1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
6 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
7 in earlier versions of Tor.
9 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
10 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
11 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
12 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
13 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
14 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
15 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
16 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
17 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
20 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
21 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
24 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
27 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
28 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
29 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
30 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
31 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
32 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
33 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
34 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
35 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
38 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
39 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
40 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
41 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
42 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
43 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
44 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
45 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
48 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
49 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
53 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
54 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
55 in earlier versions of Tor.
57 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
58 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
59 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
60 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
61 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
62 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
63 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
64 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
65 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
68 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
69 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
72 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
75 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
76 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
77 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
78 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
79 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
80 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
81 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
82 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
83 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
86 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
87 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
88 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
89 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
90 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
91 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
92 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
93 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
96 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
97 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
101 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
102 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
105 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
106 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
107 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
108 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
109 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
110 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
111 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
112 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
113 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
116 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
117 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
120 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
121 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
123 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
124 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
125 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
126 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
127 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
128 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
129 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
130 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
131 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
134 o Minor features (geoip data):
135 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
136 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
137 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
138 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
139 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
140 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
141 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
144 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
145 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
146 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
147 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
148 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
150 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
151 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
152 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
154 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
155 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
156 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
157 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
158 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
160 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
161 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
162 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
164 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
165 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
166 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
168 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
169 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
170 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
172 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
173 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
174 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
175 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
176 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
177 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
178 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
179 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
181 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
182 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
186 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
187 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
188 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
189 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
190 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
191 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
192 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
193 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
194 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
195 welcoming approach to growing our community.
197 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
198 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
199 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
200 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
201 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
202 smaller features and bugfixes.
204 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
205 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
207 o Major features (build):
208 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
209 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
210 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
211 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
212 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
214 o Major features (metrics):
215 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
216 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
217 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
218 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
219 information and security considerations.
221 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
222 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
223 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
225 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
226 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
227 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
228 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
229 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
230 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
231 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
232 use. Closes ticket 33220.
233 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
234 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
235 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
238 o Major features (tracing):
239 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
240 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
241 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
242 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
243 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
245 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
246 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
247 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
248 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
249 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
251 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
252 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
253 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
254 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
255 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
256 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
257 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
259 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
260 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
261 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
262 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
263 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
264 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
266 o Minor features (address discovery):
267 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
268 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
269 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
270 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
272 o Minor features (admin tools):
273 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
274 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
275 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
278 o Minor features (authority, logging):
279 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
280 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
283 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
284 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
285 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
286 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
287 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
288 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
290 o Minor features (build):
291 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
292 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
293 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
294 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
295 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
297 o Minor features (configuration):
298 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
299 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
300 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
301 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
302 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
303 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
305 o Minor features (control port):
306 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
307 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
308 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
309 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
311 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
312 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
313 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
316 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
317 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
318 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
319 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
320 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
321 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
322 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
324 o Minor features (directory authorities):
325 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
326 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
328 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
329 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
330 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
331 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
332 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
333 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
334 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
335 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
336 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
337 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
338 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
340 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
341 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
342 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
343 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
345 o Minor features (documentation):
346 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
347 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
348 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
350 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
351 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
352 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
353 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
355 o Minor features (heartbeat):
356 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
357 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
359 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
360 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
361 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
363 o Minor features (logging):
364 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
365 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
366 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
367 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
368 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
369 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
371 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
372 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
373 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
374 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
376 o Minor features (onion services):
377 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
378 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
379 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
381 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
382 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
383 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
384 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
385 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
386 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
388 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
389 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
390 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
391 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
392 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
394 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
395 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
396 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
397 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
398 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
399 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
400 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
402 o Minor features (relay):
403 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
404 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
405 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
406 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
407 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
410 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
411 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
412 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
415 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
416 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
417 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
418 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
419 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
420 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
421 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
422 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
423 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
425 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
426 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
428 o Minor features (safety):
429 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
430 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
433 o Minor features (specification update):
434 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
435 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
436 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
438 o Minor features (state management):
439 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
440 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
441 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
442 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
443 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
445 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
446 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
447 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
448 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
449 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
451 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
452 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
453 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
455 o Minor features (testing configuration):
456 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
457 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
458 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
459 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
461 o Minor features (testing):
462 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
463 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
465 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
466 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
467 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
468 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
470 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
471 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
472 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
473 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
474 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
475 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
476 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
477 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
478 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
480 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
481 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
482 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
483 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
484 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
485 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
487 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
488 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
489 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
490 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
491 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
492 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
495 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
496 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
497 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
498 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
499 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
500 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
503 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
504 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
505 when a stream is attached with the purpose
506 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
507 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
509 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
510 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
511 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
512 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
514 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
515 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
516 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
517 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
518 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
519 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
520 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
521 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
523 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
524 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
525 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
526 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
527 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
528 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
529 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
530 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
533 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
534 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
535 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
536 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
538 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
539 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
540 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
541 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
542 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
543 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
544 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
546 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
547 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
548 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
549 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
550 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
551 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
553 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
554 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
555 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
557 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
558 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
559 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
560 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
561 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
562 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
563 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
564 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
566 o Code simplification and refactoring:
567 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
568 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
569 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
570 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
571 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
572 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
573 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
575 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
576 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
577 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
578 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
579 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
580 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
581 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
583 - Split implementation of several command line options from
584 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
585 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
586 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
587 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
588 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
591 o Deprecated features:
592 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
593 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
594 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
597 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
598 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
601 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
602 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
603 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
604 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
606 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
607 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
609 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
610 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
611 directory. Closes part of 40139.
612 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
613 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
617 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
618 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
620 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
621 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
622 31699; Patch by @bduszel
624 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
625 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
626 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
627 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
628 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
630 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
631 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
632 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
633 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
634 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
636 o Documentation (manual page):
637 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
638 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
639 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
640 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
642 o Documentation (tracing):
643 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
644 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
646 o Removed features (controller):
647 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
648 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
651 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
652 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
653 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
654 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
655 DoS attacks harder to perform.
657 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
658 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
659 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
660 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
661 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
664 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
665 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
666 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
667 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
670 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
671 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
672 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
673 this. Closes ticket 40227.
675 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
676 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
677 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
678 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
679 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
681 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
682 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
683 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
684 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
685 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
686 weasel for diagnosing this.
688 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
689 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
690 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
691 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
692 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
693 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
694 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
696 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
697 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
698 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
699 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
701 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
702 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
703 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
704 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
706 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
707 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
708 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
709 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
710 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
711 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
712 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
714 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
715 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
718 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
719 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
720 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
721 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
722 DoS attacks harder to perform.
724 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
725 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
727 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
728 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
729 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
730 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
731 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
734 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
735 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
736 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
737 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
738 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
740 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
741 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
742 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
743 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
746 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
747 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
748 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
749 this. Closes ticket 40227.
751 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
752 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
753 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
754 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
755 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
757 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
758 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
759 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
760 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
761 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
762 weasel for diagnosing this.
764 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
765 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
766 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
767 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
768 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
769 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
770 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
773 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
774 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
776 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
777 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
778 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
779 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
781 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
782 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
783 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
784 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
786 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
787 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
788 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
789 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
790 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
791 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
792 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
794 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
795 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
798 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
799 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
800 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
801 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
802 DoS attacks harder to perform.
804 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
805 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
806 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
807 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
808 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
811 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
812 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
813 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
814 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
815 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
817 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
818 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
819 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
820 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
823 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
824 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
825 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
826 this. Closes ticket 40227.
828 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
829 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
830 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
831 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
832 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
834 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
835 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
836 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
837 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
838 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
839 weasel for diagnosing this.
841 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
842 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
843 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
844 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
845 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
846 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
847 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
849 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
850 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
851 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
854 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
855 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
856 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
858 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
859 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
860 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
861 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
863 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
864 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
865 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
866 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
868 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
869 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
872 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
873 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
874 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
875 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
876 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
877 intended for a different relay.
879 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
880 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
881 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
882 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
883 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
884 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
885 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
887 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
888 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
889 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
890 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
891 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
892 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
893 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
894 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
895 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
896 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
897 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
899 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
900 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
901 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
902 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
905 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
906 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
907 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
909 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
910 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
911 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
913 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
914 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
915 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
916 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
917 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
918 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
920 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
921 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
922 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
924 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
925 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
926 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
929 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
930 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
931 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
932 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
935 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
936 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
937 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
938 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
939 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
941 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
942 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
943 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
946 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
947 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
948 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
949 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
951 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
952 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
953 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
954 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
955 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
956 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
957 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
959 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
960 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
961 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
962 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
963 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
966 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
967 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
968 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
969 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
970 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
971 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
973 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
974 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
975 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
976 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
979 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
980 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
981 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
982 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
984 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
985 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
986 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
988 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
989 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
990 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
992 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
993 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
994 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
995 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
996 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
998 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
999 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1000 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1002 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1003 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1004 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1005 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1006 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1007 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1008 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1010 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1011 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1012 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1015 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1016 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1017 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1018 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1019 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1020 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1023 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1024 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1025 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1026 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1028 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1029 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1030 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1031 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1033 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1034 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1035 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1037 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1038 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1041 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1042 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1043 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1044 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1045 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1046 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1047 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
1050 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
1051 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1052 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1053 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1054 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1056 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1057 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1058 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1059 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1061 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1062 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1063 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1064 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1065 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1066 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1067 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1069 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1070 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1071 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1072 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1073 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1076 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1077 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1078 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1079 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1080 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1081 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1083 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1084 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1085 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1086 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1088 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1089 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1090 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1091 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1092 closes ticket 40133.
1094 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1095 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1096 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1097 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1099 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1100 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1101 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1103 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1104 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1105 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1107 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1108 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1109 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1110 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1111 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1113 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1114 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1115 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1117 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1118 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1119 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1120 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1121 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1122 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1123 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1125 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1126 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1127 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1130 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1131 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1132 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1133 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1134 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1135 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1138 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1139 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1140 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1141 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1143 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1144 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1145 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1146 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1148 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1149 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1150 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1152 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1153 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1156 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
1157 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
1158 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
1159 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
1160 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
1161 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
1162 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
1164 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1165 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1166 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1167 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
1168 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
1170 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
1171 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
1172 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
1174 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
1175 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1177 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
1178 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
1179 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
1180 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
1181 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
1182 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
1183 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
1184 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
1185 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
1186 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
1188 o Major features (fallback directory list):
1189 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1190 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1191 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1193 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
1194 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
1195 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
1196 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
1197 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
1198 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
1199 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
1201 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
1203 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
1204 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
1205 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
1206 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
1208 o Major features (v3 onion services):
1209 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
1210 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
1211 Closes ticket 32709.
1213 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
1214 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1215 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1216 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1217 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1220 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
1221 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
1222 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
1223 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
1224 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
1225 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1227 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
1228 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1229 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1230 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1231 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1233 o Minor features (security):
1234 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1235 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1236 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1237 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1238 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1240 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1241 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
1242 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
1243 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
1244 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
1247 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
1248 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
1249 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
1250 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
1251 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
1252 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
1253 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
1255 o Minor features (code safety):
1256 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
1257 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
1258 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
1259 Resolves issue 33788.
1261 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1262 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
1263 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
1264 Resolves ticket 32143.
1266 o Minor features (control port):
1267 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
1268 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
1269 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1270 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
1271 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
1272 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
1273 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1275 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1276 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
1277 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
1279 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
1280 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
1281 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
1282 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
1283 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
1284 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
1286 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1287 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
1288 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
1289 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
1290 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
1291 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
1292 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
1293 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
1295 o Minor features (directory authority):
1296 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
1297 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
1298 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
1299 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
1300 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
1302 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
1303 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
1304 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
1305 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
1307 o Minor features (directory):
1308 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
1309 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
1310 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
1313 o Minor features (entry guards):
1314 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
1315 Closes ticket 40001.
1317 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
1318 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
1319 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
1321 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
1322 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
1323 Closes ticket 33901.
1325 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
1326 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
1327 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
1328 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
1329 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
1330 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
1331 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
1333 o Minor features (logging):
1334 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
1335 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
1337 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
1338 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
1339 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
1340 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
1343 o Minor features (onion service v3):
1344 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
1345 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1347 o Minor features (python scripts):
1348 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
1349 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
1350 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
1351 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
1353 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
1354 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
1355 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
1356 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
1357 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
1358 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
1359 up from ticket 33316.
1360 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1361 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1362 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1364 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
1365 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
1366 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
1367 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1369 o Minor features (windows):
1370 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
1371 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
1373 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
1374 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
1375 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
1376 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1378 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
1379 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1380 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1381 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1382 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1384 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
1385 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
1386 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
1387 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
1388 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
1389 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1391 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1392 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
1393 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
1394 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
1397 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
1398 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
1399 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
1400 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1402 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
1403 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
1404 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1406 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1407 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
1408 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
1409 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
1410 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
1411 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1412 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
1413 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
1414 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
1415 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1417 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1418 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
1419 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
1420 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
1421 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
1423 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
1424 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
1425 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
1426 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
1429 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
1430 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
1431 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
1432 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
1433 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1434 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
1435 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1437 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
1438 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
1439 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
1442 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
1443 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1445 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
1446 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
1447 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1449 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
1450 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
1451 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
1454 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
1455 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
1456 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
1459 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
1460 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1461 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1462 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1463 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1464 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1465 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1467 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
1468 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
1469 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
1470 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
1472 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
1473 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
1474 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
1475 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
1476 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
1479 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
1480 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1481 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1482 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1483 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1484 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1487 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
1488 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
1489 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
1492 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1493 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1494 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1495 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1497 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1498 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
1499 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1500 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
1501 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1504 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
1505 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1506 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1508 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1509 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
1510 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
1511 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
1512 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1513 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
1514 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
1515 isolated in subsystems of their own.
1516 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
1517 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
1518 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
1519 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
1521 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
1522 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1523 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
1524 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
1526 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
1527 code. Closes ticket 33014.
1528 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
1529 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
1532 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
1533 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
1534 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
1535 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
1536 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
1537 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1540 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1541 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1542 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1543 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1544 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1545 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
1546 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
1547 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
1548 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
1549 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
1550 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1551 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
1552 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
1555 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
1556 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
1557 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
1558 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
1559 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
1560 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
1561 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
1562 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
1564 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
1565 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
1567 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
1568 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
1569 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
1570 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
1571 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
1572 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
1573 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
1574 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
1575 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
1576 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
1577 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
1578 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
1580 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
1581 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1584 o Documentation (manual page):
1585 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
1586 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
1587 Google Season of Docs.
1588 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
1589 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
1590 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
1591 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1592 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
1593 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
1594 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
1595 Closes ticket 33778.
1598 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
1599 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
1600 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
1602 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1603 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1604 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1605 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1606 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1607 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1608 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1611 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1612 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1613 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1614 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1617 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1618 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1619 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1620 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1621 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1622 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1624 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1625 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1626 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1627 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1628 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1629 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1631 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1632 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1633 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1636 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1637 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1638 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1641 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1642 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1643 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1644 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1647 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1648 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1649 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1650 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1651 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1653 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1654 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1655 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1657 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1658 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1659 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1660 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1661 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1664 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1665 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1666 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1667 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1668 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1669 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1671 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1672 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1673 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1674 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1676 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1677 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1678 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1679 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1682 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1683 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1684 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1685 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1686 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1687 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1688 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1689 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1693 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
1694 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
1695 several that affect usability and portability.
1697 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1698 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1699 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1700 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1701 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1702 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1703 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1706 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1707 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1708 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1709 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1712 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1713 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1714 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1715 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1716 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1717 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1719 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
1720 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1721 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1722 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1723 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1725 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1726 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
1727 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
1728 code. Closes ticket 33290.
1730 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1731 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
1732 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
1733 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
1734 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
1735 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
1737 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1738 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1739 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1741 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1742 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
1743 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
1744 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
1747 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1748 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1749 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1750 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1753 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
1754 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
1755 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
1756 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
1757 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
1758 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
1761 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1762 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1763 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1765 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
1766 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
1767 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
1768 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1770 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1771 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1772 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1773 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1774 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1777 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1778 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
1779 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
1780 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
1781 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
1782 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1784 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
1785 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
1786 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
1787 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
1788 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1790 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1791 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
1792 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
1793 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
1795 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1796 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1797 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1798 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1800 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
1801 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
1802 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
1803 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
1806 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
1807 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
1808 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
1809 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
1810 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
1811 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1812 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
1813 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
1817 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
1818 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
1819 some affecting usability.
1821 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
1822 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
1823 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
1824 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
1825 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
1826 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
1827 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
1830 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1831 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
1832 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1833 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
1836 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1837 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
1838 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
1840 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1841 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
1842 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
1843 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
1846 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1847 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
1848 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
1850 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1851 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
1852 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
1853 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1855 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1856 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
1857 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
1858 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1860 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1861 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
1862 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1864 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1865 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
1866 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
1867 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
1868 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1870 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1871 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
1872 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
1874 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1875 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1876 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1877 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1879 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1880 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
1884 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
1885 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
1886 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
1887 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
1888 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
1889 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
1892 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
1893 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
1894 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
1895 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
1896 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
1898 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
1899 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
1900 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
1903 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
1904 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1906 o New system requirements:
1907 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
1908 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
1909 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
1911 o Major features (build system):
1912 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
1913 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
1914 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
1915 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
1916 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
1918 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
1919 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
1920 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
1921 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
1922 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1924 o Major features (onion services):
1925 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
1926 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
1927 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
1928 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
1929 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
1930 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
1931 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
1933 o Major features (proxy):
1934 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
1935 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
1936 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
1937 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
1938 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
1939 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1941 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
1942 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
1943 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
1944 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
1945 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
1946 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
1947 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
1948 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
1949 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
1951 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
1952 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
1953 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
1954 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
1955 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
1957 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
1958 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
1959 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
1960 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
1961 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
1963 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
1964 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
1965 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
1966 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
1967 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
1968 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1970 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1971 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
1972 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
1973 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1975 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1976 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
1977 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
1978 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
1979 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
1980 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1982 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
1983 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
1984 message. Closes ticket 31371.
1986 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
1987 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
1988 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
1989 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
1990 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
1992 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
1993 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
1994 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
1995 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
1997 o Minor features (configuration validation):
1998 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
1999 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
2000 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
2001 Closes ticket 31241.
2003 o Minor features (configuration):
2004 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
2005 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
2007 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
2008 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
2009 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
2010 Implements ticket 32404.
2012 o Minor features (configure, build system):
2013 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
2014 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
2016 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2017 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2018 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
2019 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2020 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2021 Closes ticket 33075.
2023 o Minor features (controller):
2024 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
2025 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
2026 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
2028 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2029 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2030 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2031 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2033 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2034 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
2035 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
2038 o Minor features (developer tools):
2039 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
2040 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
2041 Closes ticket 32772.
2042 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
2043 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
2044 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
2045 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
2046 target. Closes ticket 31919.
2047 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
2048 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
2049 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
2051 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
2052 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
2053 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
2054 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
2056 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2057 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2058 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2059 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2061 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2062 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2063 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
2064 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2066 o Minor features (Doxygen):
2067 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
2068 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
2069 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
2071 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
2072 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
2073 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
2074 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
2075 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
2076 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
2077 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
2078 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
2080 o Minor features (git scripts):
2081 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
2082 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
2083 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
2084 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
2085 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
2086 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
2087 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
2088 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
2089 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
2090 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
2091 Closes ticket 32216.
2092 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
2093 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
2094 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
2095 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
2097 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
2098 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
2099 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
2100 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
2101 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
2102 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
2104 o Minor features (portability, android):
2105 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
2106 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
2107 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2109 o Minor features (relay modularity):
2110 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
2111 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
2112 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2113 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2114 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
2115 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
2116 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
2117 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
2118 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
2120 o Minor features (release tools):
2121 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
2122 Closes ticket 32704.
2124 o Minor features (testing):
2125 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2126 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2127 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2128 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2129 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2130 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
2131 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
2132 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
2133 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
2134 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
2135 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
2137 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
2138 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
2139 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
2141 o Minor features (usability):
2142 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
2143 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
2144 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
2146 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
2147 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2148 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2149 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2152 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2153 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2154 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2156 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2157 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
2158 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2160 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
2161 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2162 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2163 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2164 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2165 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2168 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
2169 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
2170 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
2171 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2172 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
2173 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
2174 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
2175 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
2176 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
2177 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
2178 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
2179 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
2180 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
2181 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2182 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
2183 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
2184 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
2185 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2187 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2188 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
2191 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2192 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2193 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2194 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2196 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2197 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
2198 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
2201 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
2202 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
2203 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
2205 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
2206 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
2207 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
2208 Closes ticket 32213.
2209 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
2210 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
2211 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2213 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2214 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2215 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2216 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2217 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2220 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2221 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
2223 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
2224 Closes ticket 32216.
2226 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
2227 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2228 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2229 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2230 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2231 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2233 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2234 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2235 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2236 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2237 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2238 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2239 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
2240 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
2242 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2243 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2244 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2245 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2247 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2248 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2249 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2250 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2252 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
2253 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
2254 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
2255 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
2256 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
2257 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
2258 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
2259 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
2262 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2263 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2264 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2265 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2267 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
2268 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
2269 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
2270 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2271 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2272 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2273 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2275 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
2276 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
2277 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
2278 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
2279 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2281 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2282 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
2283 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
2284 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
2287 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
2288 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
2289 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
2290 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
2291 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2293 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2294 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
2295 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
2296 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2298 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
2299 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2300 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2301 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2303 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
2304 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
2305 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2307 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2308 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
2309 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
2310 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
2312 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
2313 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2314 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
2315 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
2316 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
2317 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
2318 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2320 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
2321 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
2322 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
2323 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
2324 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
2326 o Deprecated features:
2327 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
2328 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
2329 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
2333 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
2334 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
2335 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
2336 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
2337 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
2338 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
2339 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
2340 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
2342 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
2343 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
2346 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
2347 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
2348 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
2349 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
2350 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
2351 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
2353 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
2354 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
2355 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
2356 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
2357 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
2360 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
2361 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
2362 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
2363 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
2364 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
2366 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
2367 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
2369 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
2370 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
2371 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
2372 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
2373 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
2376 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
2377 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
2378 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
2380 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
2381 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
2382 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
2383 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
2384 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
2385 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
2386 Solves part of ticket 32339.
2387 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
2388 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
2389 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
2390 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
2391 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
2392 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
2393 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
2394 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
2395 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
2396 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
2398 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
2399 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
2401 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
2402 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
2403 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
2405 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
2406 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
2407 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
2408 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
2409 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
2410 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
2412 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
2413 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
2414 Closes ticket 32163.
2415 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
2417 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
2419 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
2420 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
2421 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
2423 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2424 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
2425 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
2426 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
2427 Closes ticket 32304.
2428 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
2429 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
2430 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
2431 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
2432 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
2435 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
2436 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2438 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
2441 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
2442 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
2443 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
2444 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2445 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
2446 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
2447 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
2448 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
2450 o Documentation (manpage):
2451 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
2452 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
2453 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2454 Google Season of Docs.
