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
26463 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
26464 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
26465 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
26466 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
26469 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26470 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
26471 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
26472 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
26473 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
26474 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
26475 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
26476 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
26477 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
26478 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
26479 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
26482 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
26483 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
26484 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
26485 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
26486 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
26487 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
26488 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
26491 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
26492 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
26493 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
26494 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
26495 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
26496 misreading their logs.
26497 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
26498 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
26499 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
26500 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
26501 valid router descriptors.
26502 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
26503 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
26504 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
26505 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
26506 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
26507 silently resetting it to its default.
26508 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
26510 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
26513 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
26514 use clean circuits.
26515 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
26516 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
26517 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
26518 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
26519 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
26521 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
26522 because older Tors do not understand it.
26523 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
26527 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
26528 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
26529 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
26530 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
26531 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
26532 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
26533 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
26534 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
26535 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
26536 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
26537 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
26539 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
26540 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
26541 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
26542 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
26544 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
26545 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
26548 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
26549 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
26550 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
26551 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
26552 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
26553 without getting overloaded.
26554 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
26556 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
26557 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
26558 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
26559 be forward-compatible.
26560 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
26561 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
26562 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
26563 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
26565 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
26566 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
26567 and OR conns to port 443.
26568 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
26569 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
26571 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
26572 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
26573 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
26574 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
26575 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
26576 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
26577 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
26580 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
26581 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26582 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
26583 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
26585 o Other important bugfixes:
26586 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
26587 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
26588 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
26589 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
26591 o Backported features:
26592 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
26593 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
26594 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
26595 without getting overloaded.
26596 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
26597 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
26598 503's whenever they feel busy.
26599 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
26600 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
26601 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
26602 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
26603 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
26606 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
26607 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
26608 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
26609 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
26610 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
26611 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
26612 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
26613 know if the crashes continue.
26614 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
26615 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
26616 seg faults in at least some cases.)
26617 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
26618 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
26619 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
26622 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
26623 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
26624 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
26625 try to be a bit more fair.
26626 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
26627 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
26628 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
26629 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
26630 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
26631 bug that let it go negative.
26632 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
26633 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
26634 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
26635 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
26636 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
26637 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
26638 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
26639 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
26640 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
26641 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
26642 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
26645 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
26647 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
26648 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
26649 service descriptors.
26652 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
26653 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
26654 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
26655 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
26657 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
26658 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
26659 versions *are* still recommended.
26660 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
26661 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
26662 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
26663 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
26664 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
26665 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
26666 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
26667 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
26669 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
26670 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
26671 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
26672 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
26673 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
26674 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
26675 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
26676 on it. Not used by clients yet.
26677 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
26678 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
26679 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
26680 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
26681 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
26682 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
26683 established a circuit.
26684 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
26685 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
26686 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
26687 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
26690 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
26691 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
26692 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
26693 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
26694 quickly enough. Oops.
26695 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
26697 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26698 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
26701 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
26702 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
26703 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
26704 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
26705 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
26706 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
26707 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
26708 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
26709 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
26710 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
26711 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
26712 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
26713 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
26714 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26715 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
26716 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
26717 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
26720 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
26721 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
26722 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
26723 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
26724 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
26725 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
26726 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
26727 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
26728 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
26729 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
26730 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
26731 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
26732 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
26733 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
26734 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
26735 connections more reliable.
26738 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
26739 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
26740 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
26741 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
26742 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
26743 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
26744 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
26745 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
26746 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
26747 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
26748 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
26749 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
26750 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
26751 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
26755 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
26756 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
26757 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
26758 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
26759 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
26760 need to be uint64_t's.
26761 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
26762 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
26763 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
26765 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
26767 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
26768 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
26769 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
26770 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
26771 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
26772 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
26773 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
26775 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
26776 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
26777 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
26778 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
26779 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
26780 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
26781 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
26782 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
26783 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
26784 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
26785 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
26786 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
26787 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
26790 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
26791 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
26792 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
26793 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
26794 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
26795 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
26796 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
26798 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
26799 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
26800 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
26801 can answer v2 directory requests too.