2455 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
2456 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
2457 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
2458 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
2459 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2460 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2462 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
2464 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
2465 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
2466 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
2468 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
2469 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
2470 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2472 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
2473 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2474 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2475 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2476 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2477 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2478 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2479 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2482 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
2483 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
2486 o Testing (Travis CI):
2487 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2488 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2489 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2491 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2492 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2493 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2494 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2495 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2498 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
2499 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2500 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2501 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
2502 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
2503 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
2504 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
2505 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
2506 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
2507 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
2508 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
2509 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2511 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2512 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2513 as soon as packages are available.
2515 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2516 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2517 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2518 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2519 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2520 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2521 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2522 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2523 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2525 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2526 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2527 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2528 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2529 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2531 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2532 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2533 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2534 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2535 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2537 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2538 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2539 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2540 Closes ticket 33075.
2542 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2543 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2544 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2546 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2547 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2548 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2549 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2550 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2553 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2554 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2555 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2556 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2559 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2560 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2561 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2562 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2564 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2565 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2566 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2567 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2569 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2570 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2571 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2572 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2573 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2576 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
2577 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
2578 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
2579 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
2580 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
2581 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
2582 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
2583 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
2584 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
2585 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
2586 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
2587 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
2589 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2590 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2591 as soon as packages are available.
2593 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2594 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2595 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2596 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2597 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2598 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2599 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2600 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2601 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2603 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2604 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2605 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2606 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2607 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2609 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2610 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2611 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2613 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2614 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2615 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2616 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2617 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2620 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2621 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2622 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2623 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2626 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2627 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2628 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2629 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2631 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2632 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2633 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2634 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2636 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2637 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2638 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2639 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2640 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2643 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
2644 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
2645 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
2646 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
2647 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
2648 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
2649 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
2650 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
2651 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
2652 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
2653 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
2656 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
2657 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
2658 as soon as packages are available.
2660 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2661 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2662 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2663 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2664 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2665 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2666 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2667 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2668 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2670 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2671 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2672 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2673 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2674 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
2675 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2676 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2677 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2680 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2681 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2682 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2683 Closes ticket 33075.
2685 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2686 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
2687 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
2689 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2690 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2691 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2692 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2693 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2695 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2696 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
2697 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
2698 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
2699 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
2702 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2703 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
2704 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
2705 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
2708 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2709 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
2710 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
2711 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2713 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2714 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2715 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2716 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2717 Closes ticket 32629.
2718 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2719 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2720 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2722 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2723 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2725 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2726 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2727 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
2728 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2730 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2731 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2732 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2733 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2736 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
2737 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
2738 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
2739 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
2740 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
2741 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
2743 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2744 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2745 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2746 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2747 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2748 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2749 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2750 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2752 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2753 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2754 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2756 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2757 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
2758 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
2759 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2761 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2762 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
2763 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
2764 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2766 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2767 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
2768 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
2769 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2770 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
2771 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
2774 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2775 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2776 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2778 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2779 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2780 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2781 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2782 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2783 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2784 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2785 Closes ticket 32629.
2787 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2788 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2791 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
2792 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
2793 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
2794 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
2795 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
2796 current version of 0.4.1.x.
2798 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2799 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
2800 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
2801 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
2802 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
2803 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
2804 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
2805 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2807 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
2808 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
2809 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
2811 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
2812 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
2813 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
2814 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
2815 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2817 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2818 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
2819 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2821 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2822 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
2823 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
2824 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
2825 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
2826 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
2827 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
2828 Closes ticket 32629.
2830 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2831 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
2834 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
2835 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
2836 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
2837 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
2838 bugs present in previous series.
2840 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
2841 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
2842 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2843 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2845 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
2846 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2848 o Major features (directory authorities):
2849 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2850 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2851 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2853 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2854 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2855 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2856 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2857 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2858 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2861 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2862 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2863 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2864 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2865 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2866 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2869 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2870 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2871 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2872 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2873 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2874 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2875 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2876 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2877 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2879 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2880 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2881 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2882 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2884 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2885 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2886 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2887 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2888 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2889 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2890 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2891 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2893 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2894 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2895 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2896 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2897 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2899 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2900 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2901 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2902 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2903 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2906 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2907 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2908 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2909 Closes ticket 29669.
2911 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2912 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2913 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2914 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2915 Closes ticket 31779.
2917 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2918 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2919 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2920 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2921 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2922 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2923 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2924 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2925 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2926 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2927 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2928 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2929 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2930 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2931 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2933 o Minor features (build system):
2934 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
2935 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
2936 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2937 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2938 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2940 o Minor features (compilation):
2941 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2942 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2943 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2945 o Minor features (configuration):
2946 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2947 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2948 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2949 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2951 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2952 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2953 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2954 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2955 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2956 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2957 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2959 o Minor features (debugging):
2960 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2961 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2962 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2963 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2965 o Minor features (geoip):
2966 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2967 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2969 o Minor features (git hooks):
2970 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2971 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2972 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2973 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2974 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2976 o Minor features (git scripts):
2977 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2978 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2979 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2980 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2981 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2982 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2983 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2984 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2985 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2986 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2987 Closes ticket 31314.
2988 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2989 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2990 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2991 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2992 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2993 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2994 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2995 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2996 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2998 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2999 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
3000 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
3003 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
3004 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
3005 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
3007 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
3008 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
3009 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
3010 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
3011 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
3012 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
3013 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
3015 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3016 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
3017 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
3019 o Minor features (onion service):
3020 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
3021 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
3022 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
3023 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
3025 o Minor features (onion services v3):
3026 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
3027 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
3030 o Minor features (stem tests):
3031 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3032 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3035 o Minor features (testing):
3036 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
3037 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
3038 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
3039 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
3040 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
3041 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
3042 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
3043 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
3044 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
3045 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
3046 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
3047 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
3048 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
3049 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
3050 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
3052 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
3053 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3054 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3055 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3057 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3058 Closes ticket 31859.
3059 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3060 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3062 o Minor features (token bucket):
3063 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
3064 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
3066 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
3067 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
3068 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3070 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
3071 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
3072 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
3073 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3074 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
3075 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
3076 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
3077 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
3080 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3081 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
3082 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3083 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
3085 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
3086 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3087 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
3088 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
3089 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3090 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3091 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3093 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
3094 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
3095 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
3096 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
3097 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
3098 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3100 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
3101 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3102 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3103 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3104 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3105 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3107 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
3108 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
3109 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3111 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3112 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3113 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3114 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3115 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3117 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3118 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3119 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3121 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3122 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
3123 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
3124 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
3126 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
3127 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3128 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3129 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3131 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3132 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
3133 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
3134 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3136 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
3137 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
3138 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
3139 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
3140 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
3141 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
3142 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
3143 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
3144 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
3145 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3147 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
3148 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3149 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3150 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3151 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3153 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3154 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
3155 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
3158 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3159 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
3160 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3162 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
3163 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
3164 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3165 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3166 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3167 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3168 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3169 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3170 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3171 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3172 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3173 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3176 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
3177 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3178 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3179 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3182 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
3183 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
3184 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
3185 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3187 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3188 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
3189 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
3190 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3191 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
3192 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3193 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
3194 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
3195 Closes ticket 31678.
3197 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3198 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3199 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3200 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3201 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3203 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
3204 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
3205 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
3206 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
3207 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3208 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
3209 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
3210 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
3211 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
3214 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3215 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3216 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3217 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3218 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3219 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3220 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3221 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3222 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3223 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
3224 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3225 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3226 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3228 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
3229 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
3230 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
3232 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
3233 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3234 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3235 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3237 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
3238 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3239 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3240 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3241 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3244 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3245 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
3246 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
3249 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
3250 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
3251 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
3254 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
3255 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3256 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3258 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
3259 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
3260 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
3261 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
3262 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
3263 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3265 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
3266 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
3267 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
3268 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3271 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3272 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
3273 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
3274 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
3275 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3277 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3278 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
3279 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
3280 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
3281 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
3282 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3284 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
3285 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
3286 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
3287 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3289 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
3290 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3291 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3293 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3294 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3295 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3297 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3298 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3299 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3300 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3302 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3303 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3304 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3305 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
3306 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3308 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
3309 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
3310 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
3311 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3313 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
3314 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
3315 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
3316 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
3317 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3319 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
3320 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
3321 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
3322 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
3323 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
3326 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3327 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3328 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
3330 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3331 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3332 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3333 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3334 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
3335 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
3338 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
3339 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3340 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3342 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
3343 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3344 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3347 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
3348 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3349 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3350 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3351 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3352 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3354 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3355 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
3356 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
3357 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
3358 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3360 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
3361 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3362 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3363 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3364 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3365 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3366 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3367 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3368 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3369 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3371 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3372 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
3373 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
3374 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
3375 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
3376 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
3377 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
3379 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
3383 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
3384 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3385 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
3386 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
3387 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
3388 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
3389 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
3390 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
3392 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3393 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3394 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
3395 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
3396 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
3397 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
3398 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
3399 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
3400 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
3401 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
3402 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3403 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3404 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3407 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
3408 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
3409 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
3410 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
3411 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
3412 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
3414 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
3418 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
3419 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
3420 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3421 Closes ticket 32500.
3422 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
3423 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
3424 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
3425 Closes ticket 30967.
3427 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
3428 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
3429 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
3430 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
3431 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
3432 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
3433 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
3434 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
3435 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
3436 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
3437 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
3438 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
3439 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
3440 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
3441 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
3442 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
3444 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3445 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
3446 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
3447 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
3448 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
3449 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
3450 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
3451 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
3452 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
3453 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
3455 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
3456 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
3457 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
3459 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
3460 Closes ticket 30806.
3461 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
3462 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
3465 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
3466 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
3467 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
3469 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
3470 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
3471 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3473 o Testing (continuous integration):
3474 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3475 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3476 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3477 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3478 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3479 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3480 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3481 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3482 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3485 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
3486 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3487 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
3488 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3490 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3491 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3492 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3493 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3495 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3496 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3497 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3498 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3500 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3501 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3502 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3503 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3504 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3505 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3506 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3507 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3509 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3510 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3511 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3512 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3513 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3515 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3516 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3517 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3518 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3519 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3522 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3523 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3524 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3525 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3527 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3528 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3529 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3531 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3532 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3533 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3535 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3536 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3537 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3538 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3539 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3540 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3542 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3543 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3544 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3545 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3547 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3548 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3549 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3550 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3551 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3552 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3553 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3554 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3555 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3556 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3559 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3560 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
3561 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3562 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
3563 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3564 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3565 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3566 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3567 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3569 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3570 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3571 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3572 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3574 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3575 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3576 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3577 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3578 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3581 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3582 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
3583 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
3585 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3586 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3587 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3589 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3590 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3591 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3593 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3594 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3595 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3596 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3598 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3599 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3600 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3601 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3602 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3604 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3605 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
3606 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3608 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3609 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3610 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3613 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3614 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
3615 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
3617 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3618 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3619 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3620 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3622 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3623 Closes ticket 31859.
3624 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3625 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3627 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3628 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3629 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3630 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3631 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3632 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3633 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3634 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3635 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3636 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3638 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3639 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3640 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
3641 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
3642 Closes ticket 32500.
3645 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
3646 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
3647 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
3648 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
3649 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
3651 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
3652 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
3653 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
3654 support until 1 Feb 2022.
3656 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
3657 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3660 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3661 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3662 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3663 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3664 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3665 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3666 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3667 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3668 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3669 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3670 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3672 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3673 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3674 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3675 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3676 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3677 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3679 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3680 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3681 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3682 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3683 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3686 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3687 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3688 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3689 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3690 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3692 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3693 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3694 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3695 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3698 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3699 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3700 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3701 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3702 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3703 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3704 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3705 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3707 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3708 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3709 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3710 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3711 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3713 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3714 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3715 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3716 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3717 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3720 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3721 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3722 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3724 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3725 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3726 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3729 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3730 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3731 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3733 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3734 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3735 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3736 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3738 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3739 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3740 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3741 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3742 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3744 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3745 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3746 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3748 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3749 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3750 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3753 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3754 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
3755 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3757 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3758 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3759 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3761 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3762 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3763 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3765 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3766 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3767 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3770 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3771 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
3772 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
3773 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
3774 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
3775 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3777 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3778 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3779 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3780 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3781 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3783 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3784 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3785 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3788 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3789 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3790 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3792 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3793 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3794 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3795 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3797 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3798 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3799 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3800 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3802 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3803 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3804 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3805 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3807 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
3808 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
3809 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
3810 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3812 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3813 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3814 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3815 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3816 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3817 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3818 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3820 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3821 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3822 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3823 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3825 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
3826 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3827 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3828 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3830 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3831 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3832 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3835 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3836 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3837 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3838 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3839 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3840 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3841 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3843 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3844 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3845 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3846 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3849 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3850 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3851 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3852 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3853 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3855 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3856 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3857 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3858 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3859 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3861 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3862 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3863 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3866 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3867 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
3868 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
3869 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
3870 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3872 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3873 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
3874 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
3875 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3877 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3878 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
3879 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
3880 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
3881 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
3884 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3885 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3886 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3889 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
3890 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
3891 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
3892 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3894 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3895 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3896 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3897 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3899 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3900 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3901 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3902 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3904 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3905 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3906 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3907 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3910 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3911 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3912 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3913 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3914 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3915 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3918 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3919 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
3920 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
3922 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
3923 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
3924 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3926 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
3927 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
3928 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
3929 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3931 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3932 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3933 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3935 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3936 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
3937 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
3938 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
3939 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3941 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3942 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
3943 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
3946 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3947 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3948 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3949 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3950 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3951 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3952 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3953 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3954 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3955 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3957 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
3958 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3959 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3960 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3962 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
3963 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3964 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3965 Resolves issue 29702.
3967 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
3968 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3970 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
3971 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3972 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3973 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3976 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
3977 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3978 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3979 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3981 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3982 Closes ticket 31859.
3983 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3984 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3986 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3987 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
3988 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
3989 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
3990 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
3991 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
3992 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
3993 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
3994 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
3995 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
3997 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
3998 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
3999 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4000 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4001 Closes ticket 32500.
4004 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
4005 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
4006 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
4009 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4010 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4013 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4014 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4015 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4016 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4017 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4018 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4019 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4020 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4021 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4022 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4023 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4025 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4026 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4027 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4028 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4029 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4030 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4032 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4033 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4034 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4035 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4036 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4037 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4039 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4040 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4041 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4042 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4043 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4046 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4047 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4048 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4049 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4050 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4052 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4053 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4054 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4055 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4058 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4059 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4060 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4061 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4062 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4064 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4065 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4066 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4067 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4068 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4071 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4072 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4073 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4074 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4075 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4076 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4077 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4078 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4080 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4081 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4082 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4083 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4084 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4087 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4088 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4089 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4091 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4092 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4093 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4096 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4097 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4098 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4099 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4101 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4102 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4103 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4106 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4107 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4108 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4110 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4111 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4112 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4113 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4115 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4116 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4117 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4118 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4119 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4121 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4122 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4123 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4125 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4126 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4127 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4128 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4130 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4131 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4132 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4135 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4136 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4137 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4138 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4139 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4140 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4141 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4142 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4143 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4144 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4145 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4146 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4147 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4150 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4151 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4152 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4153 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4154 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4156 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4157 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4158 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4160 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4161 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4162 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4164 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4165 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4166 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4168 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4169 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4170 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4173 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4174 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4175 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4177 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4178 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4179 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4180 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4181 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4182 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4184 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4185 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4186 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4187 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4188 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4190 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4191 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4192 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4196 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4197 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4199 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4200 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4201 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4204 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4205 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4206 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4208 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4209 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4210 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4211 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4213 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4214 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4215 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4216 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4218 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4219 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4220 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4221 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4223 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4224 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4225 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4226 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4227 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4228 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4229 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4231 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4232 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4233 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4234 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4236 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4237 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4238 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4239 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4241 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4242 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4243 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4246 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4247 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4248 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4249 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4250 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4251 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4252 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4254 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4255 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4256 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4257 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4260 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4261 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4262 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4263 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4264 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4266 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4267 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4268 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4270 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4271 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4272 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4273 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4274 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4275 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4276 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4277 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4278 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4279 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4280 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4282 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4283 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4284 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4285 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4286 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4288 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4289 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4290 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4293 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4294 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4295 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4296 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4297 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4299 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4300 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4301 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4302 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4304 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4305 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4306 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4307 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4308 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4311 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4312 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4313 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4316 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4317 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4318 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4319 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4321 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4322 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4323 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4324 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4326 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4327 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4328 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4330 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4331 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4332 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4333 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4335 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4336 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4337 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4338 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4341 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4342 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4343 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4344 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4345 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4346 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4349 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4350 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4351 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4352 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4354 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4355 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4356 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4358 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4359 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4360 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4362 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4363 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4364 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4365 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4366 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4367 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4368 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4370 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4371 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4372 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4375 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4376 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4377 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4378 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4379 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4380 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4381 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4382 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4384 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4385 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4386 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4387 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4388 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4389 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4392 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4393 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4394 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4395 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4396 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4398 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4399 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4400 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4401 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4402 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4403 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4404 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4405 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4407 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4408 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4409 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4412 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4413 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4414 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4415 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4416 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4417 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4418 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4419 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4420 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4421 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4423 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4424 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4425 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4426 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4427 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4428 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4430 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4431 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4432 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4433 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4435 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4436 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4437 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4438 Resolves issue 29702.
4440 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4441 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4443 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4444 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4445 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4446 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4449 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4450 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4451 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4452 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4454 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4455 Closes ticket 31859.
4456 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4457 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4459 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4460 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4461 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4462 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4463 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4464 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4465 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4466 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4467 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4468 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4470 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4471 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4472 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4473 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4474 Closes ticket 32500.
4477 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
4478 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4479 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4480 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
4483 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4484 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4485 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4486 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4487 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4488 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4489 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4490 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4491 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4493 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4494 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4495 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4498 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4499 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4500 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4503 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4504 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4505 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4506 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4508 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4509 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4510 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4512 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4513 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4514 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
4515 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4517 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4518 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4519 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4520 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4523 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4524 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4525 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4526 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4527 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4529 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4530 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4531 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4534 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4535 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4536 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4538 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4539 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4540 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4541 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4542 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4543 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4545 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4546 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4547 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4548 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4549 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4550 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4551 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4552 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4553 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4554 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4556 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4557 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4558 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4559 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4562 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
4563 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
4564 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
4565 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
4566 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
4567 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
4568 bugfixes on earlier versions.
4570 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
4571 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
4572 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4573 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4575 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
4576 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4578 o Directory authority changes:
4579 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4582 o Major features (circuit padding):
4583 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
4584 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
4585 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
4586 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
4587 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
4588 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
4589 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
4590 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
4591 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
4593 o Major features (code organization):
4594 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
4595 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
4596 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
4597 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
4600 o Major features (controller protocol):
4601 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
4602 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
4603 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
4604 Closes ticket 30091.
4606 o Major features (flow control):
4607 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
4608 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
4609 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
4610 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
4611 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
4612 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
4613 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
4615 o Major features (performance):
4616 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
4617 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
4618 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
4620 o Major features (performance, RNG):
4621 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
4622 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
4623 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
4624 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
4625 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
4626 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
4627 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
4628 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
4630 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
4631 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4632 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4633 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4634 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4635 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4636 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4637 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4638 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4639 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4640 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4642 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4643 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4644 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4646 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4647 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4648 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4649 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4650 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4652 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
4653 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4654 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4655 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4656 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4659 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
4660 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4661 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4662 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4663 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4665 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4666 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4667 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4668 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4671 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
4672 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
4673 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
4674 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
4675 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
4676 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
4679 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
4680 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
4681 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
4682 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
4684 o Minor features (circuit padding):
4685 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
4687 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
4688 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
4689 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
4690 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
4691 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4692 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
4693 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
4695 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
4696 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4697 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4699 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4700 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4701 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4702 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
4703 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
4705 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4706 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4708 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4710 o Minor features (controller):
4711 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
4712 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
4713 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4715 o Minor features (debugging):
4716 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
4717 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
4718 can use format strings to include information for trouble
4719 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
4721 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4722 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
4723 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
4724 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
4725 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
4726 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
4727 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
4728 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
4729 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
4730 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
4732 o Minor features (developer tools):
4733 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
4734 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
4735 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
4736 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
4737 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
4739 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
4740 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
4742 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
4743 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
4745 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4746 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4747 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4748 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4749 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4751 o Minor features (geoip):
4752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4753 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
4754 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4755 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
4757 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
4758 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
4759 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
4761 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
4762 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
4763 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
4764 addresses. Implements 26992.
4766 o Minor features (logging):
4767 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
4768 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
4769 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
4770 Closes ticket 30686.
4772 o Minor features (maintenance):
4773 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
4774 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
4775 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
4777 o Minor features (modularity):
4778 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
4779 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
4781 o Minor features (performance):
4782 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
4783 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
4784 Closes ticket 28837.
4786 o Minor features (testing):
4787 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
4788 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
4789 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
4790 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
4792 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
4793 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
4794 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
4795 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
4796 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
4797 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
4798 Implements ticket 29732.
4799 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
4800 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
4802 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
4803 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
4805 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
4806 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
4807 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
4808 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
4809 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4810 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4812 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
4813 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
4814 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
4815 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
4818 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4819 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4821 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
4822 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
4823 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4824 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
4825 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
4826 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
4827 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4828 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
4829 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
4830 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4831 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
4832 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4833 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
4834 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
4835 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4836 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
4837 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
4838 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4840 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
4841 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4842 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4843 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4844 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4846 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
4847 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
4848 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
4849 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
4850 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
4851 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
4854 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4855 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
4858 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4859 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4860 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4862 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
4863 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4864 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4865 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4867 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
4868 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4869 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4870 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4872 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4873 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4874 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4875 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4876 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4877 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4878 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4880 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4881 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
4882 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
4883 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
4884 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
4886 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
4887 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4888 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4889 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4891 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4892 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
4893 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
4896 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4897 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4898 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4899 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4900 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4901 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4903 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
4904 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
4905 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4907 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4908 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
4909 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4910 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
4911 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
4912 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
4914 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
4915 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
4917 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4918 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4919 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4920 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4921 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4922 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
4923 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
4926 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4927 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4928 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4930 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
4931 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
4934 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
4935 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4936 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4937 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4939 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4940 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4941 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4942 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4943 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
4944 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
4945 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
4946 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
4948 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
4949 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
4950 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4951 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
4952 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
4953 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
4954 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4956 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
4957 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
4958 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
4959 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
4960 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
4961 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4963 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
4964 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4965 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4966 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4969 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4970 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
4971 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
4972 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
4973 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4975 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4976 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
4977 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4980 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4981 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4982 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4983 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4984 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4987 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
4988 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
4989 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
4992 o Minor bugfixes (python):
4993 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
4994 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
4995 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4997 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4998 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
4999 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
5000 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
5001 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5003 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
5004 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
5005 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
5006 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
5008 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5009 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
5010 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
5011 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
5012 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5014 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5015 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
5016 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
5017 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5018 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
5019 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5020 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
5021 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5022 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
5023 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
5024 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
5025 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
5026 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5028 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5029 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
5030 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
5031 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
5032 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5034 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5035 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
5036 port. Implements ticket 30007.
5037 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
5038 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
5039 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
5040 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
5041 string to directory connection with or without compression.
5042 Resolves issue 28816.
5043 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
5044 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
5045 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
5046 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
5047 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
5048 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
5049 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
5050 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
5051 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
5052 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
5053 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
5054 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
5055 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
5056 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
5057 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
5058 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
5059 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5060 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
5061 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5062 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
5063 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
5064 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
5065 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
5066 Closes ticket 29894.
5067 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
5068 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
5069 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
5070 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
5073 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
5074 Closes ticket 30630.
5075 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
5076 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
5080 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
5081 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
5082 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
5083 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
5087 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5088 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5089 Resolves issue 29702.
5091 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5092 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
5093 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
5094 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
5095 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
5096 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
5097 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
5098 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
5099 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
5100 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
5101 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
5104 o Testing (chutney):
5105 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
5106 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
5107 Closes ticket 27251.
5109 o Testing (continuous integration):
5110 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
5111 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5112 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
5113 Closes ticket 30694.
5116 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
5117 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
5118 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
5119 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
5120 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
5121 long-term maintainability.
5123 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
5124 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
5125 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5126 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5128 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
5129 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5131 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
5132 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
5133 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
5134 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
5135 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
5136 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
5138 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
5139 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
5141 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
5142 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
5145 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
5146 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
5147 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
5148 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
5149 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
5150 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
5151 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
5152 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
5153 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
5156 o Major features (circuit padding):
5157 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
5158 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
5159 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
5160 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
5161 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
5162 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
5163 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
5164 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
5167 o Major features (refactoring):
5168 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
5169 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
5170 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
5171 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
5174 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5175 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5176 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5177 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5178 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5179 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5180 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5181 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5183 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5184 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5185 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5186 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5187 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5189 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
5190 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5191 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5192 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5193 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5194 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5196 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
5197 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
5198 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
5199 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
5200 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
5201 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
5202 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5204 o Minor features (address selection):
5205 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5206 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5207 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5208 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5209 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5210 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5211 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5213 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
5214 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5215 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5216 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5217 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5219 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
5220 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
5221 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
5224 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
5225 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
5226 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
5227 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
5228 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
5231 o Minor features (compilation):
5232 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5233 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5234 Patches from "Mangix".
5236 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5237 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5238 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5240 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
5242 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5243 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5244 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5246 o Minor features (controller):
5247 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
5248 Implements ticket 28843.
5250 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5251 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
5252 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
5253 release. Closes ticket 27761.
5254 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
5255 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
5256 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
5258 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
5259 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
5260 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
5262 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5263 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
5264 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
5267 o Minor features (directory authority):
5268 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
5269 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
5270 Closes ticket 26698.
5271 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
5272 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
5273 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
5274 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
5277 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
5278 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
5279 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
5280 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
5281 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
5282 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
5283 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
5285 o Minor features (dormant mode):
5286 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
5287 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
5288 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
5289 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
5290 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
5291 background. Closes ticket 29357.
5293 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5294 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
5295 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
5297 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
5298 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
5299 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
5300 Closes ticket 28518.
5302 o Minor features (geoip):
5303 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5304 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
5306 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
5307 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
5308 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
5309 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
5311 o Minor features (IPv6):
5312 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
5313 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
5314 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
5315 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
5316 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
5317 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5318 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
5319 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
5320 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
5321 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5323 o Minor features (log messages):
5324 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
5325 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
5328 o Minor features (memory usage):
5329 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
5330 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
5331 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
5332 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
5333 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
5335 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
5336 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5337 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5338 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5340 o Minor features (parsing):
5341 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
5342 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
5343 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
5345 o Minor features (performance):
5346 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
5347 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
5348 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
5349 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
5351 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
5352 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
5353 Closes ticket 28852.
5354 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
5355 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
5356 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
5357 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
5358 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
5359 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
5361 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
5362 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
5363 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
5364 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
5365 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
5367 o Minor features (process management):
5368 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
5369 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
5370 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
5371 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
5372 module. Closes ticket 28847.
5374 o Minor features (relay):
5375 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
5376 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
5377 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
5379 o Minor features (required protocols):
5380 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
5381 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
5382 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
5383 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
5384 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
5385 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
5386 297; closes ticket 27735.
5388 o Minor features (testing):
5389 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5391 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
5392 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
5393 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
5394 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
5397 o Minor bugfixes (security):
5398 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5399 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5400 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5401 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5402 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5403 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5404 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5405 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5407 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5408 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5409 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5410 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5412 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
5413 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5414 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5415 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5416 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5418 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5419 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5420 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5422 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
5423 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5424 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5425 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5427 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5428 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5429 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5432 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
5433 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
5434 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5435 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5436 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5439 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5440 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
5441 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5442 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5443 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5444 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5445 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5446 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5448 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
5449 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5450 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5452 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
5453 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
5454 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
5455 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5457 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
5458 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
5459 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
5460 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
5461 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5463 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5464 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5465 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5466 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5468 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5469 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
5470 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
5471 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
5472 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
5473 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
5474 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5476 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
5477 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5478 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5479 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5482 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5483 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
5484 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5486 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5487 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5488 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5489 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5490 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5491 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5492 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5493 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5494 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5495 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5496 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5497 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5498 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5499 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5500 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5501 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5502 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5503 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5504 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5505 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5506 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5507 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5509 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5510 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5511 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5512 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5513 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5514 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5516 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
5517 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5518 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5519 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5520 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5522 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5523 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
5524 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
5525 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5527 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
5528 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5529 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5530 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5531 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5532 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5534 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5535 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5536 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5538 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5539 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5540 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5542 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5543 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5544 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5545 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
5548 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
5549 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
5550 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5552 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5553 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
5554 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
5555 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
5556 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
5558 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5559 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5560 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5562 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
5563 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
5564 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
5565 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
5566 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
5569 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5570 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
5571 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
5572 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5574 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
5575 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5576 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5577 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5578 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5579 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5580 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5582 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5583 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5584 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5587 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5588 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5589 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5590 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5591 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5592 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5594 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5595 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5596 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5597 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5598 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5599 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5600 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5601 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
5602 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5603 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
5604 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5605 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
5606 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
5607 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
5608 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5609 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5610 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5611 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5612 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5614 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
5615 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
5616 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
5617 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5618 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
5619 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
5621 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
5622 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5623 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5624 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5625 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5626 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5627 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5628 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5630 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
5631 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
5632 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5634 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
5635 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5636 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5637 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5638 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5640 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
5641 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5642 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5643 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5644 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5645 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5647 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5648 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
5649 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
5650 Resolves issue 28816.
5651 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
5652 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
5653 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
5654 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
5655 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
5657 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
5658 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
5659 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
5660 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
5661 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
5662 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
5663 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
5664 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
5668 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
5669 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
5670 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
5671 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
5672 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
5673 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
5674 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
5675 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
5676 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
5678 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
5681 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
5682 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
5683 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
5684 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
5685 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
5686 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
5687 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
5688 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
5691 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
5693 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
5694 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
5696 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
5697 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
5698 code from client and service into one function. Closes
5701 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
5702 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
5704 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
5705 Resolves ticket 28006.
5706 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
5707 Resolves ticket 28012.
5708 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
5709 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
5710 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
5711 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
5715 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
5716 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
5717 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
5720 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5721 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5722 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5724 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5725 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5726 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5727 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5728 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5729 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5730 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5731 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5733 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5734 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
5735 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
5736 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
5737 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5739 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5740 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
5741 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
5742 Patches from "Mangix".
5744 o Minor features (geoip):
5745 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5746 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5748 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5749 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
5752 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5753 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
5754 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
5755 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
5756 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
5757 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5759 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5760 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
5761 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
5762 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
5765 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5766 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5767 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5768 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5770 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5771 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
5772 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
5775 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5776 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
5777 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
5778 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5780 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5781 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
5782 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
5783 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
5785 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5786 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
5787 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
5788 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
5789 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
5790 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
5792 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5793 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
5794 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
5795 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
5796 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5798 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5799 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
5800 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
5801 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
5802 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5804 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5805 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
5806 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
5808 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
5809 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
5810 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
5812 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5813 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5814 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5815 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5817 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5818 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
5819 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
5821 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5822 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
5823 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5824 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
5825 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
5828 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
5829 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
5830 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
5831 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
5832 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5835 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
5836 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
5837 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
5838 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
5839 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5841 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5842 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5843 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5844 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5845 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5846 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5847 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5848 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5850 o Minor features (geoip):
5851 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5852 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5854 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5855 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5856 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5857 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5859 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5860 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5861 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5862 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5863 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5866 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
5867 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
5868 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
5869 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
5871 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
5872 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
5873 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
5874 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5876 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
5877 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
5878 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
5879 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
5880 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
5881 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
5882 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
5883 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
5885 o Minor features (geoip):
5886 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5887 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
5889 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5890 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
5891 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
5892 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
5894 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5895 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
5896 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
5897 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
5898 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
5901 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
5902 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5903 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
5904 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
5905 to this version, or to a later series.
5907 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
5908 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
5909 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
5910 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
5911 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
5912 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
5914 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5915 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5916 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5917 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5918 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5921 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5922 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5923 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5924 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5926 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5927 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5928 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5929 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5930 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5931 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5932 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5933 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5935 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5936 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5937 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5938 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5940 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5941 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5942 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5943 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5944 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5946 o Minor features (geoip):
5947 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5948 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5950 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5951 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5952 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5953 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5954 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5955 Closes ticket 28973.
5957 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5958 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5959 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5960 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5962 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5963 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5964 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5967 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5968 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5969 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5972 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5973 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5974 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5976 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5977 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5978 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5979 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5981 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5982 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5983 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5984 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5985 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5986 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5989 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5990 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5991 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5994 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5995 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5996 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5997 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5998 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6000 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6001 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6002 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6003 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6004 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6006 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6007 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6008 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6009 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6010 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6011 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6013 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6014 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
6015 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
6018 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6019 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6020 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6022 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6023 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6024 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6026 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6027 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6028 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6031 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6032 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6033 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6034 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6035 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6036 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6037 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6038 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6040 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6041 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6042 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6043 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6045 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6046 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6047 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6048 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6049 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6050 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6051 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6052 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6053 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6054 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6056 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6057 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6058 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6059 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6060 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6061 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6063 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6064 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6065 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6066 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6067 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6069 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6070 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6071 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6074 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
6075 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6076 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
6077 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
6080 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
6081 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
6082 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
6085 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6086 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6087 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6088 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6089 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6092 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6093 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6094 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6095 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6096 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6097 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6098 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6100 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6101 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6102 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6105 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6106 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6107 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6108 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6109 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6112 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6113 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6114 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6115 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6116 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6118 o Minor features (geoip):
6119 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6120 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
6122 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6123 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6124 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6125 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6126 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6127 Closes ticket 28973.
6129 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6130 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6131 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6132 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6134 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6135 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6136 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6137 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6138 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6141 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6142 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6143 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6144 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6146 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6147 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6148 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6150 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6151 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6152 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6153 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6155 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6156 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6157 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6158 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6159 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6160 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6163 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6164 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6165 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6168 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6169 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6170 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6171 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6173 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6174 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6175 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6176 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6177 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6178 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6180 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6181 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6182 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6183 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6185 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6186 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6187 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6190 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
6191 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6192 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
6193 affecting directory caches.
6195 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
6196 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
6197 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
6198 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
6199 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
6200 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
6201 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
6202 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
6204 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
6205 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
6206 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
6207 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
6208 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
6209 so it will recognize them.
6211 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
6212 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
6213 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
6214 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
6215 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
6216 with the latest stable release.)
6218 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
6219 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6221 o Major features (bootstrap):
6222 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
6223 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
6224 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
6225 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
6227 o Major features (new code layout):
6228 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
6229 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
6230 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
6231 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
6232 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
6233 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
6234 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
6236 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
6237 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
6238 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
6240 o Major features (onion services v3):
6241 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
6242 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
6243 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
6244 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
6245 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
6246 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
6247 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
6248 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
6249 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
6250 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
6251 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
6252 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
6253 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
6254 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
6255 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
6256 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
6257 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
6258 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
6260 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
6261 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
6262 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
6263 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
6264 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
6265 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
6267 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
6268 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
6269 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
6270 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
6271 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
6272 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
6273 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
6275 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
6276 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
6277 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
6278 (if present), and restart Tor.
6280 o Major features (relay, UI change):
6281 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
6282 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
6283 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
6284 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
6285 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6286 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
6287 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
6289 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
6290 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6291 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6293 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
6294 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
6295 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
6296 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
6297 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
6298 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6300 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6301 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
6302 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
6303 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
6306 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
6307 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
6308 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
6309 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
6310 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6312 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
6313 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6314 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6315 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6316 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6318 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6319 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
6320 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
6321 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
6322 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
6323 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
6325 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
6326 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6327 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6328 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6329 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6332 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
6333 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
6334 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
6335 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
6336 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
6337 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6339 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6340 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6341 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6342 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6343 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6345 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
6346 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
6347 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
6348 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
6349 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
6350 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
6352 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
6353 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6354 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6355 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6357 o Minor features (admin tools):
6358 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
6359 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
6362 o Minor features (build):
6363 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
6364 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
6365 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
6366 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
6368 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
6369 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
6370 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
6371 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
6372 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
6374 o Minor features (code layout):
6375 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
6376 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
6377 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
6378 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
6381 o Minor features (compilation):
6382 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
6383 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
6384 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
6385 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
6386 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
6387 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
6390 o Minor features (config):
6391 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
6394 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6395 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
6397 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
6398 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
6399 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6400 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6401 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6402 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
6403 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
6405 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6406 Implements ticket 27252.
6407 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6408 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6409 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6410 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6411 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6412 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6413 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6414 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6415 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6417 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
6418 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
6419 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
6421 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
6422 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
6424 o Minor features (controller):
6425 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
6426 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
6427 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
6428 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
6429 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6430 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6431 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6432 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6434 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
6435 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
6436 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
6437 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
6439 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
6440 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
6441 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
6442 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6444 o Minor features (development):
6445 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
6446 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
6448 o Minor features (directory authority):
6449 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
6450 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
6451 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
6452 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
6454 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
6455 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
6458 o Minor features (embedding API):
6459 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
6460 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
6461 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
6462 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
6463 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
6464 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
6467 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6468 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6469 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6470 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6471 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6473 o Minor features (geoip):
6474 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6475 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6477 o Minor features (memory management):
6478 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
6479 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
6482 o Minor features (memory usage):
6483 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
6484 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
6485 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
6487 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
6488 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6489 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6490 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6491 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6492 Closes ticket 28973.
6494 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
6495 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
6496 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
6498 o Minor features (performance):
6499 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
6500 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
6501 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
6502 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
6503 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
6504 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
6505 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
6506 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
6507 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
6508 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
6510 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
6511 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
6512 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
6513 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
6515 o Minor features (testing):
6516 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
6517 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
6519 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
6520 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
6521 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
6523 o Minor features (UI):
6524 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
6525 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
6526 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
6527 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
6528 Closes ticket 26703.
6530 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
6531 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6532 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6533 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6534 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6536 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6537 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6538 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6539 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6540 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6543 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
6544 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
6545 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
6546 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6548 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6549 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
6550 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
6551 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6552 - Use time_t for all values in
6553 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
6554 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
6555 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6557 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
6558 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
6559 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
6560 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
6561 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
6564 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
6565 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
6566 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
6567 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
6568 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
6569 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6571 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6572 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
6573 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
6574 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6576 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
6577 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6578 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6581 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6582 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6583 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6584 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6586 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6587 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
6588 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
6591 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
6592 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
6593 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
6594 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
6595 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
6597 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
6598 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
6599 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
6600 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
6601 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
6604 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
6605 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6606 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6607 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6608 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6609 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6610 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6611 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
6612 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
6613 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
6614 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
6615 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
6616 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
6618 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
6619 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
6620 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6622 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6623 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
6624 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
6625 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
6626 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
6629 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6630 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
6631 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
6632 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
6633 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6635 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
6636 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6637 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6639 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
6640 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6641 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6642 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6643 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6644 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6647 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6648 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6649 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6652 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6653 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
6654 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
6655 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
6656 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6658 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6659 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
6660 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
6663 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6664 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
6665 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
6667 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
6668 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
6669 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
6670 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6671 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
6672 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6674 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
6675 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
6676 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
6677 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
6678 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6680 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6681 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6682 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6683 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
6684 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6686 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
6687 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6688 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6690 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
6691 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
6692 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
6693 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
6696 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6697 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6698 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6699 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6700 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6701 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6702 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
6703 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
6704 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
6706 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
6707 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
6709 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
6710 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
6711 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
6712 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
6713 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6714 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6715 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6716 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6717 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6718 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6719 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6721 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
6722 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
6723 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
6724 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6726 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
6727 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
6728 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
6729 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
6730 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
6732 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
6733 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
6734 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
6735 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
6737 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
6738 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6739 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6742 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
6743 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
6745 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6746 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6747 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6748 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6749 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6750 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6751 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6752 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6753 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6754 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6756 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
6757 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
6758 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
6759 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
6760 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6762 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6763 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6764 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6765 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6768 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
6769 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
6770 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
6771 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
6772 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6773 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6774 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
6775 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
6776 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6778 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6779 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
6780 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
6781 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6782 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
6783 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6784 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
6785 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
6786 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
6788 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
6789 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
6790 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6791 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
6792 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6793 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6794 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6795 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6796 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6797 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6798 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
6799 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
6800 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6801 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
6802 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6804 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
6805 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
6806 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
6807 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
6808 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
6809 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
6810 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
6811 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
6813 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
6814 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
6815 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
6816 reported by Keifer Bly.
6818 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6819 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
6820 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
6822 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
6823 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
6824 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
6825 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
6826 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
6827 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
6828 Closes ticket 27814.
6829 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
6830 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
6831 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
6832 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
6833 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
6834 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
6835 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
6836 Closes ticket 27799.
6837 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
6838 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
6839 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
6840 directory within the top-level src directory.
6841 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
6842 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
6843 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
6844 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
6845 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
6846 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
6847 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
6848 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
6849 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
6850 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
6851 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
6852 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
6853 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
6854 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
6855 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
6856 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
6857 Closes ticket 21349.
6858 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
6859 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
6860 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
6861 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
6862 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
6863 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
6864 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
6866 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
6867 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
6868 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
6871 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
6872 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
6873 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
6874 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
6875 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
6876 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
6877 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
6878 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
6879 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
6882 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
6883 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
6884 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
6885 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
6886 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
6887 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
6888 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
6889 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
6890 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
6891 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
6892 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
6893 Closes ticket 26367.
6896 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
6897 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
6899 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
6900 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
6901 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
6902 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
6903 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
6904 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
6905 Closes ticket 19566.
6907 o Documentation (onion services):
6908 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
6909 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
6910 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
6911 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
6912 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
6913 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
6914 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
6915 process. Closes ticket 28275.
6918 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
6919 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
6920 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
6921 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
6922 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
6924 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6925 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
6926 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6928 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6929 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
6930 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
6931 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
6932 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6934 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6935 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
6936 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
6937 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
6938 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
6941 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6942 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6943 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6944 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6946 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6947 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6948 Implements ticket 27252.
6949 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6950 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6951 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6952 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6953 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6954 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6955 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6957 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6958 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6959 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6960 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6962 o Minor features (geoip):
6963 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6964 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
6966 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6967 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
6968 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
6969 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
6970 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6972 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
6973 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
6974 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6975 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
6976 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
6979 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6980 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6981 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6984 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6985 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
6986 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
6987 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
6988 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6990 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6991 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6992 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6994 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6995 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6996 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6998 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6999 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7000 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7001 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7003 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7004 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7005 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7007 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7008 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7009 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7012 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7013 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7014 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7016 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7017 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7018 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7021 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7022 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7023 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7024 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7025 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7027 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7028 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7029 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7030 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7031 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7032 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7034 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7035 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7036 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7039 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7040 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7041 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7042 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7043 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7044 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7045 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7046 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7048 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7049 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7050 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7051 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7053 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7054 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7055 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7056 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7057 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7059 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7060 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7061 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7062 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7063 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7064 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7066 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7067 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7068 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7069 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7070 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7071 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7073 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7074 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7075 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7076 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7079 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7080 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7081 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7082 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7083 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7086 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
7087 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
7089 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7090 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7091 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7092 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7094 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7095 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7097 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7098 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7099 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7100 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7102 o Minor features (geoip):
7103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7104 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7106 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7107 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7108 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7109 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7111 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7112 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7113 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7114 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7115 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7116 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7117 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7118 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7121 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7122 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7123 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7124 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7126 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7127 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7128 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7129 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7131 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7132 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7133 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7134 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7136 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7137 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7138 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7139 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7140 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7142 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7143 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7144 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7147 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7148 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7149 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7150 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7151 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7153 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7154 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7155 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7158 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7159 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7160 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7161 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7163 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7164 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7165 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7167 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7168 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7169 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7172 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7173 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7174 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7175 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7176 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7178 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7179 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7180 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7183 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
7184 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7186 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7187 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7188 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7189 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7191 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7192 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7194 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7195 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7196 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7197 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7199 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7200 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7203 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7204 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7205 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7206 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7208 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7209 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7210 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7211 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7213 o Minor features (geoip):
7214 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7215 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7217 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7218 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7219 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7220 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7221 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7222 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7223 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7226 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7227 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7228 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7229 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7230 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7231 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7232 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7235 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7236 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7237 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7238 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7240 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7241 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7242 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7243 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7245 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7246 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7247 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7248 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7249 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7251 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7252 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7253 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7254 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7255 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7257 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7258 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7259 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7262 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7263 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7264 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7265 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7266 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7268 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7269 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7270 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7273 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7274 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7275 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7278 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7279 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7280 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7283 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7284 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7286 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7287 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7288 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7289 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7291 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7292 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7293 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7294 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7297 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7298 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7300 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7301 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7302 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7303 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7304 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7305 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7306 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7309 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7310 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
7311 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
7312 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
7313 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7315 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7316 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7317 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7318 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7319 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7321 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7322 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7323 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7326 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
7327 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7329 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7330 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7331 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7332 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7334 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7335 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7336 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7337 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7339 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7340 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7341 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7343 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7344 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7345 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7346 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7348 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7349 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7352 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7353 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7354 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7355 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7357 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7358 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7359 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7360 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7362 o Minor features (geoip):
7363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7364 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7366 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7367 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7368 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7369 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7370 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7371 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7372 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7374 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7375 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7376 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7377 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7378 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7379 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7380 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7381 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7385 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7386 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7387 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7389 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7390 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7391 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7392 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7394 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7395 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7396 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
7397 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
7398 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7400 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7401 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
7402 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7403 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
7404 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
7406 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7407 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7408 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7411 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7412 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7413 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7414 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7416 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7417 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7418 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7419 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7420 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7422 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7423 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7424 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7427 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7428 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7429 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7432 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7433 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7434 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7437 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7438 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7439 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7440 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7442 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7443 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7444 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7447 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7448 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7450 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
7451 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7452 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7453 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7454 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7455 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7456 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7458 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7459 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7460 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7461 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7462 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7464 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7465 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
7466 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
7467 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7469 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7470 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7471 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7473 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
7474 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7475 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7476 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7477 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7478 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7479 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7482 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7483 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7484 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7485 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7486 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7488 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
7489 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7490 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7491 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7492 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7494 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
7495 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7496 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7499 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
7500 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7501 compilation and portability fixes.