26802 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
26803 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
26804 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
26805 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
26807 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
26808 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
26809 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
26810 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
26811 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
26812 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
26813 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
26814 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
26815 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
26816 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
26817 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
26818 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
26819 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
26820 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
26821 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
26823 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
26824 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
26827 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
26828 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26829 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
26830 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
26831 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
26832 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
26833 too -- so detect and avoid this.
26834 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
26836 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
26837 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
26838 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
26839 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
26840 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
26841 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
26842 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
26843 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
26844 rendezvous circuits.
26845 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
26847 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26848 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
26849 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
26850 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
26851 advertising it because of hibernation.
26852 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
26853 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
26854 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
26855 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
26856 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
26857 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
26858 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
26859 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
26860 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
26861 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
26862 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
26863 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
26864 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
26865 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
26868 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
26869 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26870 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
26871 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
26872 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
26873 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
26874 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
26875 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
26876 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
26877 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
26878 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
26879 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
26880 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
26881 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
26882 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
26883 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
26884 connections once a week.
26885 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
26886 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
26887 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
26888 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
26889 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
26890 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
26892 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
26893 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
26894 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
26896 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26897 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
26898 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26899 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26900 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26901 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
26902 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
26903 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26904 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26905 firewall options forbid.
26906 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26907 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26908 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26909 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26910 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26911 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26912 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26913 aids some statistical attacks.
26914 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26915 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26916 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26917 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26919 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
26920 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
26921 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
26922 server descriptor sometimes.
26923 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
26924 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
26925 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
26926 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
26927 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
26928 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
26929 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
26930 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
26932 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
26933 case the controller wants to change that too.
26934 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
26935 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
26936 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
26937 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
26939 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
26940 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
26941 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
26943 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
26944 descriptors that they know they will reject.
26946 o Features and updates:
26947 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
26948 significantly faster.
26949 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
26950 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
26951 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
26952 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
26953 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
26954 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
26955 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
26956 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
26957 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
26958 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
26959 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
26960 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
26961 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
26962 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
26963 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
26964 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
26965 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
26966 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
26967 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
26968 as authoritative dirserver.
26969 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
26970 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
26971 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
26974 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
26975 o Usability improvements:
26976 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
26977 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
26979 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
26980 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
26981 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
26983 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
26984 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
26985 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
26986 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
26987 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
26988 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
26989 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
26990 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
26991 memory leaks better.
26992 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
26993 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
26994 their operators to pay close attention.
26995 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
26996 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
26998 o Performance improvements:
26999 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
27000 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27001 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27002 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27003 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
27004 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
27005 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
27006 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
27007 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27008 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27009 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27010 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27011 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27012 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27013 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27014 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27015 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27017 o Security improvements:
27018 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
27019 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
27020 fingerprint of server.
27021 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
27022 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
27023 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
27025 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27026 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
27027 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
27028 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
27029 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27030 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27031 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27032 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27033 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27034 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27035 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
27036 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
27037 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
27038 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27039 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27040 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27041 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27042 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27043 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27044 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27045 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27047 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
27048 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
27049 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
27051 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
27052 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
27054 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
27055 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
27056 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
27057 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
27058 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
27059 of the controller protocol.
27060 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
27061 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
27062 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
27065 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
27066 o New features (major):
27067 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
27068 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
27069 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27070 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
27071 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27072 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27073 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
27074 we're using a default DirPort.
27075 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
27077 o New features (minor):
27078 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
27079 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
27080 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27081 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27082 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
27083 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
27084 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27085 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
27086 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
27087 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
27088 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
27089 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
27090 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27091 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
27092 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27093 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27094 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
27095 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
27096 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
27098 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
27099 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
27100 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
27101 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
27102 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
27103 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27104 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27105 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27107 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
27108 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
27109 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
27110 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
27111 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
27112 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
27113 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
27114 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
27115 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
27116 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
27118 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
27119 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27120 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27121 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27122 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27124 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
27125 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27126 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27128 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27129 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
27131 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
27132 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27133 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27134 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27135 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
27136 don't warn twice about the same name.
27137 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27138 if we've not heard of the server.