7503 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
7504 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
7505 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
7506 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
7507 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
7508 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
7509 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
7510 our anti-denial-of-service code.
7512 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
7513 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7515 o New system requirements:
7516 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
7517 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
7518 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
7519 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
7521 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
7522 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
7523 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
7524 To disable the module, the configure option
7525 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
7526 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
7528 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
7529 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
7530 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
7531 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
7532 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
7533 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
7534 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
7535 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
7536 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
7537 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
7538 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
7540 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
7541 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
7542 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
7543 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
7544 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
7545 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
7546 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
7547 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
7548 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
7549 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
7550 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
7551 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
7552 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
7553 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
7554 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
7555 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
7556 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
7557 Tor's uptime (26009).
7559 o Minor features (accounting):
7560 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
7561 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
7562 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
7563 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
7565 o Minor features (bug workaround):
7566 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
7567 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
7568 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
7570 o Minor features (code quality):
7571 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
7572 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
7573 Closes ticket 25024.
7575 o Minor features (compatibility):
7576 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
7577 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
7578 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
7579 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
7580 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
7581 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
7583 o Minor features (compilation):
7584 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
7585 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
7586 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7587 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7588 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7589 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7590 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7591 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7594 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
7595 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
7596 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
7597 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
7598 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
7599 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
7601 o Minor features (configuration):
7602 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
7603 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
7604 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
7605 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
7606 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
7608 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7609 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
7610 Implements ticket 27449.
7611 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
7612 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
7614 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
7615 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7617 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7618 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7619 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
7620 Implements ticket 27275.
7621 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
7622 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
7623 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
7624 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
7625 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
7627 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
7628 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
7631 o Minor features (control port):
7632 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
7633 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
7634 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
7635 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7636 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
7637 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
7638 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
7639 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
7640 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
7641 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
7643 o Minor features (controller):
7644 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7645 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7646 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7648 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7649 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
7650 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
7651 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
7652 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
7653 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
7654 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
7656 o Minor features (directory authority):
7657 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7658 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7659 Closes ticket 23909.
7661 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7662 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7663 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7664 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7666 o Minor features (entry guards):
7667 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7668 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7670 o Minor features (geoip):
7671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7672 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
7674 o Minor features (performance):
7675 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7676 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7677 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7678 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7680 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7681 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7683 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
7684 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
7686 o Minor features (testing):
7687 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7688 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7690 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7691 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7692 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7693 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7694 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7695 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7697 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7698 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7699 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7700 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7701 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7703 o Minor features (unit tests):
7704 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
7705 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
7706 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
7709 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7710 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7711 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7712 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7713 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7714 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7716 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7717 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7718 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7719 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7721 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7722 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7723 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7724 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7725 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7727 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7728 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
7729 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
7730 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
7731 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
7732 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
7733 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
7734 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
7736 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7737 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7738 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7739 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7740 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
7741 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
7742 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7743 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
7744 Closes ticket 26245.
7745 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
7746 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
7747 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7749 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
7750 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
7751 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
7752 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7754 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7755 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7756 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7757 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7758 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7760 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7761 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7762 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7763 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7764 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7765 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
7766 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
7767 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7768 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7769 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7770 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7771 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7773 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
7774 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
7775 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
7778 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7779 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7780 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7783 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7784 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7785 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7786 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7787 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7788 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7791 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7792 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7793 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7794 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7795 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7796 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7797 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7799 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
7800 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
7801 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
7802 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7804 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7805 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
7806 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
7807 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
7808 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
7810 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7811 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7812 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7815 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7816 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
7817 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
7819 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
7820 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
7822 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
7823 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
7824 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
7825 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
7826 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7828 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7829 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
7830 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
7832 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7833 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7834 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7835 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7836 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7839 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7840 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7841 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7842 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7844 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7845 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7846 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7847 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7848 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7849 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7850 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7852 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7853 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
7855 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
7856 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
7857 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7858 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
7859 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
7861 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
7862 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7863 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
7864 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
7865 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7867 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7868 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
7869 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
7870 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7873 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7874 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7875 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7878 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7879 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7880 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7881 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7882 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7883 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7884 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7885 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7886 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7887 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7889 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7890 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7891 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7892 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7893 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7894 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7895 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7897 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7898 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7899 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7900 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7901 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7903 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7904 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7905 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7908 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
7909 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
7910 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
7911 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
7912 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7914 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
7915 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
7916 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
7917 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
7918 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7919 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
7920 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
7923 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
7924 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
7925 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
7926 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
7927 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7929 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7930 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7931 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7932 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7933 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7935 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7936 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7937 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7938 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7939 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7940 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7942 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
7943 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
7944 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7946 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7947 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7948 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7949 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7950 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7951 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7952 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7953 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7955 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7956 confusing we renamed some functions and
7957 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7958 router_should_check_reachability() and
7959 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7960 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7961 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7962 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7963 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7965 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7966 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7968 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7969 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7970 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7971 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7972 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7973 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7974 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7975 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7976 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7977 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7978 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7979 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7980 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7981 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7982 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7983 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7984 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7985 Closes ticket 25766.
7986 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7987 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7988 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7989 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7990 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7991 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7992 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7993 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7994 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7995 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7996 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7997 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7998 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7999 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
8001 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
8002 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
8003 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
8004 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
8005 before. Closes ticket 26016.
8006 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
8007 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
8008 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
8009 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
8011 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
8012 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
8013 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
8014 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8016 o Deprecated features:
8017 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
8018 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
8019 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
8020 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
8021 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
8022 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
8025 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
8026 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
8027 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
8028 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
8029 24378 and proposal 290.
8030 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
8031 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
8032 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
8033 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
8034 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
8035 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
8036 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
8037 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
8038 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
8039 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
8040 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
8041 their local router. Closes 25409.
8042 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
8043 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
8044 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
8045 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
8046 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
8047 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
8048 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
8049 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
8050 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
8051 Closes ticket 25268.
8054 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
8055 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8056 bridge relays should upgrade.
8058 o Directory authority changes:
8059 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8060 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8061 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8064 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
8065 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8066 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8069 o Directory authority changes:
8070 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8071 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8072 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8074 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8075 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8076 Closes ticket 26343.
8078 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8079 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8080 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8081 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8082 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8084 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8085 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8086 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8088 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8089 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8090 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8091 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8093 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8094 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8095 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8097 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8098 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8099 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8100 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8101 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8102 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8104 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8105 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8106 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8107 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8109 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8110 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8111 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8114 o Minor features (geoip):
8115 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8116 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8118 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8119 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8120 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8121 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8122 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8124 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8125 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8126 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8128 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8129 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8130 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8131 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8132 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8133 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8134 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8135 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8138 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8139 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8140 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8141 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8142 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8143 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8145 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8146 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8147 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8148 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8149 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8152 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8153 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8154 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8155 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8157 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8158 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8159 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8162 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8163 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8164 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8166 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8167 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8168 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8169 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8171 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8172 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8173 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8174 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8175 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8176 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8177 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8179 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8180 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8181 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8182 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8185 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8186 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8187 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8190 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8191 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8193 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8194 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8195 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8196 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8199 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8200 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8201 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8202 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8204 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8205 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8206 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8208 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8209 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8210 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8213 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
8214 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8215 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8218 o Directory authority changes:
8219 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8220 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8221 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8223 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
8224 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8225 Closes ticket 26343.
8227 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8228 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8229 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8230 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8231 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8233 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8234 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8235 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8236 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8238 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8239 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8240 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8241 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8242 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8243 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8245 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8246 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8247 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8250 o Minor features (geoip):
8251 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8252 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8254 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8255 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8256 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8257 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8258 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8260 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8261 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8262 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8264 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8265 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8266 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8267 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8270 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8271 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8272 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8273 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8274 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8275 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8277 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8278 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8279 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8280 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8281 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8283 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8284 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8285 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8288 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8289 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8290 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8292 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
8293 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8294 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8295 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8298 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8299 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8301 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
8302 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8303 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8306 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
8307 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8308 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
8310 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8311 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
8312 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
8313 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8315 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8316 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
8317 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
8320 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8321 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8322 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8325 o Minor features (geoip):
8326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8327 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
8329 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8330 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
8331 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
8332 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
8334 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8335 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
8336 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
8337 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
8338 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
8341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8342 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8343 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8344 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8345 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8347 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8348 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
8349 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
8350 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8352 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8353 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
8354 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
8356 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
8357 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
8358 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
8359 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
8362 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8363 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8364 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8365 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8367 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
8368 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
8369 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
8370 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
8371 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8372 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
8373 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
8374 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
8378 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
8379 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
8380 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
8382 o Directory authority changes:
8383 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
8384 Closes ticket 26343.
8386 o Minor features (geoip):
8387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8388 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8391 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
8392 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
8393 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
8394 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
8395 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8397 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8398 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
8399 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8401 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8402 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
8403 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
8404 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
8405 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8407 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
8408 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
8409 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8411 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8412 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
8413 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
8414 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
8415 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
8416 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8419 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
8420 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
8421 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8423 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
8424 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
8425 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
8426 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
8427 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
8428 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
8430 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
8431 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8433 o New system requirements:
8434 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
8435 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
8437 o Major features (embedding):
8438 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
8439 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
8440 Closes ticket 23684.
8441 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
8442 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
8443 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
8444 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
8445 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
8446 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
8448 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
8449 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
8450 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
8451 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
8453 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
8454 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
8455 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
8456 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
8457 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
8459 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
8460 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
8463 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
8464 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
8465 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
8466 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
8467 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
8468 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
8469 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
8471 o Major features (onion services):
8472 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
8473 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
8474 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
8475 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
8476 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
8478 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
8479 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
8480 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
8481 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
8482 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
8483 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8485 o Major features (relay):
8486 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
8487 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
8488 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
8489 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
8490 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8492 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
8493 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
8494 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
8495 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
8496 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
8497 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
8498 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
8499 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
8501 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8502 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
8503 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
8504 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
8505 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8507 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
8508 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
8509 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
8510 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
8511 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
8513 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8514 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
8515 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
8516 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8518 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
8519 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
8520 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
8521 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
8522 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
8523 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
8524 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
8525 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8527 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8528 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
8529 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
8530 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
8532 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8533 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
8534 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
8536 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
8537 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
8538 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
8539 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
8540 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
8541 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
8542 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
8544 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8545 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
8546 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
8547 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
8548 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8550 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8551 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
8552 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
8555 o Minor features (cleanup):
8556 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
8557 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
8559 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8560 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
8561 Closes ticket 26006.
8563 o Minor features (config options):
8564 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
8565 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
8566 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
8569 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8570 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8571 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8573 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8574 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
8575 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
8576 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
8577 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
8578 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
8580 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8581 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
8582 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
8583 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
8584 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
8585 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
8586 once. Part of ticket 24337.
8587 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
8588 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
8589 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
8591 o Minor features (directory authority):
8592 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
8593 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
8595 o Minor features (embedding):
8596 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
8597 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
8598 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
8599 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
8600 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
8601 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
8602 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
8603 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
8604 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
8605 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
8606 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
8607 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
8608 Closes ticket 23848.
8609 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
8610 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
8611 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
8613 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8614 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
8615 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
8616 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
8617 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
8618 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
8619 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
8620 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
8623 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
8624 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
8625 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
8626 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
8627 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
8628 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
8629 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
8631 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
8632 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
8633 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
8634 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
8635 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
8636 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
8637 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
8638 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
8639 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
8640 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
8641 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
8642 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
8644 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
8645 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8646 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8648 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8649 Implements ticket 24791.
8651 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8652 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8653 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8654 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8655 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8656 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8658 o Minor features (geoip):
8659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
8660 database. Closes ticket 26104.
8662 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8663 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8664 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8667 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8668 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8669 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8670 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8671 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8673 o Minor features (IPv6):
8674 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8675 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8676 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8677 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8678 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
8681 o Minor features (log messages):
8682 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
8683 information about memory usage from the different compression
8684 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
8685 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8686 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8687 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8688 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8690 o Minor features (logging):
8691 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8692 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8693 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8696 o Minor features (performance):
8697 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8698 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8699 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8700 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8702 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8703 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8704 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8705 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8706 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8707 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8708 Implements ticket 24374.
8710 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8711 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8712 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8713 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8714 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8716 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8717 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8718 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8719 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8722 o Minor features (sandbox):
8723 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8724 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8725 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8727 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8728 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8729 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8730 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8731 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8733 o Minor features (testing):
8734 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8737 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8738 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8739 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8740 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8741 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8742 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8743 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8744 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8745 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8747 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8748 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8749 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8750 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8751 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8752 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8753 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8754 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8755 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
8758 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8759 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8760 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8761 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8763 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
8764 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
8765 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8767 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8768 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8769 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8770 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8771 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8774 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
8775 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
8778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8779 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8780 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8781 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8783 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8784 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
8785 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
8786 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8787 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
8788 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
8789 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8791 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8792 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8793 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8794 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8796 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8797 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
8798 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
8799 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
8800 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8802 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
8803 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
8804 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
8805 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
8808 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8809 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8810 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8811 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8812 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8814 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8815 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
8816 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
8817 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
8818 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
8821 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
8822 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
8823 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
8824 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
8825 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
8827 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8828 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
8829 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
8832 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
8833 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
8834 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
8836 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
8837 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8838 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
8839 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
8840 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
8842 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
8843 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8844 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
8845 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8847 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
8848 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
8849 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8850 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
8851 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
8852 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8854 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8855 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
8856 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
8857 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8859 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8860 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8861 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8863 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8864 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8865 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8866 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8868 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8869 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8870 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
8871 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
8874 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8875 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8876 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8877 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8878 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8879 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8882 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
8883 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8884 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8885 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8887 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8888 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
8889 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
8891 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8892 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
8893 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
8894 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
8895 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
8896 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8898 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8899 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8900 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8901 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8902 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8903 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8904 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8906 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8907 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8908 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8909 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8912 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8913 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8914 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8915 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8917 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8918 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8919 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8920 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8921 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8922 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8924 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
8925 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
8926 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
8927 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
8928 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
8929 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8930 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
8931 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
8932 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
8933 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
8934 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
8935 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8937 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
8938 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8939 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8941 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8942 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8943 would call the Rust implementation of
8944 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8945 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8946 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8947 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8948 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8950 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
8951 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8952 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8953 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8955 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8956 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8957 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8958 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8960 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
8961 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8963 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8964 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8965 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8966 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8967 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8968 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8970 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8971 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8972 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8973 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
8974 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
8976 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8978 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8979 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8980 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8982 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
8984 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
8985 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
8986 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
8987 "aruna1234" and teor.
8988 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
8989 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
8990 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
8991 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
8993 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
8994 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
8995 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
8996 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
8997 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
8998 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
8999 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
9000 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
9001 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
9002 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
9004 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
9005 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
9008 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9010 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9011 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9012 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
9013 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
9015 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
9016 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
9017 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
9018 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
9020 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
9021 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
9022 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
9023 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
9024 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
9026 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
9027 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
9028 adding very little except for unit test.
9030 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
9031 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
9032 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
9033 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
9035 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
9036 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
9037 const. Implements ticket 24489.
9039 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9040 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9041 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9043 o Documentation (man page):
9044 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
9045 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
9048 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
9049 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
9050 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
9054 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
9055 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
9058 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9059 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9061 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9062 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9064 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9067 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9068 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
9069 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9071 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
9072 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
9073 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
9074 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
9077 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9078 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9079 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9080 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9083 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9084 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9085 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9086 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9087 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9088 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9089 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9090 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9091 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9092 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9093 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9094 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9095 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9097 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9098 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9099 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9101 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9102 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9103 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9104 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9105 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9106 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9107 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9109 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9110 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9111 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9113 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9114 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9115 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9116 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9117 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9118 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9119 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9121 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9122 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9123 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9124 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9126 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9127 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9128 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9129 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9131 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9132 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9133 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9134 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9135 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9136 Closes ticket 24978.
9138 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9139 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9140 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9141 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9142 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9143 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9144 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9145 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9146 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9148 o Minor features (geoip):
9149 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9152 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9153 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9154 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9155 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9156 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9158 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9159 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9160 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9161 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9162 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9164 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9165 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9166 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9167 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9168 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9171 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9172 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9173 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9174 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9175 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9176 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9177 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9178 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9179 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9180 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9181 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9184 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
9185 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9186 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9188 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9189 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9190 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9193 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9194 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9195 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9196 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9197 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9198 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9199 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9201 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9202 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9203 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9204 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9205 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9206 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9207 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9208 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9209 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9212 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9213 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9214 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9215 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9216 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9217 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9219 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9220 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9221 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9222 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9224 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
9225 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9226 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9227 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9228 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9231 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9232 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9233 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9234 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9235 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9236 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9238 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9239 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9240 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9241 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9242 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9243 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9244 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9245 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9246 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9247 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9248 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9249 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9251 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9252 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9253 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9254 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9256 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9257 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9258 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9259 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9261 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
9262 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9263 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9264 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9267 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
9268 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9269 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9270 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9271 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9273 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9274 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9276 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9277 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9279 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9280 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9281 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9284 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
9285 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9288 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9289 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9291 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9292 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9294 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9297 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9298 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
9299 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
9301 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9302 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9303 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9304 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9307 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
9308 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9309 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9310 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9311 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9312 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9313 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9314 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9315 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9316 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9317 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9318 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9319 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9321 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9322 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9323 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9324 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9325 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9326 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9327 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9328 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9329 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9331 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
9332 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9333 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9334 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9335 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9336 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9337 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9339 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9340 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9341 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9342 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9344 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
9345 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9346 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9347 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9348 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9349 Closes ticket 24978.
9351 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9352 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9353 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9354 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9356 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9357 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9358 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9359 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9360 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9361 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9362 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9363 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9364 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9366 o Minor features (geoip):
9367 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9370 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9371 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9372 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9374 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
9375 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9376 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9377 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9378 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9380 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
9381 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9382 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9383 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9384 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9386 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9387 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9388 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9389 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9390 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9393 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9394 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9395 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9397 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9398 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9399 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9402 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9403 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9404 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9405 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9406 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9407 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9408 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9410 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9411 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9412 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9413 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9414 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9417 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9418 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9419 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9420 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9421 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9422 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9424 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
9425 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9426 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9427 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9429 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9430 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9431 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9432 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9433 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9434 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9435 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9436 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9437 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9438 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9439 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9440 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9442 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9443 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9444 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9445 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9448 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9449 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
9450 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
9451 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
9452 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
9454 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9455 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9457 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9458 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9461 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
9462 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
9463 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
9466 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9467 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9469 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
9470 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
9471 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
9472 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
9473 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
9474 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
9477 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9478 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9480 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9483 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
9484 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
9485 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
9486 the DoS mitigations.)
9488 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9489 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
9490 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
9491 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
9494 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9495 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
9496 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
9497 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9499 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9500 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9501 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9502 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9503 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9504 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9505 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9506 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9507 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9508 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9509 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9510 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9511 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9513 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9514 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9515 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9516 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9517 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9518 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9519 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9520 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
9521 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
9522 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
9523 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9525 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9526 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9527 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9529 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9530 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9531 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9532 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9533 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9534 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9535 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9537 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9538 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
9539 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
9540 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9542 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9543 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9544 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9545 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9547 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9548 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
9549 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
9550 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
9551 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
9552 Closes ticket 24978.
9554 o Minor features (geoip):
9555 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9558 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9559 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
9560 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
9563 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9564 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9565 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9566 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9567 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9569 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9570 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9571 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9572 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9573 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9574 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9575 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9577 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9578 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9579 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9580 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9581 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9584 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
9585 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
9586 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9588 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9589 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
9590 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
9591 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
9592 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9594 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9595 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9596 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9597 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9599 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9600 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9601 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9602 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9604 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9605 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9606 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9607 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9609 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9610 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9612 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9613 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9615 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
9616 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
9617 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
9619 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
9620 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
9621 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
9622 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
9623 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9625 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
9626 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9627 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9629 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
9630 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
9631 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
9635 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
9636 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
9638 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
9639 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
9640 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
9641 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
9642 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
9643 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
9645 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9646 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9647 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9648 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9649 with the 0.2.9 series.
9651 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
9652 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9654 o Directory authority changes:
9655 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9656 Closes ticket 23910.
9657 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9658 Closes ticket 23592.
9659 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9660 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9661 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9662 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9663 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9666 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
9667 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
9668 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
9669 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
9670 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
9671 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
9674 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
9675 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
9677 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
9680 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
9683 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
9685 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
9687 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
9689 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
9690 they are 56 characters long, as in
9691 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
9693 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
9694 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
9695 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
9696 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
9697 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
9700 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
9701 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
9702 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
9703 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
9704 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
9705 options. For more information, see our blog post at
9706 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
9708 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
9709 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
9710 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
9711 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
9712 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
9713 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
9714 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
9715 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
9716 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
9717 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
9718 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
9719 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
9721 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
9722 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
9723 more information, see the design paper at
9724 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
9725 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
9726 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
9727 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
9729 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
9730 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9731 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9732 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9733 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9734 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9735 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9736 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9738 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
9739 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9740 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9741 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9744 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9745 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9746 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9747 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9748 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9749 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9750 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9751 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9752 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9753 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9754 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9755 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9758 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9759 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9760 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9761 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9762 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9763 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9764 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9765 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9766 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9768 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9769 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9770 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9771 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9772 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9773 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9774 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9775 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9776 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9777 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9778 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9781 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9782 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9783 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9784 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9785 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9786 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9787 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9789 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9790 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9791 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9792 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9793 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9794 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9797 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
9798 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9799 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9800 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9802 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
9803 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
9804 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
9805 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
9807 o Minor features (bridge):
9808 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9809 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9810 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9811 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9812 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9813 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9814 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9815 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
9816 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
9817 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
9818 related to ticket 23080.
9820 o Minor features (bug detection):
9821 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
9822 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
9823 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
9825 o Minor features (build, compilation):
9826 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
9827 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
9828 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
9829 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
9830 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
9831 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
9832 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
9833 Closes ticket 23643.
9835 o Minor features (client):
9836 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
9837 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
9838 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
9839 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
9840 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
9841 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
9842 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
9843 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
9844 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
9845 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
9846 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9847 Resolves ticket 23670.
9849 o Minor features (command line):
9850 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
9851 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
9852 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
9854 o Minor features (control port):
9855 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
9856 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
9857 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
9859 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
9860 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
9862 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
9863 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
9864 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
9865 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
9866 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
9867 Closes ticket 23237.
9868 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
9869 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
9871 o Minor features (development support):
9872 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
9873 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
9874 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
9875 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
9876 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
9877 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
9879 o Minor features (directory authority):
9880 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9881 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9882 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9883 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9885 o Minor features (ed25519):
9886 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
9887 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
9888 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
9890 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
9891 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
9892 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
9894 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9895 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9896 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9897 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9898 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9899 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9900 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9901 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9902 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9904 o Minor features (geoip):
9905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9908 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
9909 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
9910 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
9911 another program, regardless of the settings of
9912 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
9913 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
9914 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
9916 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9917 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9918 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9920 o Minor features (logging):
9921 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9923 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9924 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9926 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9927 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9928 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
9929 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
9930 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
9931 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
9932 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
9933 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
9934 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
9935 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
9937 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
9938 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
9940 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
9941 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
9942 the circuit identifier(s).
9943 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
9944 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
9946 o Minor features (portability):
9947 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9948 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9950 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
9951 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
9952 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
9953 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
9955 o Minor features (relay):
9956 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
9957 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
9958 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
9959 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
9960 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
9961 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
9962 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
9963 results. Closes ticket 22731.
9965 o Minor features (relay statistics):
9966 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9967 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9968 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9970 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
9971 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9972 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9973 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9974 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9976 o Minor features (robustness):
9977 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
9978 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
9980 o Minor features (startup, safety):
9981 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
9982 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
9985 o Minor features (static analysis):
9986 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
9987 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
9990 o Minor features (testing):
9991 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9992 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9993 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
9994 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
9996 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
9997 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
9998 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
9999 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
10000 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10002 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10003 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10004 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10005 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10006 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10009 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10010 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10011 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
10014 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
10015 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
10016 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
10017 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
10018 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10019 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
10020 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
10021 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
10022 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10023 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
10024 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
10025 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
10026 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10028 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
10029 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
10030 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
10031 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10033 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
10034 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10035 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10036 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10037 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
10038 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
10039 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
10040 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
10041 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10042 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10043 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10044 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
10045 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
10046 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10047 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
10048 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10049 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10051 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10052 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
10053 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
10054 Coverity as CID 1415728.
10056 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10057 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
10058 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
10059 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10061 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
10062 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
10063 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
10064 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
10065 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
10066 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
10067 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
10068 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10070 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10071 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
10072 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
10073 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
10074 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10075 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
10076 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
10077 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10078 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
10079 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
10080 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
10081 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
10082 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
10083 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
10086 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10087 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10088 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10091 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
10092 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
10093 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
10094 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10096 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10097 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10098 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10101 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
10102 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
10103 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
10104 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10106 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
10107 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10108 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10109 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10110 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10111 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10112 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10113 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10114 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10117 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10118 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
10119 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
10120 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
10121 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10123 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
10124 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
10125 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
10126 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
10127 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
10128 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
10130 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
10131 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
10134 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10135 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
10136 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10137 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
10138 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
10139 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10141 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
10142 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
10143 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
10144 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10146 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
10147 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10148 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10149 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10150 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10151 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10153 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
10154 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
10155 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
10156 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
10157 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
10158 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
10159 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
10162 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
10163 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
10164 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
10165 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10167 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10168 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
10169 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
10170 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
10171 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10172 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
10173 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
10174 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10175 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
10176 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
10178 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
10179 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
10180 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
10182 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
10183 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
10184 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
10186 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
10187 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10188 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
10189 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
10190 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
10191 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
10193 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
10194 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10195 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10196 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10197 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10198 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10200 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
10201 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
10202 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10204 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10205 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10206 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10207 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10208 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10211 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10212 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10213 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10214 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10215 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10216 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10218 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10219 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
10220 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
10221 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
10222 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10223 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10224 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10226 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
10227 only fetch the service descriptor once.
10228 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10229 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10230 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10231 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
10232 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
10233 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
10234 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10236 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10237 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10238 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10239 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10240 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10241 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10242 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10243 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10244 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10245 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10246 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10247 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10249 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10250 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
10251 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10252 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10253 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10254 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10257 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10258 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
10259 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
10260 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
10261 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10262 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10263 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10264 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10265 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10266 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10267 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10268 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10270 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10271 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
10272 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10273 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
10274 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
10275 Closes ticket 24109.
10276 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
10277 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10278 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
10279 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
10281 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10282 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10284 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
10285 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
10286 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
10287 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
10288 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
10289 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
10290 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
10291 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10292 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
10293 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
10294 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10296 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
10297 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
10298 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
10299 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10301 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10302 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
10303 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
10305 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
10306 function from the general code to handle channel state
10307 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
10308 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
10309 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
10310 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
10311 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
10312 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
10313 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
10314 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
10316 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
10317 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
10319 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
10320 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
10321 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
10322 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
10323 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10324 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
10325 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
10326 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
10327 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
10328 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
10329 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
10330 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
10332 o Deprecated features:
10333 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
10334 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10335 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10336 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
10337 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
10338 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
10342 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
10343 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
10344 section. Closes ticket 24254.
10345 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10346 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10347 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10348 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10349 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10350 Closes ticket 18736.
10351 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
10352 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
10353 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
10354 Closes ticket 15645.
10355 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
10356 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
10357 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
10358 file. Closes ticket 21148.
10360 o Removed features:
10361 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
10362 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
10363 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
10364 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10365 Closes ticket 21031.
10366 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
10367 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
10370 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
10371 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
10372 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
10373 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
10375 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10376 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10377 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10378 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10379 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10380 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10381 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10382 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10383 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10384 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10385 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10387 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10388 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10389 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10390 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10391 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10392 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10393 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10396 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10397 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10398 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10399 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10400 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10402 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10403 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10404 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10405 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10406 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10407 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10408 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10409 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10410 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10412 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10413 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10414 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10415 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10416 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10417 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10420 o Minor features (bridge):
10421 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10422 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10423 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10424 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10427 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10428 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10431 o Minor features (geoip):
10432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10435 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10436 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10437 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10438 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10439 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10441 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10442 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10443 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10445 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10446 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10447 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10448 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10449 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10450 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10452 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10453 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10454 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10457 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10458 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10459 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10460 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10461 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10464 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
10465 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10466 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10467 to another of the releases coming out today.
10469 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10470 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10471 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10473 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10474 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10475 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10476 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10477 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10478 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10479 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10480 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10481 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10482 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10483 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10485 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10486 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10487 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10488 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10489 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10490 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10491 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10494 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10495 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10496 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10497 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10498 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10500 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10501 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10502 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10503 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10504 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10505 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10506 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10507 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10508 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10510 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10511 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10512 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10513 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10514 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10515 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10518 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10519 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10520 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10521 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10522 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10523 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10525 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10526 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10527 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10528 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10529 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10532 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10533 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10536 o Minor features (geoip):
10537 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10540 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10541 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10542 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10543 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10544 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10547 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10548 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10550 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10551 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10552 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10553 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10554 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10555 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10557 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10558 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10559 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10560 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10561 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10563 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10564 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10565 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10568 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
10569 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10570 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10571 to another of the releases coming out today.
10573 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10574 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10575 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10576 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10577 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10578 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10581 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10582 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10583 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10584 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10585 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10586 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10587 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10588 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10589 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10590 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10591 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10593 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10594 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10595 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10596 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10597 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10598 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10599 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10602 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10603 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10604 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10605 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10606 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10608 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10609 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10610 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10611 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10612 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10613 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10615 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10616 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10617 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10618 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10619 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10622 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10623 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10626 o Minor features (geoip):
10627 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10630 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10631 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10632 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10633 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10634 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10635 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10637 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10638 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10639 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10640 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10641 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10643 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10644 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10645 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10647 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10648 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10649 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10650 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10651 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10652 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10654 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10655 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10656 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10657 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10658 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10660 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10661 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10662 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10665 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
10666 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10667 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10668 to another of the releases coming out today.
10670 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10671 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
10672 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10674 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10675 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10676 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10677 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10678 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10679 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10680 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10681 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10682 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10683 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10684 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10685 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10686 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10687 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10688 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10691 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10692 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10693 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10694 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10695 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10697 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10698 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
10699 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
10700 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
10701 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
10704 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10705 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10706 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10707 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10708 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10711 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10712 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10715 o Minor features (geoip):
10716 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10719 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10720 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10721 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10724 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
10725 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10726 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10727 to another of the releases coming out today.
10729 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10730 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10731 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10733 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10734 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10735 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10736 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10737 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10738 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10739 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10740 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10741 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10742 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10743 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10744 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10745 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10746 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10747 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10750 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10751 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10752 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10753 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10754 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10755 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10757 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10758 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10759 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10760 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10761 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10764 o Minor features (geoip):
10765 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10769 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
10770 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10771 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10773 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10774 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10775 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10777 o Directory authority changes:
10778 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10779 Closes ticket 23910.
10780 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10781 Closes ticket 23592.
10783 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10784 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10785 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10786 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10787 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10789 o Minor features (geoip):
10790 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10793 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10794 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10795 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10796 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10797 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10798 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10799 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10800 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10801 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10803 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10804 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10805 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10806 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10807 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10808 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10809 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10810 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10811 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10814 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
10815 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10816 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10817 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10819 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10820 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10821 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10823 o Directory authority changes:
10824 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10825 Closes ticket 23910.
10826 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10827 Closes ticket 23592.
10829 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10830 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10831 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10832 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10834 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10835 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10836 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10837 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10838 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10840 o Minor features (geoip):
10841 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10845 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
10846 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10847 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10848 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10850 o Directory authority changes:
10851 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10852 Closes ticket 23910.
10853 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10854 Closes ticket 23592.
10856 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10857 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10858 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10859 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10861 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10862 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10863 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10864 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10865 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10867 o Minor features (geoip):
10868 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10871 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10872 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10873 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10874 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10875 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10876 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10877 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10878 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10881 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10882 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10883 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10885 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10886 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10887 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10888 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10889 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10890 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10891 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10894 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10895 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10896 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10897 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10899 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10900 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10901 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10903 o Directory authority changes:
10904 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10905 Closes ticket 23910.
10906 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10907 Closes ticket 23592.
10909 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10910 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10911 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10912 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10914 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10915 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10916 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10917 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10918 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10920 o Minor features (geoip):
10921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10924 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10925 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10926 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10927 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10928 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10929 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10930 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10931 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10934 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10935 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10936 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10937 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10939 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10940 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10941 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10943 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10944 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10945 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10946 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10947 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10948 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10949 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10952 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10953 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10954 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10955 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10956 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10958 o Directory authority changes:
10959 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10960 Closes ticket 23910.
10961 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10962 Closes ticket 23592.
10964 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10965 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10966 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10967 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10969 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10970 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10971 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10972 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10973 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10975 o Minor features (geoip):
10976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10979 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10980 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10981 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10982 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10984 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10985 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10986 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10989 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10990 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10991 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10993 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10994 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10995 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10996 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10998 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10999 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11000 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11002 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11003 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11004 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11008 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
11009 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11012 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11013 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11014 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11015 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11017 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11018 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
11019 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
11020 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
11022 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11023 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11024 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11025 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11026 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11029 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11032 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11033 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11034 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11037 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11038 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11039 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11040 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11041 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11042 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11043 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11044 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11045 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11047 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11048 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11049 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11050 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11051 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11052 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11053 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11054 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11055 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11058 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
11059 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11062 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11063 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11064 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11065 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11067 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11068 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11069 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11070 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
11071 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
11072 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
11073 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
11075 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
11076 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11077 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11078 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11080 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11081 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
11082 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11084 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11085 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11086 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11087 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11089 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11090 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11091 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11092 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11093 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11095 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11096 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11097 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11098 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11100 o Minor features (geoip):
11101 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11104 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11105 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11106 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11107 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11110 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11111 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11112 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
11113 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11114 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
11115 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
11116 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11118 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11119 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
11120 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11122 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11123 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11124 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11127 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11128 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11129 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11130 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
11131 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11134 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11135 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11136 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11137 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11138 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11140 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11141 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11142 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11143 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11144 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11145 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11146 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11147 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11148 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11150 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11151 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11152 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11153 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11155 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11156 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11157 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11159 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11160 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11161 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11162 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11163 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11165 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
11166 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
11167 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
11170 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11171 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11172 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11173 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11174 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11176 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11177 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11178 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11179 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11180 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11181 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11182 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11183 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11184 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11187 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
11188 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
11191 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11192 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11193 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11194 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11196 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11197 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11198 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11199 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11202 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11206 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11207 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11209 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11210 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11211 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11212 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11213 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11215 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11216 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11217 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11218 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11220 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11221 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11222 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11224 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11225 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11226 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11227 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11230 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
11231 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11233 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
11234 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
11235 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
11236 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
11237 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
11238 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
11239 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
11241 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
11242 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
11243 disabled. For more information, see
11244 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11246 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11247 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11248 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11249 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11250 with the 0.2.9 series.
11252 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
11253 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11255 o New dependencies:
11256 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
11257 pkg-config tool at build time.
11259 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
11260 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
11261 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
11262 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11263 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
11265 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
11266 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11267 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11268 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11269 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11270 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11271 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11272 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11273 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11275 o Major features (directory protocol):
11276 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
11277 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
11278 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
11279 now request these documents when available. When both client and
11280 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
11281 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
11282 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
11283 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
11284 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
11285 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
11286 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
11287 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
11288 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
11289 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
11290 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
11291 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
11292 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
11294 o Major features (experimental):
11295 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
11296 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
11297 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
11298 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
11299 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
11300 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
11301 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
11303 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
11304 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
11305 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
11306 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
11307 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
11308 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
11311 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
11312 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
11313 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
11314 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
11315 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
11316 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
11317 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
11318 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
11319 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
11320 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
11321 multiples of 10000.
11323 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11324 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11325 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11326 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11327 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11328 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11329 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11332 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
11333 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11334 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11335 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11336 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11337 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11339 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
11340 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
11341 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
11342 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
11343 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
11344 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
11345 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
11346 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
11347 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11348 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
11349 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
11350 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
11351 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
11352 Otherwise it is at info.
11354 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11355 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11356 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11357 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11358 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11359 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11360 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11362 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
11363 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11364 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11365 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11367 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
11368 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11369 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11370 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11371 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11373 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
11374 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11375 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11376 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11377 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11378 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11379 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11382 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
11383 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11384 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11385 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11386 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11387 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11388 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11389 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11390 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11391 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11392 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11393 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11394 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11397 o Minor features (security, windows):
11398 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11399 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11400 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11401 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11402 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11404 o Minor features (bridge authority):
11405 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
11406 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
11408 o Minor features (code style):
11409 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11410 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11411 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11413 o Minor features (config options):
11414 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
11415 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
11416 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
11417 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
11418 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
11419 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
11420 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
11421 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
11423 o Minor features (controller):
11424 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
11425 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
11427 o Minor features (defaults):
11428 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
11429 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
11430 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
11431 can. Closes ticket 21407.
11432 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
11433 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
11434 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
11435 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
11436 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
11437 Closes ticket 21641.
11439 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11440 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
11441 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
11442 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
11445 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11446 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
11447 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
11448 attempt for bug 23105.
11449 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
11450 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
11451 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
11452 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
11453 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
11454 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
11455 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
11457 o Minor features (directory authority):
11458 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
11459 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
11460 Closes ticket 22348.
11462 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
11463 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
11464 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
11465 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
11466 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
11469 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11470 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
11471 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
11472 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11473 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11474 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11475 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11477 o Minor features (geoip):
11478 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11481 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
11482 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
11483 introduction points than specified in
11484 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
11485 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
11486 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
11487 21594; closes ticket 21622.
11488 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
11489 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
11490 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
11491 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
11493 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11494 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
11495 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
11496 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
11497 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
11498 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
11499 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
11500 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
11501 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
11502 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
11504 o Minor features (logging):
11505 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
11506 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
11507 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
11508 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
11511 o Minor features (performance):
11512 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
11513 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
11515 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
11516 speed some controller functions.
11518 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
11519 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
11520 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
11521 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
11523 o Minor features (relay, performance):
11524 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
11525 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
11526 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
11527 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
11528 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
11531 o Minor features (safety):
11532 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
11533 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
11534 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
11537 o Minor features (testing):
11538 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
11540 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
11541 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
11542 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
11543 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
11544 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
11545 on. Closes ticket 21439.
11546 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
11547 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
11548 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
11549 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
11550 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
11551 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
11552 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
11553 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
11554 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
11555 21507. Partially implements 21470.
11557 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
11558 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11559 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11560 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11562 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11563 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
11564 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
11565 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
11568 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
11569 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
11570 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11571 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11572 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11573 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11574 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11575 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11579 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11580 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11582 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11583 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
11584 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
11585 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
11586 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
11587 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11589 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11590 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11591 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11593 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
11594 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
11595 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
11596 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
11597 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
11598 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
11599 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11600 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
11601 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
11602 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
11603 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
11604 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
11605 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
11606 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
11608 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11609 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11610 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11611 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11612 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11613 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
11614 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11615 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
11616 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
11617 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
11618 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
11619 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11621 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11622 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11623 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11625 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
11626 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11627 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11628 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11629 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11630 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11632 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11633 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11634 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11635 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11636 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11637 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11638 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11639 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11640 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11641 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11642 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11643 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11645 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11646 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11647 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11648 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11649 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11650 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11651 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11652 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11654 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11655 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11656 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11657 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
11658 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
11659 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
11661 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11662 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11663 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11666 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
11667 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
11668 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
11669 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
11670 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
11672 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11673 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
11674 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11675 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
11676 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
11677 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11678 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
11679 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11680 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
11681 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
11682 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11684 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11685 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11686 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11687 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11689 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11690 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
11691 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
11692 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
11693 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
11694 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
11695 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
11696 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
11697 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
11698 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
11699 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11700 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
11701 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
11702 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11704 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11705 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11706 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11707 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11708 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11709 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11710 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11712 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11713 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11714 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11715 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11716 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11717 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11718 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11720 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11721 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11722 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11723 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11724 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11725 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11726 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11727 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11728 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11729 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11730 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11731 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11732 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11734 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
11735 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
11736 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
11737 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11739 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11740 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11741 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11743 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11744 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11745 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11746 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11748 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11749 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
11750 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
11751 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11753 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11754 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
11755 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11756 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11757 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11758 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11759 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11760 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11761 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11763 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11764 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11765 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11766 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11767 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11768 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11769 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11772 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11773 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11774 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11775 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11776 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11777 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11779 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11780 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11781 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11782 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
11783 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
11784 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11785 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
11786 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11787 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
11788 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
11789 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
11790 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
11791 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11792 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11793 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11794 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11797 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
11798 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11799 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11800 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11801 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11803 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11804 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11805 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11806 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11807 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11808 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11809 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11811 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
11812 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
11813 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11815 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11816 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
11817 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
11818 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
11819 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
11820 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
11821 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
11822 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
11823 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
11824 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
11825 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
11826 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
11828 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
11829 Resolves ticket 22213.
11830 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
11831 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
11832 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
11833 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
11834 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
11835 types. Closes ticket 21651.
11836 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
11837 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
11840 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11842 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11843 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11845 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11846 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11847 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11849 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11851 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
11852 Closes ticket 21873.
11853 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
11854 Closes ticket 21151.
11855 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
11856 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
11858 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
11859 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11860 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
11861 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
11863 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
11864 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
11865 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11866 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
11867 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
11868 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
11869 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
11870 default behavior is now unavailable.
11871 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
11872 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
11873 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
11874 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
11875 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
11876 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
11877 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
11879 o Removed features (tools):
11880 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
11881 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
11882 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
11883 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
11884 required. Closes ticket 21842.
11887 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11888 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11889 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11890 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11892 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11893 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11894 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11895 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11896 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11897 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11898 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11899 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11900 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11902 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11903 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11904 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11905 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11907 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11908 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11909 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11910 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11911 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11913 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11917 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11918 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11919 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11920 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11922 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11923 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11924 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11925 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11926 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11927 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11928 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11929 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11933 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11934 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11937 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11938 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11939 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11940 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11941 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11942 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11944 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11945 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11946 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11947 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11949 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11950 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11951 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11953 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11954 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11955 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11958 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11959 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11960 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11961 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11962 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11965 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11968 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11969 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11970 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11971 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11972 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11973 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11975 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11976 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11977 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11978 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11980 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11981 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11982 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11983 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11985 o Minor features (geoip):
11986 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11989 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11990 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11991 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11992 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11993 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11995 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11996 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11997 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11998 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11999 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12001 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12002 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12003 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12004 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12005 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12006 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12007 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12008 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12009 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12012 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
12013 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
12014 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12015 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12016 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
12018 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
12019 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12020 bugfixes described below.
12022 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12023 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12024 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12025 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12026 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12027 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12028 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12029 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12032 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12033 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12034 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12035 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12036 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12037 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12038 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12041 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12042 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12043 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12044 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12045 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12046 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12047 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12048 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12049 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12050 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12051 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12052 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12053 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12056 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12057 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
12058 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
12061 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12062 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12063 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12064 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12065 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12067 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12068 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12069 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12071 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12072 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12073 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12075 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12076 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
12077 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
12078 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
12079 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
12080 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
12081 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12083 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
12085 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12086 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12087 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12090 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
12091 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12092 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12093 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12094 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12095 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12097 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
12098 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12099 bugfixes described below.
12101 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12102 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12103 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12104 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12105 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12108 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12109 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12110 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12111 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12112 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12113 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12114 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12117 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12118 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12119 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12120 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12121 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12123 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
12124 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
12125 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12126 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12127 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12128 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12129 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12131 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
12132 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
12133 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
12134 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
12135 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
12137 o Minor features (geoip):
12138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12141 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
12142 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12143 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12144 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12147 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12148 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12150 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
12151 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12152 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12153 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12154 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12157 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
12158 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
12159 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12160 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12161 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12163 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
12164 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12165 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12166 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12167 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12168 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12170 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12171 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12172 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12173 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12176 o Minor features (geoip):
12177 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12180 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12181 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12182 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12183 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12184 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12186 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12187 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12188 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12190 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
12191 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12192 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12193 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12194 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12195 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12197 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12198 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12199 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12200 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12203 o Minor features (geoip):
12204 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12207 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12208 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12209 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12212 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
12213 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12214 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12215 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12216 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12217 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12219 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12220 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12221 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12222 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12225 o Minor features (geoip):
12226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12229 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12230 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12231 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12233 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
12234 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12235 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12236 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12237 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12238 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12240 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12241 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12242 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12243 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12246 o Minor features (geoip):
12247 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12250 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12251 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12252 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12254 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
12255 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12256 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12257 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12258 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12259 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12261 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12262 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12263 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12264 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12267 o Minor features (geoip):
12268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12271 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12272 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12273 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12276 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
12277 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
12278 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
12279 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
12280 clients are not affected.