27139 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
27140 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
27143 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
27144 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27145 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
27146 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27147 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27148 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27149 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27150 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
27151 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
27152 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27153 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27154 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
27155 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
27156 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
27157 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
27160 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
27161 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
27162 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
27163 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
27164 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
27166 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
27167 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
27168 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27169 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27170 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27171 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27175 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
27176 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
27177 nickname) is reachable by you.
27178 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
27181 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
27182 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27183 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27184 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27185 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
27186 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27187 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27188 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27189 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27190 we fail to connect).
27191 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
27192 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27193 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27194 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27196 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27197 it was self-testing that told us so.
27200 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
27201 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
27202 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
27203 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
27204 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
27205 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
27206 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
27207 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27208 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
27209 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
27210 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
27211 exit policy using him for any exits.
27212 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
27215 o New controller features/fixes:
27216 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
27217 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27218 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27219 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27220 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
27221 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
27222 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
27223 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
27224 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
27226 o Start on the new directory design:
27227 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
27228 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
27230 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
27231 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
27232 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
27233 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
27235 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
27236 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
27237 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27238 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27239 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
27240 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27241 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27242 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27245 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
27246 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
27247 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27248 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27249 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27250 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27251 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27252 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27253 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27254 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27256 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
27257 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27258 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27259 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27260 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27261 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27262 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27263 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27264 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27266 o Config option changes:
27267 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
27268 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
27269 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
27270 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27271 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27272 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27274 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
27275 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
27276 people have started using them for spam too.
27277 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27278 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27279 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27280 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27281 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27282 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27283 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27284 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
27285 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27286 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27287 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27288 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27289 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27290 services faster on the service end.
27291 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
27292 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
27293 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
27294 it a fair shake next time we try.
27295 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
27296 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
27297 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
27298 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
27299 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
27300 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27301 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27302 able to discover them.
27303 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27304 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27305 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
27306 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
27307 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
27308 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
27309 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
27310 testing for reachability.
27311 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
27312 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
27314 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
27316 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27317 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27320 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
27321 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
27323 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27324 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27325 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27326 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
27329 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
27330 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27331 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
27333 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
27334 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
27337 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
27338 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
27341 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27342 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27343 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
27344 options, getinfo keys.
27347 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
27348 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27349 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
27350 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
27351 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
27352 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
27353 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
27355 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
27356 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
27360 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
27361 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
27362 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
27364 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
27366 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
27367 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
27368 circuit events and we go offline.
27369 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
27370 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
27371 you don't have enough intro points already.
27373 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
27374 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27375 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27376 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
27377 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
27378 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
27379 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
27380 enabled by default yet.
27382 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
27383 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
27384 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
27385 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
27386 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
27389 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
27390 o New directory servers:
27391 - tor26 has changed IP address.
27393 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27394 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
27395 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
27396 pthreads libraries.
27397 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
27398 claims its dirport is 0.
27399 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
27400 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
27404 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
27405 o New directory servers:
27406 - tor26 has changed IP address.
27408 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
27409 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
27411 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
27412 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27413 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27414 ports that have changed.
27415 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
27417 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
27418 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27419 Windows-style errno back.
27420 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
27422 want to make it an NT service.
27423 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
27424 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
27425 name, give the full name in our response.
27426 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27427 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27428 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27429 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
27430 pthreads libraries.
27432 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
27433 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
27437 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
27438 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
27439 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
27440 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27441 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27444 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
27445 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27446 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
27447 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
27448 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
27449 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
27450 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
27451 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
27454 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
27456 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
27457 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
27458 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
27459 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27460 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
27461 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
27463 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27464 temporarily unreachable.
27465 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27469 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27470 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
27471 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
27472 our protocol works.
27473 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
27477 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
27478 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
27479 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27480 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27481 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27485 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
27486 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
27487 libevent before 1.1a.
27490 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
27492 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
27493 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
27494 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
27495 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
27496 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
27498 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
27499 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
27500 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
27501 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
27502 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
27503 of CPU time plus memory.
27504 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
27505 normal web requests.
27506 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
27507 tor_lookup_hostname().