12282 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
12283 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
12284 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
12285 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
12286 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
12287 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12290 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12293 o Minor features (future-proofing):
12294 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
12295 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12296 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12297 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12298 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12299 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12301 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12302 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12303 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12304 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12305 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12309 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
12310 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
12312 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
12313 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
12314 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
12315 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
12316 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
12317 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
12320 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
12321 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
12323 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
12324 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
12325 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
12326 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
12327 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
12329 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
12330 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12332 o Major features (directory authority, security):
12333 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
12334 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
12335 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
12337 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
12338 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
12339 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
12340 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
12341 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
12344 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
12345 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
12346 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
12347 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
12348 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
12349 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
12350 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
12351 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
12354 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
12355 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
12356 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
12357 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
12358 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
12359 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
12360 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
12361 15056; part of proposal 220.
12362 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
12363 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
12364 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
12365 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
12366 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
12367 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
12368 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
12369 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
12370 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
12373 o Major features (security):
12374 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12375 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12376 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12377 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12378 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12379 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12381 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
12382 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12383 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12384 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12385 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12386 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12387 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12388 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12389 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12390 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12391 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12393 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
12394 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12395 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12396 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12398 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12399 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12400 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12401 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12404 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
12405 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12406 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12408 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
12409 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12410 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12411 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12412 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12413 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12414 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12416 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
12417 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12418 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12419 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12420 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12421 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12422 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12423 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
12424 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
12425 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
12426 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
12427 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
12428 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
12429 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
12430 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
12432 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
12433 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
12434 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
12435 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
12436 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12438 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
12439 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12440 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
12441 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
12442 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
12443 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
12444 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12446 o Minor feature (client):
12447 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
12448 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
12450 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
12451 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
12452 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
12453 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
12455 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
12456 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
12457 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
12459 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
12460 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
12461 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
12462 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
12463 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
12465 o Minor features (controller):
12466 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
12467 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
12468 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
12469 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
12472 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
12473 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
12474 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
12475 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
12476 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
12477 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
12478 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
12479 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
12480 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
12481 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
12483 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
12484 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
12485 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
12488 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12489 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12490 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12492 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12493 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12494 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12496 o Minor features (directory authority):
12497 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
12498 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
12499 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
12500 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
12501 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
12503 o Minor features (directory cache):
12504 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
12505 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
12508 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
12509 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
12510 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
12511 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
12513 o Minor features (entry guards):
12514 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
12515 break regression tests.
12516 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
12517 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
12519 o Minor features (fallback directories):
12520 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
12521 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
12522 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
12523 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
12524 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
12525 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
12526 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
12527 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
12528 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
12529 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
12530 Closes ticket 20539.
12531 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
12532 Closes ticket 20822.
12533 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
12535 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
12536 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
12537 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
12538 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
12539 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
12541 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
12542 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
12543 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
12544 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
12545 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
12548 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
12549 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
12550 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
12551 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
12553 o Minor features (geoip):
12554 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12557 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
12558 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12561 o Minor features (infrastructure):
12562 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
12563 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
12565 o Minor features (linting):
12566 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
12567 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
12569 o Minor features (logging):
12570 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
12571 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
12573 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
12574 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12575 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12577 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12578 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12580 o Minor features (relay):
12581 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
12582 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
12583 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
12584 Written by Michael Sonntag.
12586 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
12587 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
12588 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
12591 o Minor features (testing):
12592 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
12593 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
12594 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
12596 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
12597 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
12598 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
12599 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
12600 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
12601 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
12602 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12603 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12604 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12606 o Minor bugfix (logging):
12607 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
12608 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
12609 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
12610 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
12613 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
12614 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
12615 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
12616 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
12618 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12619 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
12620 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
12623 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
12624 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
12625 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
12627 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12628 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
12629 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
12630 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12631 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
12632 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
12633 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
12635 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12636 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12637 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12639 o Minor bugfixes (config):
12640 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
12641 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
12642 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
12643 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12645 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12646 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
12647 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
12648 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
12649 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
12650 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
12652 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
12653 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
12654 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
12655 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
12656 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
12657 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
12658 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
12661 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
12662 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
12663 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
12664 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
12665 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
12667 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12668 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12669 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12670 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12672 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
12673 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
12674 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
12675 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
12676 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12678 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
12679 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
12680 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
12681 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
12682 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12684 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12685 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12686 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12687 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12688 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12689 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12690 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
12693 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
12694 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
12695 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
12696 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
12697 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12698 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
12699 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
12700 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
12701 on all recent tor versions.
12703 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12704 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
12705 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
12707 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
12708 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
12709 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12711 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12712 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
12713 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
12714 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
12715 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12716 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
12717 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12718 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
12719 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12721 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12722 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
12723 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
12724 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
12725 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12726 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
12727 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
12728 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12729 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
12730 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
12731 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
12734 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12735 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12736 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12737 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12738 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12739 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12740 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12741 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12742 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
12743 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
12744 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
12747 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12748 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
12749 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12750 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
12751 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
12752 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
12753 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
12754 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
12756 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
12757 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
12758 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
12761 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12762 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
12763 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12765 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12766 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
12767 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
12768 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
12771 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
12772 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12773 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12774 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12776 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12777 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12779 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12780 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12781 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12783 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
12784 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
12785 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
12786 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
12788 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12789 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
12790 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
12791 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
12792 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12793 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
12794 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
12795 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12797 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
12798 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12799 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12800 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12801 Patch by "junglefowl".
12803 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12804 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
12805 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
12806 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
12807 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12809 o Minor bugfixes (util):
12810 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
12811 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
12812 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
12813 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
12815 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
12816 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
12817 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
12820 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
12821 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
12822 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
12823 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
12825 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12826 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
12827 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
12828 Closes ticket 19858.
12829 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
12830 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
12831 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
12832 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
12833 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
12834 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
12835 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
12836 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
12837 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
12838 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
12839 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12840 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
12841 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
12842 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
12843 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
12844 redundant with the similar structures used in the
12845 channel abstraction.
12846 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
12847 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
12848 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
12849 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
12850 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
12851 replaced with code automatically generated by the
12854 o Documentation (formatting):
12855 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
12856 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
12858 o Documentation (man page):
12859 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
12860 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
12863 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
12864 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
12866 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
12867 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
12868 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
12870 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
12871 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
12872 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
12873 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12874 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12875 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
12876 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
12877 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12878 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12879 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12881 o Removed features:
12882 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
12883 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
12884 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
12886 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
12887 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
12888 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
12891 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
12892 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
12893 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
12895 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
12896 from "overcaffeinated".
12897 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
12898 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
12901 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12902 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12903 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12904 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12905 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12908 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12909 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12910 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12912 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12913 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12914 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12915 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12916 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12917 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12918 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12920 o Minor features (geoip):
12921 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12925 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12926 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12927 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12928 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12931 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12932 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12933 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12935 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12936 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12938 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12939 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12940 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12942 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12943 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12944 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12947 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12948 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12949 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12950 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12951 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12952 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12953 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12954 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12955 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12957 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12958 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12959 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12960 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12961 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12962 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12963 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12964 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12965 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12966 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12967 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12968 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12969 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12971 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12972 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12973 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12974 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12975 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12977 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12978 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12979 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12981 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12982 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12983 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12984 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12985 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12986 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12987 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12990 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12991 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12992 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12993 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12994 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12995 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12996 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12998 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12999 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13000 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13001 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13004 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13005 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13006 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13007 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13009 o Minor features (geoip):
13010 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13014 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
13015 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13016 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
13017 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13020 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13021 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13022 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13024 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13025 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13027 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13028 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13029 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13031 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13032 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13033 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13036 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13037 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13038 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13039 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13040 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13041 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13042 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13043 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13044 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13046 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13047 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13048 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13049 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13050 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13051 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13052 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13053 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13054 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13056 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13057 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13058 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13059 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13060 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13062 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13063 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13064 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13065 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13066 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13069 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13070 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13071 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13072 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13073 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13075 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13076 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13077 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13079 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13080 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13081 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13082 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13083 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13084 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13087 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13088 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13089 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13090 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13091 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13092 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13093 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13096 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13097 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13098 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13099 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13100 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13101 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13102 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13104 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13105 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13106 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13107 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13110 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13111 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13112 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13113 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13115 o Minor features (geoip):
13116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13119 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13120 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13121 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13124 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
13125 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13126 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
13127 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13130 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
13131 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
13132 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13134 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13135 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13137 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13138 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13139 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13141 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13142 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13143 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13146 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13147 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13148 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13149 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13150 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13151 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13152 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13153 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13154 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13156 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13157 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13158 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13159 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13160 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13161 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13162 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13163 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13164 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13166 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13167 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13168 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13169 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13170 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13172 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13173 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13174 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13175 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13176 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13179 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13180 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13181 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13182 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13183 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13185 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13186 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13187 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13189 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13190 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13191 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13192 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13193 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13194 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13197 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13198 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13199 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13200 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13201 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13202 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13203 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13206 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13207 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13208 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13209 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13210 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13211 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13212 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13214 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13215 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13216 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13217 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13220 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13221 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13222 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13223 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13225 o Minor features (geoip):
13226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13229 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13230 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13231 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13233 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
13234 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13235 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13236 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13237 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13238 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13240 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13241 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13242 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13246 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
13247 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13248 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
13249 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13252 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
13253 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13254 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13256 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13257 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13259 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13260 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13261 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13263 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13264 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13265 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13268 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13269 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13270 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13271 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13272 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13273 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13274 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13275 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13276 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13278 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13279 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13280 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13281 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13282 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13283 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13284 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13285 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13286 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13288 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13289 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13290 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13291 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13292 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13295 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13296 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13297 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13298 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13299 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13301 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13302 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13303 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13305 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13306 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13307 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13308 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13309 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13310 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13313 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13314 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13315 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13316 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13317 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13318 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13319 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13322 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13323 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13324 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13325 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13326 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13327 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13328 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13330 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13331 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13332 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13333 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13336 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13337 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13338 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13339 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13341 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13342 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13343 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13344 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13346 o Minor features (geoip):
13347 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13350 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13351 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13352 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13354 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13355 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13356 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13360 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
13361 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
13362 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
13363 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
13365 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
13366 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
13367 least January of 2020.
13369 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13370 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13371 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13372 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13375 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13376 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13377 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13378 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13379 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13380 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13381 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13383 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13384 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13385 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13386 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13387 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13388 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13389 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13391 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13392 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13393 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13395 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13396 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13397 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13399 o Minor features (geoip):
13400 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13403 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13404 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13405 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13407 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13408 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13410 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13411 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13412 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13414 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13415 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13416 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13417 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13418 Patch by "junglefowl".
13421 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
13422 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13423 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13424 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13425 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13426 version should upgrade.
13428 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
13429 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
13431 o Major bugfixes (security):
13432 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13433 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13434 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13435 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13436 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13437 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13439 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13440 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13441 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13442 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13443 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13444 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13445 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13446 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13447 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13448 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13449 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13451 o Minor features (geoip):
13452 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13455 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13456 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13457 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13458 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13460 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13461 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13464 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
13465 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
13466 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13467 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13468 become available for their systems.
13470 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
13473 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
13474 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
13476 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13477 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13478 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13479 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13480 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13481 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13482 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13483 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13484 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13486 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13487 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13488 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13489 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13490 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13492 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
13493 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13497 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
13498 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
13500 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
13501 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
13502 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
13503 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
13504 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
13505 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
13506 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
13507 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
13509 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
13511 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
13512 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13513 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13514 become available for their systems.
13516 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
13517 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13519 o New system requirements:
13520 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
13521 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
13522 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
13523 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
13524 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
13525 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
13526 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
13527 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
13528 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
13529 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
13530 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
13532 o Deprecated features:
13533 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
13534 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
13535 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
13536 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
13537 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
13538 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
13539 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
13540 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
13541 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13542 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
13543 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
13544 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
13545 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
13546 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
13547 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
13548 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
13549 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
13550 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
13551 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
13552 and TransListenAddress.
13554 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13555 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13556 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13557 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13558 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13559 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13560 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13561 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13562 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13564 o Major features (build, hardening):
13565 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
13566 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
13567 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
13568 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
13569 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
13570 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
13571 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
13572 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
13573 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
13575 o Major features (circuit building, security):
13576 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
13577 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
13578 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
13580 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
13581 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
13583 o Major features (compilation):
13584 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
13585 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
13586 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
13587 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
13589 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
13590 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
13591 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
13593 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
13594 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
13595 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
13596 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
13597 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
13598 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
13599 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
13600 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
13602 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
13603 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
13604 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
13605 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
13606 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
13607 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
13608 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
13610 o Major features (resource management):
13611 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
13612 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
13613 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
13614 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
13615 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
13616 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
13618 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
13619 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
13620 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
13621 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
13622 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
13623 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
13624 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
13625 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
13626 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
13627 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
13628 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
13630 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
13631 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
13632 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
13633 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
13634 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
13635 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
13636 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
13637 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
13638 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
13639 part of proposal 264.
13641 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
13642 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
13643 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
13644 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
13646 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13647 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
13648 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
13649 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13650 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13651 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13652 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13653 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13654 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13656 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13657 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13658 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13660 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
13661 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
13662 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
13663 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
13664 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
13665 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
13666 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
13668 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13669 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
13670 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
13671 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
13672 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
13673 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
13674 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
13675 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
13676 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
13677 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13679 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13680 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13681 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13682 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13683 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13684 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13686 o Minor features (port flags):
13687 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
13688 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
13689 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
13690 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
13691 18693; patch by "teor".
13693 o Minor features (build, hardening):
13694 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
13695 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
13696 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
13697 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
13698 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
13699 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
13700 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
13701 Closes ticket 18895.
13703 o Minor features (client, directory):
13704 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
13705 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
13706 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
13709 o Minor features (code safety):
13710 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
13711 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
13712 patch from "U+039b".
13714 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
13715 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
13718 o Minor features (config):
13719 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
13720 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
13722 o Minor features (controller):
13723 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
13724 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
13725 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
13726 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
13727 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
13728 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
13729 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
13730 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
13732 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
13733 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
13734 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
13737 o Minor features (directory authority):
13738 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
13739 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
13740 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
13741 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
13742 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
13743 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
13744 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
13745 Implements ticket 18624.
13746 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
13747 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
13748 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
13751 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
13752 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13753 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13754 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13755 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13757 o Minor features (hidden service):
13758 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
13759 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
13760 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
13763 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
13764 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
13765 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
13766 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
13767 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
13768 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
13769 Closes ticket 18365.
13770 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
13771 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
13772 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
13773 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
13775 o Minor features (logging):
13776 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
13777 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
13778 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
13779 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
13780 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
13781 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
13782 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
13783 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
13784 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
13785 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
13787 o Minor features (performance):
13788 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
13789 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
13790 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
13791 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
13792 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
13793 Closes ticket 18815.
13795 o Minor features (relay, usability):
13796 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
13797 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
13798 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
13799 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
13802 o Minor features (security, TLS):
13803 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
13804 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
13805 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
13806 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
13808 o Minor features (testing):
13809 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
13810 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
13811 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
13812 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
13813 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
13814 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
13815 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
13816 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
13817 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
13818 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
13820 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
13821 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
13822 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
13823 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
13824 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
13825 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
13826 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
13828 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
13829 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
13830 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
13831 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
13832 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
13833 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
13834 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
13835 assertion as a test failure.
13836 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
13838 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
13839 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
13840 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
13841 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
13842 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
13843 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
13844 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
13845 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
13846 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
13848 o Minor features (Tor2web):
13849 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
13850 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
13851 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
13853 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13854 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
13855 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
13856 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
13857 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
13859 o Minor features (user interface):
13860 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
13861 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
13862 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
13863 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
13866 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13867 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13868 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13869 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13872 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
13873 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
13874 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
13875 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
13876 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
13877 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
13879 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13880 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13881 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13882 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13884 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
13885 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13886 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13887 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13888 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13890 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
13891 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
13892 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
13893 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
13894 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
13896 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
13897 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
13898 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
13899 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
13900 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13902 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
13903 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
13904 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13906 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13907 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13908 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13910 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13911 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13912 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13915 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
13916 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
13917 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
13919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13920 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
13921 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
13923 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
13924 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
13925 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13926 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
13927 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
13928 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
13929 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13930 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13932 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13933 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
13934 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
13935 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
13937 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13938 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
13939 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
13940 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13941 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
13942 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
13943 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
13944 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13945 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
13946 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
13948 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
13949 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
13950 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
13951 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
13953 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
13954 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
13955 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
13956 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
13959 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
13960 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
13961 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
13962 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
13964 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
13965 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
13968 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13969 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
13970 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
13971 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
13973 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
13974 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
13976 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
13977 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
13978 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13979 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
13980 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
13982 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
13983 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
13984 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13986 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
13987 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
13988 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
13990 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13991 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
13992 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
13993 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
13994 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
13995 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13997 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13998 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13999 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
14001 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14002 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14003 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14004 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14005 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14006 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14007 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
14009 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14010 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14011 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14012 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
14013 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14014 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
14015 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14016 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
14017 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
14018 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14019 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
14020 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
14021 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14022 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
14023 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
14026 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
14027 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
14028 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
14029 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
14030 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
14031 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14033 o Minor bugfixes (options):
14034 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
14035 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
14037 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
14038 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
14039 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14042 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14043 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
14044 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14045 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
14046 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
14047 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14049 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14050 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
14051 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
14052 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
14053 patch from "cypherpunks".
14054 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
14055 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14056 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
14057 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14058 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
14059 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
14060 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
14061 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
14062 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14063 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
14064 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
14066 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
14067 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
14069 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
14070 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
14071 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14072 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
14073 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
14076 o Minor bugfixes (time):
14077 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
14078 bugfix on all released tor versions.
14079 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
14080 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
14081 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
14082 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14084 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
14085 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
14086 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
14087 19678. Patch by teor.
14089 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14090 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
14091 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
14092 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
14093 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
14095 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
14096 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14098 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14099 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
14101 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
14102 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14103 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
14104 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
14107 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
14108 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
14109 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
14110 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
14111 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
14112 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
14113 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
14114 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
14115 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
14116 tickets 19287 and 19290.
14117 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
14118 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14119 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
14120 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
14121 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14122 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
14123 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
14124 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
14126 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
14127 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
14128 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
14129 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
14132 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
14133 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
14135 o Removed features:
14136 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
14137 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
14138 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
14139 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
14140 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
14141 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
14142 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
14145 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
14146 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
14147 command-line options to enable them.
14148 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
14149 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
14152 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
14153 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
14154 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
14155 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
14158 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14159 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
14160 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
14161 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
14162 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
14163 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
14166 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14167 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
14168 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
14171 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
14172 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
14173 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
14174 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
14176 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14177 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
14178 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
14179 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14182 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14183 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
14184 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
14185 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14188 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
14189 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
14190 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
14193 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14194 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
14195 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14197 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14198 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
14199 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14201 o Minor features (geoip):
14202 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14206 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
14207 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
14208 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
14209 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
14210 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
14213 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14214 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14215 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14216 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14217 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14218 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14219 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14220 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14221 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14223 o Minor features (geoip):
14224 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14228 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
14229 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
14230 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
14231 who select public relays as their bridges.
14233 o Major bugfixes (crash):
14234 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14235 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14236 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14237 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14238 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14240 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
14241 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14242 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14243 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14244 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14247 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14248 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
14249 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14251 o Minor features (geoip):
14252 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14256 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
14257 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
14258 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
14259 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14260 encouraged to upgrade.
14262 o Directory authority changes:
14263 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14264 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14266 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
14267 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14268 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14269 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14270 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14271 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14273 o Minor features (geoip):
14274 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14277 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14278 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14279 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14282 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14283 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14284 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14285 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14288 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
14290 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14292 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
14293 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
14294 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
14295 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
14296 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
14297 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14299 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
14301 o New system requirements:
14302 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
14303 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
14304 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
14306 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
14307 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
14308 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
14309 longer runs with, these versions.
14310 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
14311 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
14312 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
14313 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
14314 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
14316 o Directory authority changes:
14317 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14318 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14320 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14322 o Major features (directory system):
14323 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
14324 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
14325 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
14326 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
14327 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
14328 gsathya, and karsten.
14329 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
14330 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
14331 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
14332 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
14333 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
14335 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
14336 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
14337 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
14338 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
14339 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
14340 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
14341 mikeperry and teor.
14343 o Major features (security, Linux):
14344 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
14345 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
14346 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
14347 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
14348 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
14350 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
14351 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
14352 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
14353 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
14354 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
14355 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
14356 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
14358 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
14359 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
14362 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
14363 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14364 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14366 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
14367 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
14368 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
14369 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
14370 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
14372 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
14373 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
14374 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
14375 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14376 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
14377 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
14378 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
14379 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
14380 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
14381 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14383 o Major bugfixes (key management):
14384 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14385 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14386 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14387 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14388 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14389 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14392 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
14393 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14394 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14395 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14396 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14398 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
14399 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
14400 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
14401 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
14402 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
14403 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
14404 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
14405 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
14406 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14408 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
14409 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14410 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14411 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14412 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14414 o Major bugfixes (testing):
14415 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
14416 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14418 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
14419 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
14420 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
14421 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14423 o Minor features (accounting):
14424 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
14425 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
14426 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
14427 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
14429 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
14430 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14431 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14432 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14433 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
14434 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
14435 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
14438 o Minor features (build):
14439 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
14440 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
14441 Steven Chamberlain.
14442 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
14443 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
14444 patch from "cypherpunks".
14445 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14446 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
14447 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
14448 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
14449 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
14450 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
14451 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14452 Patch from intrigeri.
14454 o Minor features (clients):
14455 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
14456 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
14457 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
14459 o Minor features (controller):
14460 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
14461 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
14462 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
14464 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
14465 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
14466 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
14467 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
14468 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
14470 o Minor features (crypto):
14471 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
14472 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
14474 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
14475 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
14476 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14477 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
14478 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
14480 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
14481 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
14482 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
14483 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
14485 o Minor features (directory downloads):
14486 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
14487 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
14488 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
14489 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
14490 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
14491 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
14492 17864; patch by teor.