27508 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
27509 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
27510 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
27511 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
27512 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
27513 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
27515 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
27516 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
27517 HttpProxyAuthenticator
27518 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
27519 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
27520 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
27522 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
27523 the user asks you to.
27524 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
27525 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
27526 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
27527 their descriptors are being rejected.
27528 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
27532 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
27534 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
27535 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
27536 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
27538 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
27540 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
27542 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
27543 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
27544 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
27545 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
27546 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
27547 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
27548 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
27549 keys) from the exit server's process.
27550 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
27551 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
27552 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
27553 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
27554 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
27555 point at your Tor server.
27556 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
27557 you're not sending a socks reply back.
27560 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
27561 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
27562 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
27563 to make it easier to write controllers.
27566 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
27568 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
27569 installing on Tiger.
27570 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
27571 complain during installation.
27572 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
27573 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
27574 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
27575 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
27576 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
27577 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
27579 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
27580 something more reasonable when first installing.
27581 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
27584 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
27586 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
27587 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
27589 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
27590 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
27591 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
27592 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
27593 when using the default exit policy.
27594 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
27595 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
27596 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
27597 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
27598 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
27599 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
27600 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
27601 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
27602 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
27603 we fetched a new directory.
27604 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
27605 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
27608 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
27609 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
27610 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
27611 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
27612 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
27613 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
27614 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
27615 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
27617 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
27618 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
27619 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
27620 save memory on systems that need to fork.
27621 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
27622 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
27623 is valid without actually launching Tor.
27624 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
27625 rather than just rejecting it.
27628 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
27630 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
27631 we didn't like its cert.
27633 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
27634 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
27635 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
27636 on patch from Adam Langley.
27637 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
27638 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
27639 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
27640 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
27642 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
27643 directory every time you regenerate it.
27644 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
27645 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
27648 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
27649 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27650 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27651 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
27652 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
27655 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
27657 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27658 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
27659 TLS errors better in other situations too.
27660 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
27661 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
27662 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
27663 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
27664 and don't log when you are.
27665 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
27666 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
27668 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
27669 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
27670 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
27671 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
27672 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
27675 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
27676 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
27677 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
27678 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
27679 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
27680 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
27681 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
27682 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27683 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27684 nickname+key are allowed.
27685 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27686 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27687 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27688 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27689 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27690 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
27691 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
27692 have quite wrong clocks).
27693 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
27694 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
27695 - Efficiency improvements:
27696 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
27697 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
27698 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
27699 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
27700 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
27701 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
27702 lowercase and be done with it.
27703 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
27704 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
27705 to abandon partially built circuits.
27706 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
27707 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
27709 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
27711 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
27712 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
27713 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
27714 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
27716 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
27717 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
27719 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
27720 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
27721 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
27722 obeying the exit policy internally.
27723 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
27724 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
27726 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
27727 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
27728 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
27729 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
27731 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
27732 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
27733 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
27734 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
27735 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
27737 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
27738 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
27739 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
27740 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
27741 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
27742 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
27743 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
27744 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
27745 descriptors we just dropped.
27746 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
27747 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
27748 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
27749 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
27750 artificially capped at 500kB.
27753 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
27754 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27755 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
27756 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
27757 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
27758 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
27759 busy for more than 100 seconds.
27762 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
27763 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
27764 - Fixes on reachability detection:
27765 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
27766 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
27767 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
27768 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27769 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27770 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
27771 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
27772 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
27773 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
27774 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
27775 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
27776 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
27777 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
27778 server not already connected to them.
27779 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
27780 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
27781 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
27783 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
27785 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
27786 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
27787 are in a different state than they actually are.
27788 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
27789 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
27790 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
27792 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
27793 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
27794 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
27796 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
27797 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
27798 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
27799 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
27800 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
27801 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
27802 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
27804 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
27805 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
27806 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
27807 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
27810 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
27811 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27812 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
27813 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
27814 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
27815 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
27816 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
27817 creating actual system users.
27818 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
27819 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
27823 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
27825 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
27826 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
27827 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
27828 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
27829 hidden services better.
27830 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
27832 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
27833 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
27834 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
27835 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
27836 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
27837 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
27838 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
27839 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
27840 patch by Matt Edman).
27841 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
27842 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
27843 required exit node for certain sites.
27844 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
27845 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
27846 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
27847 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
27848 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27849 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
27850 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
27851 rather than just "success" or "failure".
27852 - A more sane version numbering system. See
27853 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
27854 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
27855 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
27857 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
27858 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
27859 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
27860 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
27861 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
27862 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
27863 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
27865 o Robustness/stability fixes:
27866 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
27867 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
27868 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
27870 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
27871 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
27872 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
27874 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
27875 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
27876 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
27878 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
27879 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
27880 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
27881 that will want high uptime circuits.
27882 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
27883 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
27884 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
27885 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
27886 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
27887 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
27888 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
27889 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
27890 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
27891 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
27892 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
27893 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
27894 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27895 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27896 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27897 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27898 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27899 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27900 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27901 when we try to launch one.
27902 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
27903 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
27904 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
27905 "ShutdownWaitLength".
27906 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27907 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27908 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27909 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
27910 and to take errno into account where possible.
27913 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
27914 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
27915 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27916 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27917 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
27918 file more reasonable.
27919 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
27920 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
27921 addresses -- it won't.
27922 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27923 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27924 for google.com" problem.
27925 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
27926 so it's not just "unknown platform".
27927 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
27928 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
27929 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27930 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27932 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27933 they could use instead.
27934 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
27935 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
27936 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
27937 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
27938 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27939 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27940 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27941 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27942 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27944 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27948 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27949 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27951 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27952 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27953 private-IP addresses.
27954 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27955 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27957 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27958 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
27959 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27960 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27961 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27962 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27963 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27965 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27966 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27967 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27968 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27969 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27970 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27971 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
27972 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27974 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27976 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27977 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27978 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27979 whether the server is hibernating.
27982 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27983 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27984 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27985 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27986 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27987 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27988 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27989 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27990 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27991 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27992 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27993 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27994 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27995 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27996 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27998 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27999 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28000 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28001 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28002 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28003 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28004 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28005 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28006 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28007 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28008 existing torrc files.
28009 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28012 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28013 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28014 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28015 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28016 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28017 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28018 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28019 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28020 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28021 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28022 file descriptors available.
28023 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28024 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28025 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28028 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28029 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28030 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28031 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28033 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28034 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28035 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28036 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28037 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28039 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28040 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28041 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28042 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28043 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28044 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28045 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28046 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28047 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28048 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28049 800kB/s of capacity.
28050 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28053 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28054 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28055 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28056 need as much processor time.
28057 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28058 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28059 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28060 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28061 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28062 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28063 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28064 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28065 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28066 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28067 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28068 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28070 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28071 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28072 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28073 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28074 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28075 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28076 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28079 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28080 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28081 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28083 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28084 style address, then we'd crash.
28085 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28086 a dirserver is broken.
28087 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28089 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28090 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28091 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28093 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28094 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28095 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28096 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28097 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28098 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28100 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28101 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28102 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28104 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28106 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28107 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28108 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28109 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28110 values at once couldn't work.
28111 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28112 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28113 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28114 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28115 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28116 they can handle any number of routers.
28117 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28118 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28119 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28120 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28121 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28122 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28123 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28124 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28125 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28128 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28129 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28130 - Make hibernation actually work.
28131 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28132 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28133 don't use the stream status code.
28136 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28138 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
28139 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
28141 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
28144 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
28145 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
28146 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
28147 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
28148 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
28149 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28150 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28151 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
28152 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
28153 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
28155 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28156 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28157 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28158 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28159 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28160 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
28161 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28162 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28165 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
28166 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
28167 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
28169 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
28170 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
28171 than just chopping them off.
28172 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
28174 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28175 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28176 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28177 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28178 right after sending the begin cell.
28179 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28180 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28181 exit nodes too. Oops.