14494 o Minor features (geoip):
14495 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14498 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
14499 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
14500 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
14501 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
14502 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
14504 o Minor features (IPv6):
14505 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
14506 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
14507 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
14508 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
14509 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
14510 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
14511 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
14512 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
14513 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
14514 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
14515 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
14516 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
14518 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
14519 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
14520 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
14521 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
14522 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
14523 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
14524 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
14525 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
14526 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
14527 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14529 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14530 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
14531 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
14532 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
14533 while fixing 18548.
14535 o Minor features (logging):
14536 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
14537 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
14538 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
14539 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
14542 o Minor features (portability):
14543 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
14544 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
14546 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
14547 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
14548 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
14549 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
14550 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
14552 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
14553 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
14554 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
14555 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
14556 Resolves ticket 17951.
14558 o Minor features (replay cache):
14559 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
14560 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
14562 o Minor features (robustness):
14563 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
14564 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
14565 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
14567 o Minor features (security, clock):
14568 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
14569 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
14570 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
14571 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
14573 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
14574 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
14575 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
14576 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
14577 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
14578 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
14580 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
14581 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14582 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14583 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14585 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
14586 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
14587 Implements ticket 17026.
14588 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
14589 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
14590 Implements feature 17986.
14591 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
14592 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
14593 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
14595 o Minor features (security, RNG):
14596 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
14597 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
14598 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
14599 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
14600 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
14601 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
14602 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
14603 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
14604 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
14605 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
14608 o Minor features (security, win32):
14609 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
14610 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
14613 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14614 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
14615 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
14616 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
14617 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
14618 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
14619 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
14622 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
14623 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
14624 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
14625 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
14626 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14627 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
14628 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
14629 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
14630 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
14631 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
14632 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14633 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
14634 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
14635 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
14637 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
14638 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
14639 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
14640 from "unixninja92".
14642 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
14643 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
14644 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
14647 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14648 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
14649 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14651 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14652 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
14653 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
14654 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14655 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
14656 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
14658 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
14659 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
14661 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
14662 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
14663 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14664 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
14665 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
14667 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
14668 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14669 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
14670 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
14671 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14672 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
14674 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
14675 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
14676 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
14677 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
14678 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14679 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
14680 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
14681 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14682 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
14683 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
14684 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
14686 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
14687 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
14690 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
14691 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
14692 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
14693 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
14694 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14696 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14697 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
14698 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
14699 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
14700 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
14701 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14702 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
14703 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
14705 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
14707 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
14708 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
14709 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
14711 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
14712 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
14713 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14715 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14716 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
14717 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14719 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
14720 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
14721 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
14722 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14724 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
14725 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
14726 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
14727 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
14728 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14730 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
14731 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
14732 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
14734 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
14735 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
14736 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
14737 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
14738 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
14739 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14740 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
14741 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
14742 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
14744 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
14745 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
14746 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
14747 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
14750 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
14751 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
14752 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
14753 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
14754 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14756 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14757 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
14758 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
14759 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
14760 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
14761 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
14762 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
14763 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
14765 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
14766 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
14767 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
14768 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
14769 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
14770 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
14771 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
14772 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
14773 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
14776 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
14777 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
14778 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
14779 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14781 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
14782 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
14783 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
14785 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14786 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
14787 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14789 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14790 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14791 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14792 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14793 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14794 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14795 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14796 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14797 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
14798 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
14799 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14800 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
14801 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
14802 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14803 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
14804 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14805 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14806 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14807 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14809 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14810 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
14811 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
14812 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
14813 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
14815 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
14816 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14817 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
14818 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
14819 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
14820 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
14821 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14822 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
14823 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
14824 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14825 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
14826 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
14829 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
14830 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
14831 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
14832 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
14834 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
14835 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14836 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
14839 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14840 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
14841 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
14842 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14844 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
14845 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
14846 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
14847 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
14848 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
14849 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
14852 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
14853 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
14854 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
14855 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
14857 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14858 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
14859 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
14860 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
14861 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
14862 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
14863 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
14864 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
14865 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14867 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
14868 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
14869 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
14870 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
14871 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
14873 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
14874 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
14875 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
14876 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
14878 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14879 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
14880 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
14881 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14882 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
14883 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
14884 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
14885 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
14887 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
14888 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14890 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
14891 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
14892 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
14895 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14896 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
14897 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
14898 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
14900 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
14901 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
14902 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14903 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
14904 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
14905 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14906 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
14907 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
14908 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
14909 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
14910 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14911 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
14912 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
14913 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
14914 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
14915 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14917 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
14918 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
14919 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
14920 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14921 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
14922 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
14923 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
14925 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
14926 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
14927 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
14928 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
14930 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14931 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
14932 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
14934 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
14935 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
14936 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
14937 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
14939 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
14940 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
14941 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
14942 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
14943 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
14944 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
14945 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
14946 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
14947 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
14948 17744. Patch from zerosion.
14949 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
14950 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
14951 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
14952 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
14953 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
14954 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
14955 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
14956 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
14957 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
14958 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
14959 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
14960 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
14964 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
14965 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
14966 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
14967 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
14968 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
14969 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
14970 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
14971 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
14972 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
14973 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
14974 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
14975 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
14977 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
14978 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
14980 o Removed features:
14981 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
14982 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
14983 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
14984 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
14985 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
14986 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
14987 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
14988 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
14991 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
14992 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
14993 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
14994 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
14995 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
14996 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
14997 portion of ticket 16831.
14998 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15000 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15001 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15002 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15003 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15004 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15006 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15007 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15008 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15009 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15012 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
15013 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
15014 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
15016 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15017 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15018 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15019 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15020 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15021 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15024 o Minor features (geoip):
15025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15028 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15029 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
15030 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
15031 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
15032 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15033 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15035 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15036 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
15037 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
15038 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
15039 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
15040 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
15041 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
15042 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15043 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
15044 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15047 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
15048 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
15049 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
15050 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
15051 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
15052 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
15053 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
15054 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
15055 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
15056 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
15057 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
15058 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
15059 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
15060 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
15061 that would make him proud.
15063 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
15065 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
15066 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
15067 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
15068 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
15069 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
15070 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
15071 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
15073 o New system requirements:
15074 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
15075 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
15077 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
15078 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
15079 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
15080 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
15081 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
15082 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
15083 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
15084 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
15085 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
15086 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
15087 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
15088 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
15089 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
15091 o Major features (controller):
15092 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
15093 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
15095 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
15096 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
15097 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
15098 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
15099 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
15100 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
15101 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15103 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
15104 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
15105 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
15106 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
15107 key). Closes ticket 13642.
15108 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
15109 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
15110 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
15111 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
15112 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
15113 Implements part of ticket 12498.
15114 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
15115 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
15116 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
15117 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
15118 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
15119 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
15120 part of ticket 12498.
15121 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
15122 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
15124 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
15125 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
15126 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
15127 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
15128 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
15129 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
15130 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
15131 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
15132 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
15135 o Major features (ECC performance):
15136 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
15137 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
15139 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
15140 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
15141 available. Implements ticket 16535.
15142 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
15143 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
15144 Implements ticket 16467.
15145 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
15146 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
15147 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
15148 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
15150 o Major features (Hidden services):
15151 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
15152 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
15153 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
15154 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
15155 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
15156 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
15157 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
15158 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
15159 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
15160 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
15161 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
15162 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
15164 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
15165 introduction points, which used to change the number of
15166 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
15167 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
15169 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
15170 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
15171 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
15172 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
15173 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
15174 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
15176 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
15177 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15178 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
15179 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
15180 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
15181 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
15183 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15184 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15185 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15186 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15187 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15188 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15189 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15190 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15193 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15194 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15195 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15196 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15198 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
15199 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
15200 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
15201 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
15202 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
15203 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
15206 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
15207 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
15208 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15210 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
15211 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
15212 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
15213 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
15214 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
15215 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15217 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
15218 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15219 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15220 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15221 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15224 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15225 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15226 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15227 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15228 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15229 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15230 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15231 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15234 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
15235 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
15236 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
15237 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
15239 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
15240 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
15241 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
15242 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15243 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
15244 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
15245 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
15248 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
15249 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
15250 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
15251 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
15252 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
15253 own. Implements feature 15482.
15254 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
15255 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
15257 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
15258 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
15259 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
15260 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
15261 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
15263 o Minor features (command-line interface):
15264 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
15265 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15266 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
15267 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
15269 o Minor features (compilation):
15270 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
15271 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
15272 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
15273 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
15274 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
15276 o Minor features (control protocol):
15277 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
15278 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
15280 o Minor features (controller):
15281 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
15282 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
15283 present. Implements ticket 14840.
15284 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
15285 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
15286 Closes ticket 14845.
15287 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
15288 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
15289 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
15291 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15292 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
15293 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
15294 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
15295 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
15296 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
15298 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
15299 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15300 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15301 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15302 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
15303 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
15304 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15306 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
15307 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15308 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15309 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15311 o Minor features (geoip):
15312 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15315 o Minor features (hidden services):
15316 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
15317 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
15318 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
15319 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
15321 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
15322 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
15323 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
15325 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
15326 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
15327 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
15328 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
15329 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
15330 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
15331 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
15332 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
15334 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
15335 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
15336 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
15337 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
15338 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
15339 Closes ticket 15745.
15341 o Minor features (logging):
15342 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
15343 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
15346 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
15347 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
15348 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
15349 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
15351 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
15352 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
15353 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
15354 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
15355 Resolves ticket 15435.
15357 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
15358 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
15359 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
15360 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15361 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
15362 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
15363 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
15364 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15365 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
15366 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
15367 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
15368 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
15369 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
15370 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
15371 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
15372 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
15373 Related to ticket 16069.
15375 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
15376 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
15377 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
15379 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
15380 stderr, not stdout.
15381 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
15382 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
15383 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
15386 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15387 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15388 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15389 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
15390 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
15392 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
15393 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15394 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15395 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15397 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
15398 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
15399 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
15400 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
15401 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
15402 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
15403 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
15404 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15406 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15407 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
15408 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
15409 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15411 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15412 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
15413 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
15415 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
15416 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
15417 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
15419 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
15420 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
15421 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
15422 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15424 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
15425 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15426 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15427 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15428 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15429 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15431 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15432 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15433 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15435 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
15436 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15438 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15439 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
15440 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15441 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
15442 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15443 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
15444 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
15445 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
15447 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
15448 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15449 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15450 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15452 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
15453 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15454 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15456 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
15457 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
15458 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
15461 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15462 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
15463 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
15464 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
15465 recent enough Clang.
15467 o Minor bugfixes (network):
15468 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
15469 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
15470 unsuitable for public communications.
15472 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
15473 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
15474 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
15475 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
15477 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15478 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
15479 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15480 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
15481 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
15483 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
15484 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
15486 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15487 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
15488 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
15489 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
15490 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
15492 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
15493 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15494 from "cypherpunks".
15495 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
15496 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
15499 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
15500 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
15501 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
15502 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
15503 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
15505 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15506 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
15507 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
15508 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
15509 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
15510 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
15512 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
15513 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
15514 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
15515 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15517 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
15518 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
15519 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
15520 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
15521 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
15522 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
15523 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
15524 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
15526 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
15527 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15528 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15530 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15531 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
15532 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
15533 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
15534 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
15535 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
15536 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
15537 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
15538 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
15539 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
15540 function. Closes ticket 16763.
15541 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
15542 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
15544 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
15545 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
15546 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
15547 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
15548 haven't supported that in ages.
15549 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
15550 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
15551 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
15552 suite of other microdesc functions.
15553 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
15554 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
15555 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
15556 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
15557 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
15558 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
15559 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
15560 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
15561 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
15562 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
15563 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
15564 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
15565 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
15566 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
15567 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
15568 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
15570 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
15571 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
15575 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
15576 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
15577 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
15579 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
15580 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15581 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
15582 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
15583 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
15584 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
15585 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
15586 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
15587 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
15588 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
15590 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
15592 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
15593 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
15594 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
15595 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
15596 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
15597 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
15598 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
15599 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
15600 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
15601 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
15602 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
15603 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
15604 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
15606 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
15607 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15610 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
15611 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
15612 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
15613 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
15614 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
15615 Closes ticket 14922.
15616 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
15617 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
15618 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
15619 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
15620 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
15621 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
15622 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
15623 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
15624 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
15625 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
15626 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
15627 Closes ticket 13338.
15629 o Removed features:
15630 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
15631 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
15632 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
15633 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
15634 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
15635 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
15636 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
15637 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
15638 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
15639 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
15640 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
15641 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
15642 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
15643 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
15644 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
15647 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
15648 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
15649 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
15650 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
15651 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
15652 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
15653 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
15654 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
15655 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
15656 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
15657 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
15659 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
15660 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
15661 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
15662 Closes ticket 15817.
15663 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
15664 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
15665 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
15666 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
15667 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
15668 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
15669 network before we begin.
15670 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
15671 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
15672 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
15673 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
15674 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
15675 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
15677 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
15678 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
15680 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
15681 default as a part of "make check".
15682 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
15683 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
15684 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
15685 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
15686 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
15687 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
15688 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
15689 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
15690 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
15691 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
15692 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
15693 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
15694 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
15695 files. Closes ticket 15180.
15696 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
15697 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
15698 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
15699 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
15700 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
15701 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
15702 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
15703 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
15704 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
15705 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
15706 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
15707 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
15708 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
15709 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
15710 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
15711 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
15712 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
15714 - Set the severity correctly when testing
15715 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
15716 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
15717 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
15718 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
15720 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
15721 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
15722 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
15723 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
15724 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
15725 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
15727 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
15728 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15729 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15730 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15731 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15732 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15733 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15734 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15737 o Major bugfixes (stability):
15738 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15739 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15740 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15741 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15742 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15743 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15744 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15747 o Minor features (geoip):
15748 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15749 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15751 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
15752 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15753 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15754 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15755 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15756 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15758 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15759 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15760 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15761 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15764 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
15765 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
15766 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
15767 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
15768 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
15770 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
15771 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15772 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
15773 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
15774 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
15777 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
15778 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15779 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15780 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15781 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
15782 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
15783 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15785 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15786 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15787 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15788 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15790 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15791 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
15792 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
15793 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
15794 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
15795 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
15798 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15799 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
15800 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15803 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
15804 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
15805 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
15806 authorities should upgrade.
15808 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15809 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
15810 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
15811 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
15814 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15815 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15816 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15819 o Minor features (geoip):
15820 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15821 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15825 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
15826 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
15827 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
15828 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
15829 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15831 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
15832 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15834 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15835 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15836 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15837 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15838 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15839 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15840 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15842 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15843 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15844 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15845 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15846 Resolves ticket 15515.
15847 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
15848 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
15849 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
15853 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
15854 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15855 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15856 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15857 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15859 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15860 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15862 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15863 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15864 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15865 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15866 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15867 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15868 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15870 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15871 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15872 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15873 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15874 Resolves ticket 15515.
15877 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
15878 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
15879 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
15880 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
15881 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
15883 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
15884 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
15886 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
15887 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
15888 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
15889 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
15890 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
15891 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
15892 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
15894 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
15895 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
15896 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
15897 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
15898 Resolves ticket 15515.
15901 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
15902 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
15904 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
15905 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
15906 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
15907 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
15908 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
15909 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
15910 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
15911 bugs should be addressed.
15913 o New compiler and system requirements:
15914 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
15915 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
15916 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
15917 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
15919 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
15920 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
15921 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
15922 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
15923 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
15924 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
15925 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
15926 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
15927 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
15929 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
15930 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
15931 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
15932 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
15933 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
15934 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
15935 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
15937 o Directory authority changes:
15938 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
15939 closes ticket 14487.
15940 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
15941 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
15942 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
15944 o Major features (bridges):
15945 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
15946 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
15947 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
15950 o Major features (changed defaults):
15951 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
15952 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
15953 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
15954 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
15955 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
15956 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
15958 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
15959 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
15960 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
15961 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
15964 o Major features (directory system):
15965 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
15966 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
15967 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
15968 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
15969 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
15970 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
15971 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
15972 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
15973 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
15974 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
15975 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
15976 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
15977 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
15978 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
15979 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
15980 227. Closes ticket 10395.
15982 o Major features (guards):
15983 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
15984 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
15985 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
15986 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
15987 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
15989 o Major features (hidden services):
15990 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
15991 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
15992 Closes ticket 13667.
15993 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
15994 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
15995 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
15996 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
15997 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
15998 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
15999 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
16000 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
16001 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
16002 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
16003 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
16005 o Major features (performance):
16006 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
16007 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
16008 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
16009 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
16010 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
16011 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
16012 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
16013 Implements ticket 9682.
16015 o Major features (relay):
16016 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
16017 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
16018 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
16019 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
16020 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
16021 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
16022 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
16023 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
16025 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
16026 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
16027 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
16028 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
16029 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
16030 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
16031 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
16034 o Major features (sample torrc):
16035 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
16036 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
16037 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
16038 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
16039 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
16040 generally useful "sample torrc".
16042 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
16043 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
16044 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
16045 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
16046 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
16047 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
16049 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
16050 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
16051 Implements ticket 11485.
16053 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
16054 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
16055 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
16056 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
16057 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
16058 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
16061 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16062 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16063 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16066 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16067 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
16068 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16070 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
16071 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
16072 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
16073 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
16074 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16076 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16077 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16078 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16079 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16081 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
16082 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
16083 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
16086 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16087 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
16088 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
16089 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
16090 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
16091 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
16093 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16094 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16095 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16096 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16098 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
16099 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
16100 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
16101 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
16102 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
16103 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
16104 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
16106 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16107 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
16108 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
16109 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
16110 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
16111 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16113 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16114 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16115 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
16116 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16117 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16118 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16119 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16120 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16122 o Minor features (build):
16123 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
16124 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
16125 Resolves ticket 13037.
16127 o Minor features (client):
16128 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
16129 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
16130 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
16131 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
16133 o Minor features (client):
16134 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
16135 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
16136 Resolves ticket 13315.
16138 o Minor features (controller):
16139 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
16140 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
16142 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
16143 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
16145 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
16146 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
16147 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
16148 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16149 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16150 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16151 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
16152 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
16153 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
16155 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
16156 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
16157 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
16158 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
16159 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
16160 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
16161 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
16162 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
16163 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
16164 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
16166 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16167 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
16168 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
16169 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
16170 argument more than once.
16171 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
16172 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
16173 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
16174 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
16175 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
16176 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
16178 o Minor features (geoip):
16179 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16180 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16183 o Minor features (guard nodes):
16184 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
16185 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
16186 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
16188 o Minor features (heartbeat):
16189 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
16190 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
16191 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
16192 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
16194 o Minor features (hidden service):
16195 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
16196 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
16197 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
16198 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
16199 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
16200 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
16201 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
16202 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
16203 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
16204 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
16205 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
16206 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
16207 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
16208 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
16210 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
16211 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
16212 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
16214 o Minor features (interface):
16215 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
16216 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
16217 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
16219 o Minor features (logging):
16220 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
16221 Resolves ticket 6852.
16222 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
16223 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
16224 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
16226 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
16227 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
16228 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
16229 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
16230 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
16231 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
16232 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
16233 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
16234 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
16235 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
16236 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
16237 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
16240 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
16241 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
16242 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
16243 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
16245 o Minor features (relay):
16246 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
16247 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
16248 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
16250 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
16251 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
16252 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
16253 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
16254 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
16255 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
16256 document. Implements feature 10427.
16258 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
16259 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
16260 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
16261 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
16263 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
16264 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
16265 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
16266 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
16267 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
16268 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
16270 o Minor features (stability):
16271 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
16272 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
16275 o Minor features (systemd):
16276 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
16277 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
16278 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
16279 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
16280 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
16281 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
16283 o Minor features (testing networks):
16284 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
16285 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
16286 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
16287 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
16288 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
16290 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
16291 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
16292 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
16293 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
16294 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
16295 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
16297 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
16298 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
16299 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
16300 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
16301 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
16303 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
16304 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
16305 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
16306 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
16307 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
16309 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
16310 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
16311 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
16312 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
16313 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
16316 o Minor features (validation):
16317 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
16318 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
16319 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
16320 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
16321 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
16322 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
16323 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
16324 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
16325 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
16326 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
16327 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
16330 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
16331 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
16332 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
16333 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16335 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16336 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
16337 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
16338 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
16340 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
16341 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
16342 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
16344 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
16345 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
16346 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
16348 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
16349 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16350 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
16351 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
16352 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16353 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
16354 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
16356 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
16357 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
16358 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
16359 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16360 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
16361 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
16362 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
16363 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
16364 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
16366 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16367 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
16368 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
16369 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
16370 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
16371 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16372 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
16373 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
16374 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
16376 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16377 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16378 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16379 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16380 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16381 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16382 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
16383 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
16385 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
16386 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
16387 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
16390 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
16391 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
16392 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
16393 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
16394 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16396 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
16397 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
16398 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
16399 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16400 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
16401 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
16402 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
16403 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16405 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
16406 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
16407 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
16408 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
16409 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16411 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
16412 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
16413 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
16414 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
16415 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
16417 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
16418 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
16419 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16421 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
16422 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
16423 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
16424 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
16425 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
16427 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
16428 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
16429 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
16431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16432 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
16434 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
16435 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
16436 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
16437 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
16439 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
16440 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
16442 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
16443 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
16444 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
16445 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
16446 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
16447 Addresses ticket 14188.
16448 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16449 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16450 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16451 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
16452 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
16453 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
16454 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
16455 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16456 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
16457 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
16458 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
16461 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16462 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
16463 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
16464 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
16465 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
16466 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16468 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16469 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
16470 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
16471 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
16472 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
16474 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16475 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16476 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16477 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16478 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16479 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
16480 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
16481 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16482 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
16483 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16484 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16485 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16486 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16487 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
16488 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
16489 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16491 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
16492 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
16493 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
16494 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16495 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
16496 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
16497 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
16498 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
16501 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
16502 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
16503 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
16504 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
16505 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
16506 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
16507 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
16508 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
16509 state, and key files.