28184 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28185 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28186 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28187 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28188 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28189 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28190 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28191 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28192 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28193 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28196 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
28197 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28198 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28199 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28201 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28203 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
28204 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
28205 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
28207 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
28208 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
28209 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
28210 Clip rather than rejecting.
28211 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
28212 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
28215 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28216 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28217 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28218 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28220 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28223 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
28224 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28225 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28226 win32 socket errors better.
28228 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
28229 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
28232 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
28233 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28234 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28235 so we don't see those messages days later.
28237 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
28238 - Make tor-resolve work again.
28239 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
28240 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
28243 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
28244 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
28245 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
28246 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
28248 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
28249 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
28250 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
28253 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
28254 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28255 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28256 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28257 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28258 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28259 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28260 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28261 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28263 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
28264 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
28265 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
28266 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
28268 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
28269 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
28272 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28273 hibernation properties by
28274 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28275 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28276 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28277 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28278 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28279 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28280 get back to normal.)
28281 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28283 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28284 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28285 to fill the last cell completely.
28286 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28289 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
28290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28291 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28292 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28293 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28294 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28295 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28296 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28297 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28298 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28299 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28301 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
28302 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
28303 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
28304 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
28305 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
28306 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
28307 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
28308 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
28310 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
28311 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
28312 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
28313 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
28314 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
28315 have it on start-up.
28318 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
28319 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
28320 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
28321 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28322 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28323 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28324 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28325 configuration to torrc.
28326 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28327 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
28328 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28329 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28330 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
28332 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
28333 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28334 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28335 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28336 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28337 log more informatively.
28338 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28339 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28340 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28341 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28342 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28343 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28344 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28345 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28346 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28347 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28348 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28351 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
28352 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
28353 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
28354 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28355 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28356 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28357 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28359 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28360 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28361 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28362 they ran out of file descriptors.
28363 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
28364 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
28365 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28366 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28367 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28368 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28369 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28371 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28374 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
28375 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
28376 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
28377 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
28378 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
28379 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
28380 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
28381 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28382 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28383 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28384 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28385 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28386 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28387 with the control port.
28388 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28389 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28390 - New log format in config:
28391 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28392 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28395 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28396 from their dirserver.
28397 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28399 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28400 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28401 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28402 them act more like real nodes.
28403 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28404 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28406 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28407 nickname to its identity key.
28408 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28409 not on the command line.
28410 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28411 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28412 1024) file descriptors.
28414 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28415 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28417 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28418 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
28419 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
28422 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
28423 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
28424 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
28425 exit policy, not reject *:*.
28426 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
28427 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
28428 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
28429 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
28430 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
28431 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
28432 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28435 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28436 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28437 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28438 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28439 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28440 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28441 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28444 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
28445 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
28446 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28447 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28448 the ones we find in directories.)
28449 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28451 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
28452 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
28454 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
28455 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
28456 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
28458 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
28459 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
28460 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
28461 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
28463 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
28464 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
28465 any more exit policy lines.
28468 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28469 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28470 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28471 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28472 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28473 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28474 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28475 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28476 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28477 will be able to get a directory.
28478 - Http proxy support
28479 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28480 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28481 be routed through this host.
28482 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28483 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28484 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28485 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28488 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28490 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28491 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28492 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28493 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28494 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28495 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28496 intermittent connections.
28497 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28498 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28500 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28501 in reporting stats locally.
28502 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28503 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28504 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28507 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
28509 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
28510 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
28513 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
28515 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28516 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28517 if you don't want it open.
28518 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28519 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
28520 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28521 intermittent connections.
28522 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28524 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28525 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28526 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28527 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28528 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28529 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28530 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28531 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28532 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28533 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28534 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
28535 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
28536 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
28537 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
28538 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28539 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28542 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28543 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28544 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28545 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28546 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28548 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28550 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
28551 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
28552 specified in HTTP 1.0.
28553 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28554 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28555 than once per minute.
28556 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28557 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28560 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28561 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28564 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
28565 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
28566 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
28567 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
28570 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
28571 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
28573 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28574 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28575 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
28576 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
28577 until we get our next directory.