16510 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
16511 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
16514 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16515 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
16516 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
16517 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
16518 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16519 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
16520 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
16521 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16522 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
16523 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
16524 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
16525 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
16526 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
16527 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
16528 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
16529 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
16530 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
16531 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
16534 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16535 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
16536 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
16537 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
16538 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
16539 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
16540 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
16541 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
16542 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
16543 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16545 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16546 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
16547 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16548 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
16549 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
16550 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
16552 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
16553 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
16555 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
16556 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
16557 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
16558 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
16559 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16561 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
16562 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
16563 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
16564 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
16565 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
16566 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16568 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16569 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
16570 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
16572 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
16573 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
16574 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16576 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16577 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16578 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16579 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16580 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16582 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
16583 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
16584 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
16587 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16588 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
16589 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
16590 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
16591 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
16594 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
16595 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
16596 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
16597 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
16600 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
16601 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
16602 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
16605 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16606 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16607 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16609 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
16610 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
16611 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
16612 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
16613 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
16616 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
16617 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
16618 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16619 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
16620 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
16621 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
16623 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
16624 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
16625 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
16626 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
16627 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
16628 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
16630 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
16631 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
16632 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
16633 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
16634 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16635 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
16636 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
16637 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
16638 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
16639 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
16640 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
16641 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
16642 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
16643 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
16644 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
16645 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
16646 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
16647 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
16648 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
16649 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16650 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
16651 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
16652 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
16653 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
16654 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
16655 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
16656 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
16657 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16658 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
16659 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
16660 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
16661 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
16663 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
16664 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
16665 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
16666 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
16667 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16669 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16670 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
16671 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
16672 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
16673 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
16674 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16675 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
16676 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
16677 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16679 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
16680 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
16681 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
16683 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
16684 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
16685 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
16688 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
16689 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
16690 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
16691 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
16694 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
16695 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
16696 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16698 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16699 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
16700 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
16702 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
16703 Resolves ticket 12205.
16704 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
16705 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
16706 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
16707 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
16709 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
16710 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
16711 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
16713 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
16714 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
16716 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
16717 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
16718 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
16719 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
16720 or_options_t structure.
16721 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
16722 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
16723 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
16724 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
16725 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
16726 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
16727 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
16728 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
16730 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
16731 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
16733 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
16735 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
16736 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
16737 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
16738 with a function instead.
16739 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
16740 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
16741 Closes ticket 13172.
16742 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
16743 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
16744 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
16745 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
16746 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
16747 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
16748 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
16749 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
16750 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
16751 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
16752 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
16753 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
16757 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
16758 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
16759 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
16760 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
16762 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
16763 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
16764 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
16765 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16766 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
16767 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
16768 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
16769 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
16770 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
16771 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
16772 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
16773 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
16774 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
16775 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
16776 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
16777 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
16778 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
16779 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
16781 o Distribution (systemd):
16782 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
16783 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
16784 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
16785 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
16786 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
16788 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
16789 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
16791 o Downgraded warnings:
16792 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
16793 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
16796 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
16797 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
16798 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
16801 o Removed features (directory authorities):
16802 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
16803 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
16804 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
16805 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
16806 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
16807 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
16808 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
16809 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
16810 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
16812 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
16813 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
16814 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
16815 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
16818 o Removed features:
16819 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
16820 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
16821 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
16822 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
16823 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
16825 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
16826 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
16827 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
16828 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
16829 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
16830 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
16831 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
16832 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
16833 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
16835 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
16836 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
16838 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
16839 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
16840 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
16841 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
16842 anymore, and ignore it.
16844 o Removed platform support:
16845 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
16846 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
16847 Closes ticket 11446.
16849 o Testing (test-network.sh):
16850 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
16851 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
16853 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
16855 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
16856 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
16857 Partially implements ticket 13161.
16860 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
16861 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
16862 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
16863 (existing behavior).
16864 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
16865 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
16866 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
16867 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
16868 Closes ticket 14107.
16869 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
16870 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
16871 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
16872 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
16874 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
16875 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
16876 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
16877 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
16878 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
16879 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
16881 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
16883 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
16884 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
16885 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
16886 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16887 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
16888 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
16889 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
16890 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
16891 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
16892 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
16893 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
16894 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
16896 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
16897 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
16898 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
16900 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16901 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16903 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16904 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16905 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16907 o Directory authority changes:
16908 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16909 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16910 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16911 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16912 closes ticket 14487.
16914 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16915 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16916 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16919 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16920 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16921 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16922 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16923 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16924 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16925 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16926 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16928 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16929 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16930 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16931 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16933 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16934 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16935 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16936 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16938 o Minor features (controller):
16939 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16940 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16941 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16943 o Minor features (geoip):
16944 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16945 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16948 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16949 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16950 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16951 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16952 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16953 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16955 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16956 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16957 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16958 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16960 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16961 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16962 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16963 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16964 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16965 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16966 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16967 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16969 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16970 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16971 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16973 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16974 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16975 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16976 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16977 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16981 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
16982 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
16983 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
16986 o Directory authority changes:
16987 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16988 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16989 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16990 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16991 closes ticket 14487.
16993 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
16994 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16995 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16996 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16998 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
16999 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17000 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17001 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17002 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17003 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17004 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17005 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17007 o Minor features (geoip):
17008 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17009 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17012 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
17013 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17015 It adds several new security features, including improved
17016 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
17017 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
17018 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
17019 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
17020 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
17021 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
17022 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
17023 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
17024 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
17025 and features mentioned below.
17027 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
17028 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
17030 o Major features (security):
17031 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
17032 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
17033 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
17034 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
17035 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
17036 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
17037 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
17038 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17039 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17040 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17042 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
17043 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
17044 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
17045 streams attached to each circuit.
17047 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
17048 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
17049 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
17050 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
17051 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
17052 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
17053 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
17054 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
17055 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
17056 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
17057 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
17058 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
17059 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
17061 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
17062 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
17063 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
17064 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
17066 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
17067 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
17068 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
17069 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
17070 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
17071 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
17073 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
17074 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
17075 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
17076 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
17077 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
17078 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
17079 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
17080 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
17083 o Major features (controller):
17084 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
17085 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
17086 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
17087 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
17088 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
17089 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
17091 o Major features (relay performance):
17092 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
17093 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
17094 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
17095 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
17096 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
17097 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
17098 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
17099 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
17100 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
17101 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
17103 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
17104 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
17105 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
17106 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
17107 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
17108 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
17109 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
17110 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
17111 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
17112 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
17114 o Major features (testing networks):
17115 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
17116 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
17117 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
17118 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
17119 Implements ticket 8530.
17121 o Major features (other):
17122 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
17123 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
17124 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
17125 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
17126 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
17127 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
17129 o Deprecated versions:
17130 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
17131 attention for some while.
17133 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
17134 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
17135 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
17137 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
17138 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
17139 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
17140 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
17141 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
17142 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
17143 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
17144 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
17145 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
17146 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
17147 router's identity is not forgeable.
17149 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
17150 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17151 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
17152 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17154 o Major bugfixes (client):
17155 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
17156 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
17157 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
17158 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
17159 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
17160 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
17161 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
17162 to build circuits".
17164 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
17165 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
17166 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
17167 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
17170 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
17171 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
17172 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
17173 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
17174 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
17175 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
17176 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17178 o Major bugfixes (relay):
17179 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
17180 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17181 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17182 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
17183 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
17184 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
17185 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17186 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
17187 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
17188 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
17189 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
17190 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
17191 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
17192 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
17193 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
17194 bugfix on every version of Tor.
17196 o Minor features (security):
17197 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
17198 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
17199 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
17200 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
17202 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
17203 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
17204 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
17205 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
17206 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
17207 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
17208 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
17210 o Minor features (security, memory management):
17211 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
17212 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
17213 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
17214 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
17215 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
17216 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
17218 o Minor features (bridge client):
17219 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
17220 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
17221 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
17223 o Minor features (bridge):
17224 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
17225 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
17227 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
17228 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
17229 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
17230 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
17231 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
17232 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
17233 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
17234 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
17235 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
17236 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
17237 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
17238 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
17239 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
17240 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
17241 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
17243 o Minor features (build):
17244 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
17245 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
17246 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
17247 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
17248 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
17249 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
17250 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
17251 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
17252 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
17253 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
17254 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
17255 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
17256 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
17257 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
17258 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
17261 o Minor features (client):
17262 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
17263 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
17264 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
17265 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
17267 o Minor features (config options and command line):
17268 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
17269 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
17270 Implements ticket 10060.
17271 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
17272 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
17273 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
17275 o Minor features (config options):
17276 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
17277 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
17278 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
17279 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
17280 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
17281 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
17282 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
17283 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
17284 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
17285 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
17286 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
17287 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
17288 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
17289 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
17290 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
17291 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
17292 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
17295 o Minor features (controller):
17296 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
17297 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
17299 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
17300 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
17301 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
17302 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
17303 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
17304 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
17305 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
17306 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
17308 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
17309 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
17310 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
17312 o Minor features (diagnostic):
17313 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
17314 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
17315 help diagnose bug 7164.
17316 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
17317 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
17318 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
17319 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
17320 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
17322 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
17323 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
17324 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
17325 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
17326 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
17327 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
17328 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
17329 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
17330 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
17331 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
17332 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
17333 still referenced by a live node_t object.
17334 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
17335 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
17336 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17338 o Minor features (geoip):
17339 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17342 o Minor features (interface):
17343 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
17344 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
17345 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
17346 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
17348 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
17349 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
17350 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
17352 o Minor features (log messages):
17353 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
17354 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
17355 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
17356 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
17357 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
17358 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
17359 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
17360 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
17362 o Minor features (log verbosity):
17363 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
17364 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
17365 Resolves ticket 5286.
17366 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
17367 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
17368 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
17369 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
17370 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
17371 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
17373 o Minor features (performance):
17374 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
17375 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
17376 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
17377 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
17378 Closes ticket 8109.
17380 o Minor features (relay):
17381 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
17382 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
17383 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
17385 o Minor features (testing):
17386 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
17387 the unit test scripts.
17388 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
17389 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
17390 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
17391 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
17393 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
17394 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
17395 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
17396 10267; patch from "yurivict".
17397 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
17398 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
17399 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
17400 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
17401 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
17402 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
17404 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
17405 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
17406 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
17407 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17409 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17410 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
17411 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
17412 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17413 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
17414 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
17415 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
17416 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
17417 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
17418 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
17420 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
17421 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
17422 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
17424 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
17425 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
17426 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
17427 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
17428 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17430 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17431 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
17432 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
17433 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
17434 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17435 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
17436 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
17437 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
17438 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17439 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
17440 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
17441 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
17443 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
17444 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
17445 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
17446 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
17447 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
17448 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17449 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
17450 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
17451 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17452 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
17453 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
17454 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17456 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
17457 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
17458 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
17459 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
17461 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
17462 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
17463 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
17464 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
17467 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
17468 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
17469 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
17470 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17471 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
17472 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
17475 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
17476 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
17477 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
17478 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
17479 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
17481 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
17482 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
17483 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
17486 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17487 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
17488 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
17489 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
17490 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
17491 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
17492 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
17493 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
17494 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
17495 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
17497 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
17498 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
17499 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
17500 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
17501 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
17503 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
17504 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17506 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17507 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
17508 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
17509 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
17510 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
17511 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
17512 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
17513 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
17514 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
17515 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17516 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
17517 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
17518 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
17520 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
17521 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
17522 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
17523 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
17524 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
17525 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
17526 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
17527 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
17528 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
17529 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
17530 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
17531 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
17532 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
17534 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
17535 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
17536 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
17538 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
17539 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
17540 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
17541 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
17542 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
17543 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
17545 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
17546 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
17547 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
17548 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17549 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
17550 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
17551 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
17552 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
17553 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
17554 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17556 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17557 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
17558 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17560 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
17561 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
17562 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
17563 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
17564 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17566 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17567 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
17568 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
17569 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17570 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
17571 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
17572 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
17573 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
17574 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
17575 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
17576 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
17577 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
17578 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
17579 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
17581 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17582 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
17583 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
17584 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
17585 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17586 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
17587 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
17588 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
17589 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
17591 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
17592 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
17593 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17594 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
17595 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
17596 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
17597 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
17599 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
17600 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
17602 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
17603 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
17604 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
17605 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
17607 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
17608 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
17609 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
17610 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17611 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
17612 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
17613 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
17614 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
17615 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
17616 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
17617 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
17618 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
17619 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
17620 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
17621 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
17622 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
17623 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
17625 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
17626 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
17627 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
17628 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
17629 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
17630 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
17631 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
17632 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
17635 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
17636 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
17637 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
17638 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
17639 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
17640 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
17641 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17642 Reported by "mr-4".
17643 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
17644 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
17645 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
17646 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17648 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17649 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
17650 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
17651 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
17652 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
17653 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
17654 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
17655 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
17656 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17657 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
17658 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
17659 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
17661 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
17662 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
17663 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
17665 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
17666 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
17667 early. Fixes bug 10081.
17669 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17670 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
17671 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
17672 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
17675 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
17676 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
17677 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
17678 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
17681 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
17682 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
17683 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
17684 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
17686 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
17687 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
17688 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17690 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
17691 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
17692 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
17693 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
17694 versions. Found by "skruffy".
17695 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
17696 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
17697 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
17700 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
17701 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
17702 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17703 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
17704 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
17705 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
17706 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
17707 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
17708 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17709 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
17710 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
17712 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17713 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
17714 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
17715 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
17716 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
17718 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
17719 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
17720 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
17721 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
17724 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
17725 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
17726 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17727 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
17728 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
17729 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
17730 should never have affected anyone in practice.
17732 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17733 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
17734 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
17735 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
17736 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
17737 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
17738 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
17739 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
17740 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
17741 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17742 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
17743 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
17744 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
17745 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
17746 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
17747 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
17748 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17749 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
17750 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
17751 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
17752 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
17753 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
17754 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
17755 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
17757 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
17758 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
17759 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
17760 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
17761 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17762 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
17763 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
17764 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
17765 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
17767 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
17768 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
17771 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
17772 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
17774 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
17776 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
17777 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
17778 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
17779 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
17780 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
17781 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
17783 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
17784 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
17786 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
17787 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
17788 caches don't get confused.
17789 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
17790 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17791 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
17792 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
17793 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
17794 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
17795 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
17796 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
17797 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
17798 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
17799 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
17800 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
17801 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
17802 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
17803 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17804 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
17805 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
17806 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17809 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
17810 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
17811 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
17812 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
17813 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
17815 o Removed code and features:
17816 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
17817 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
17818 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
17819 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
17820 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
17821 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
17823 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
17824 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
17825 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
17826 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
17827 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
17828 part of a fix for bug 10841.
17829 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
17830 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
17831 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
17832 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
17833 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
17834 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
17836 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
17837 Resolves ticket 11070.
17838 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
17839 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
17840 the rest of bug 10841.
17841 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
17842 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
17843 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
17844 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
17846 o Test infrastructure:
17847 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
17848 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
17849 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
17850 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
17851 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
17852 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
17853 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
17854 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
17855 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
17856 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
17858 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
17859 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
17860 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
17861 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
17862 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
17863 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
17864 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
17865 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
17866 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
17867 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
17868 invoking the other functions it calls.
17871 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
17872 Patch from Dana Koch.
17873 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
17874 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
17875 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
17876 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
17878 o Distribution (systemd):
17879 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
17880 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
17881 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
17882 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
17883 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
17884 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
17885 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
17886 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
17887 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
17888 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
17889 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
17890 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
17891 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17895 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
17896 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17897 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17898 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17899 (which does affect Tor).
17901 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17902 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17903 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17904 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17906 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17907 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17908 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17909 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17912 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
17913 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17914 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17915 the directory authorities.
17918 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17919 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17920 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17921 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17922 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17923 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17924 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
17925 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
17926 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
17927 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
17928 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
17929 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17931 o Directory authority changes:
17932 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17934 o Minor features (geoip):
17935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17939 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
17940 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
17941 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
17942 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
17945 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
17946 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
17947 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
17948 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
17949 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
17950 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
17951 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
17952 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
17953 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
17954 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
17957 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
17958 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
17959 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
17960 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
17961 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
17962 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
17963 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
17964 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
17968 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
17969 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
17970 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
17971 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
17972 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
17973 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
17974 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
17975 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
17976 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17977 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
17978 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
17979 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
17980 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
17983 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17987 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
17988 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
17989 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
17990 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
17991 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
17992 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
17993 of RAM, and several others.
17995 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
17996 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
17997 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
17998 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
17999 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18001 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18002 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18003 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18004 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18007 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18008 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18009 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18010 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18011 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18012 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18013 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18014 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18015 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18016 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18017 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18018 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18019 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18020 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18021 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18022 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18023 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18024 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18025 Resolves ticket 11438.
18027 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
18028 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
18029 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18030 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
18031 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18032 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18034 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18035 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18036 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18038 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18039 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18040 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18042 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18043 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18044 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18045 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18047 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18048 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18049 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18051 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18052 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
18053 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18056 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
18057 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
18058 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
18059 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
18062 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18063 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18064 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18065 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18067 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18068 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
18069 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
18070 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
18072 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18073 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
18074 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
18078 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
18079 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
18080 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
18081 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
18083 o Major features (client security):
18084 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
18085 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
18086 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
18087 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
18088 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
18089 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
18092 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
18093 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
18094 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
18095 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18097 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18098 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
18099 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
18100 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
18101 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
18104 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
18105 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
18107 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
18108 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
18109 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
18110 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
18111 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
18112 GeoLite2 Country database.
18115 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
18116 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
18117 bugfix on every released Tor.
18118 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
18119 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
18120 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
18121 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18122 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
18123 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
18124 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
18125 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
18126 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
18127 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18128 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
18129 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
18130 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18131 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
18132 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18134 o Documentation fixes:
18135 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
18136 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18139 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
18140 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
18141 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
18142 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
18143 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
18144 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
18145 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
18147 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
18148 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
18151 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
18152 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
18153 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
18154 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
18155 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
18156 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
18157 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
18158 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
18160 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
18161 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18162 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
18163 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
18164 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
18165 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
18168 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
18169 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18170 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
18171 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
18172 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
18175 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
18176 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
18177 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
18178 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
18179 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
18180 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
18181 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
18182 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
18184 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
18185 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
18186 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
18187 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
18188 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
18189 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
18190 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
18191 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
18192 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
18193 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
18194 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
18195 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
18196 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
18197 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
18198 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
18199 security, and privacy fixes.
18201 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
18202 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
18203 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
18204 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
18205 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
18206 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
18207 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
18208 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
18209 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
18210 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
18211 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
18213 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
18214 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
18215 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
18217 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
18219 o Major features (better link encryption):
18220 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
18221 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
18222 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
18223 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
18224 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
18225 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
18228 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
18229 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
18230 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
18231 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
18233 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
18235 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
18236 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
18237 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
18238 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
18239 them to solve bug 6033.)
18241 o Major features (relay performance):
18242 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
18243 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
18244 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
18245 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
18246 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
18247 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
18248 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
18249 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
18250 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
18251 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
18252 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
18253 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
18254 Implements ticket 9574.
18256 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
18257 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
18258 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
18259 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
18260 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
18261 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
18262 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
18263 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
18264 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
18265 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
18266 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
18267 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
18268 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
18269 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
18270 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
18271 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
18273 o Major features (use of guards):
18274 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
18275 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
18276 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
18277 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
18278 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
18279 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
18280 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
18281 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
18282 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
18283 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
18284 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
18285 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
18286 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
18287 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18289 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
18290 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
18291 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
18292 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
18294 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
18295 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
18298 o Major features (geoip database):
18299 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
18300 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
18301 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
18302 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
18303 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
18304 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
18306 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
18308 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18310 o Major features (IPv6):
18311 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
18312 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
18313 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
18314 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
18315 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
18316 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
18317 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
18318 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
18319 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
18320 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
18321 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
18322 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
18323 revised in proposal 208.
18324 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
18325 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
18326 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
18328 o Major features (directory authorities):
18329 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
18330 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
18332 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
18333 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
18334 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
18335 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
18336 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
18337 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
18338 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
18339 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
18340 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
18341 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
18342 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
18344 o Major features (build and portability):
18345 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
18346 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
18347 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
18348 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
18349 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
18350 fixes by Jim Meyering.
18351 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
18352 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
18353 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
18354 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
18355 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
18356 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
18358 o Security features:
18359 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
18360 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
18361 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
18362 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
18363 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
18364 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
18365 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
18366 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
18367 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
18370 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18371 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
18372 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
18373 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
18374 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
18375 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
18376 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
18377 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
18378 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
18379 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
18380 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
18381 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
18382 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
18383 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
18384 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18385 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
18386 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
18387 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
18389 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
18390 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
18391 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
18392 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
18394 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
18395 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
18396 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
18398 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
18399 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
18400 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18401 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
18402 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
18403 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
18404 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
18405 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
18406 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
18408 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
18409 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18411 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
18412 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
18413 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
18414 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
18415 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
18416 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
18417 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
18418 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
18419 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
18420 last time we raised it).
18421 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
18422 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
18423 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
18425 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18426 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
18427 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
18428 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
18429 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
18430 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
18431 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
18432 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
18433 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
18434 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
18435 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
18436 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
18437 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18439 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
18440 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
18441 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
18442 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
18443 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
18444 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
18445 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
18446 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
18447 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18448 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
18449 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
18450 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
18451 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
18453 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
18454 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
18455 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
18456 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
18457 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
18458 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
18459 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
18460 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
18461 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18463 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
18464 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
18465 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
18466 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
18467 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
18468 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
18469 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
18470 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
18471 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
18472 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
18473 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
18474 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
18475 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
18476 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
18477 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
18478 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
18479 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
18482 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
18483 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
18484 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
18485 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18487 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
18488 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
18489 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
18490 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
18492 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
18493 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
18494 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
18495 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
18496 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
18497 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
18500 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
18501 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
18502 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
18503 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
18504 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
18505 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
18506 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18508 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
18509 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
18510 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
18511 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18513 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18514 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
18515 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
18516 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
18517 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18518 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
18519 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
18520 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
18522 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
18523 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
18524 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
18526 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
18527 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
18528 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18530 o Internal abstraction features:
18531 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
18532 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
18533 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
18534 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
18535 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
18536 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
18537 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
18538 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
18539 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
18540 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
18541 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
18542 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
18543 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
18544 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
18545 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
18546 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
18547 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
18549 o New build requirements:
18550 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
18551 strongly recommended.
18552 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
18553 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
18554 from a source distribution.)
18556 o Minor features (protocol):
18557 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
18558 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
18560 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
18561 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
18562 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
18563 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
18564 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
18565 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
18566 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
18567 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
18568 closes ticket 7199.
18569 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
18570 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
18572 o Minor features (security):
18573 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
18574 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
18575 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
18576 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
18577 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
18578 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
18579 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
18580 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
18581 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
18583 o Minor features (control protocol):
18584 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
18586 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
18587 Implements ticket 4971.
18588 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
18589 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
18590 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
18591 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
18592 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
18594 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
18595 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
18597 o Minor features (path selection):
18598 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
18599 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
18600 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
18601 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
18602 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
18603 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
18604 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
18605 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
18606 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
18607 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
18608 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
18609 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
18610 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
18611 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
18613 o Minor features (hidden services):
18614 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
18615 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
18616 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
18617 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
18618 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
18619 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
18620 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
18621 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
18622 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
18623 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
18624 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
18625 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
18626 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
18628 o Minor features (clients):
18629 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
18630 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
18631 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
18632 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
18633 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
18634 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
18635 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
18636 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
18637 the ORPort and the DirPort.
18639 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
18640 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
18641 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
18642