28579 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
28580 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
28581 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
28582 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
28583 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
28584 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
28585 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
28586 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
28587 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
28588 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
28589 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
28591 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
28593 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
28594 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
28596 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
28597 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
28598 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
28600 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
28602 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
28603 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
28604 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
28605 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
28606 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
28607 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
28608 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
28609 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28612 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
28613 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
28614 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
28615 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
28618 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
28619 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
28620 ask them to resolve the host "".
28623 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
28624 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
28625 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
28626 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
28627 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
28628 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
28629 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
28630 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
28631 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
28632 clients don't use this yet.)
28633 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
28634 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
28635 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28636 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28637 for pointing out this bug.)
28638 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
28639 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
28640 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
28641 kazaa, gnutella ports.
28642 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
28644 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
28645 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28646 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28647 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
28648 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
28649 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
28650 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
28651 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
28652 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
28653 wolf unpredictably.
28654 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
28655 that's still handshaking.
28656 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
28657 you'll choose it for your path.
28658 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
28659 end relay cell, etc.
28660 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
28661 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
28662 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
28665 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
28666 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
28668 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28669 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28670 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28671 list to decide who's running or verified.
28672 - Bugfixes and features:
28673 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28674 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28675 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
28676 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
28677 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
28678 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
28680 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
28681 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
28682 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
28683 know you might want to get it verified.
28684 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
28687 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
28689 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28690 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28691 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28692 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28694 o Protocol changes:
28695 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28696 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28697 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28698 hadn't heard of before.
28701 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28702 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28703 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28704 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28705 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28706 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28707 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28708 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28709 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
28710 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
28711 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
28712 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
28713 - Directory caching.
28714 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
28715 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
28716 directory they've pulled down.
28717 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
28718 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
28719 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
28720 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
28721 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
28722 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
28723 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
28725 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
28726 This isn't used yet.
28727 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
28728 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
28729 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
28730 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
28731 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
28732 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
28733 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
28734 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
28735 - File and name management:
28736 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
28737 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
28739 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
28740 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
28741 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
28742 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
28743 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
28744 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
28745 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
28747 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
28748 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
28749 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
28750 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
28751 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
28753 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
28754 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
28755 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
28756 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
28757 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
28758 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
28759 - New docs in the tarball:
28761 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
28764 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
28765 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
28766 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
28769 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
28770 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
28771 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
28774 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
28775 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
28778 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
28779 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
28780 - Make it build on Win32 again.
28781 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
28782 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
28786 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
28788 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
28789 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
28790 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
28791 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
28792 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
28793 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
28794 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
28795 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
28796 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
28797 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
28800 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
28803 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
28804 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
28805 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
28806 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
28808 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
28809 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
28810 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
28812 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
28813 hidden service per 15-minute period.
28814 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
28815 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
28816 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
28817 o Fixes for security bugs:
28818 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
28819 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
28820 a trusted dirserver.
28822 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
28823 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
28824 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
28825 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
28826 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
28827 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
28828 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
28829 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
28830 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
28831 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
28833 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
28834 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
28835 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
28836 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
28838 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
28839 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
28840 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
28841 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
28842 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
28843 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
28844 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
28845 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
28846 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
28847 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
28848 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
28849 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
28850 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
28853 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
28854 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
28855 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
28856 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28859 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
28860 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
28861 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
28862 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
28863 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
28864 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28865 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
28869 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
28870 [version bump only]
28873 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
28874 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
28875 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
28876 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
28877 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
28879 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
28882 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
28883 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
28884 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
28885 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
28886 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
28887 o Better debugging for tls errors
28888 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
28889 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
28890 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
28891 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
28892 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
28893 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
28894 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28895 o win32's close can't close a socket.
28898 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
28899 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28900 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28901 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28902 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28903 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
28904 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28905 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28906 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
28907 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
28908 just close the circ.
28909 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
28910 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
28911 (this was quite rare).
28914 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
28915 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
28916 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
28917 if you decrypted them correctly.
28918 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
28919 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
28920 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
28923 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
28924 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
28925 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
28926 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
28927 a second one and it works.
28928 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
28929 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
28930 alice would just have to wait to time out.
28931 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
28932 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
28933 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
28934 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
28935 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
28936 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
28937 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
28938 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
28939 i'd still like to find the bug though.
28940 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
28942 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
28946 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
28947 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
28948 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
28949 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
28950 he retries a couple of times
28951 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
28952 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
28953 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
28954 too long (they were sticking around forever).
28955 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
28959 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
28960 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
28961 - make hup work again
28962 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
28963 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
28964 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
28965 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
28966 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
28967 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
28969 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
28970 o changes from 0.0.5:
28971 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
28972 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
28973 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
28974 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
28975 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
28977 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
28978 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
28979 in-memory directories too
28982 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
28983 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
28986 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
28988 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
28989 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
28990 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
28991 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
28994 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28995 [version bump only]
28998 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
28999 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29001 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
29002 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29003 but that aren't warnings
29006 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
29007 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29008 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29009 the dns farm to do it.
29010 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29011 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29013 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29014 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29015 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29018 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
29019 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29020 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29021 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29022 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29023 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29024 expect it to have a nickname.
29025 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29026 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29029 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29030 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29034 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29035 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29036 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29037 - include missing header fcntl.h
29038 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29039 - deal with hardware word alignment
29040 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29041 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29042 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29043 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29044 by kill -USR1 currently.
29045 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29046 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29047 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29050 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29051 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29052 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29057 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29058 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29059 - And fix a few endian issues.
29062 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29064 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29065 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29066 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29067 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29068 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29069 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29070 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29071 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29073 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29074 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29075 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29077 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29079 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29080 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29081 side isn't reading right then.
29082 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29083 RecommendedVersions
29084 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29085 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29086 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29089 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29091 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29092 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29095 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29099 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29101 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29102 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29103 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29104 connection is finished.
29105 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29106 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29107 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29108 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29109 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29110 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29111 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29112 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29113 rather than warn and continue.
29114 - Make --version work
29115 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29118 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29120 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29121 knows it's working.
29122 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29123 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29125 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29126 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29127 so you can collect coredumps there.
29129 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29130 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29131 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29132 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29133 dns cache actually gets populated.
29134 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29135 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29136 end cell down it first.
29137 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29138 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29141 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29143 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29144 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29146 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29147 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29148 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29149 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29150 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29151 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29153 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29155 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29156 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29157 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29158 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29159 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29160 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29162 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29163 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29166 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29168 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29169 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29170 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29171 tor. It even has a man page.
29172 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29173 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29174 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29175 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29177 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29179 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29182 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29184 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29185 it, apt-getters. :)
29186 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29187 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29188 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29189 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29190 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29191 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29192 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29193 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29194 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29195 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29196 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29198 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29199 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29202 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29204 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29205 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29208 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29210 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29211 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29212 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29213 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29214 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29215 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29216 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29217 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29218 logfile so you know it's working.
29219 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29220 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29223 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29225 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29226 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29227 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29230 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29232 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29233 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29234 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29237 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29238 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29239 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29241 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29242 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29244 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29245 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29246 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29248 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29249 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29253 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29255 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29256 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29257 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29260 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29261 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29262 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29263 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29264 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29265 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29266 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29267 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29268 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29269 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29271 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29274 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29275 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29276 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29277 really screw things up.
29278 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29280 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29281 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29283 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29284 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29285 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29286 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29287 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29288 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29291 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29294 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29295 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29296 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29298 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29301 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29302 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29303 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29304 - to get ownership/permissions right
29305 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29306 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29307 pull down a directory again
29308 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29309 causing server crashes
29310 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29311 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29312 - exit if bind() fails
29313 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29314 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29315 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29316 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29317 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29320 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29322 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29323 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29325 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29326 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29327 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29328 exists, rather than failing
29329 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29330 which AP connections are standing by
29331 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29332 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29333 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29335 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29336 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29339 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29340 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29342 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29343 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29344 - Reloads config on HUP
29345 - Usage info on -h or --help
29346 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29349 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29350 o General stability:
29351 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29352 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29353 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29354 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29355 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29356 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29357 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29360 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29361 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29363 o Autoconf improvements:
29364 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29365 - Make install now works
29366 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29367 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29368 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29370 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29371 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29372 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29373 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup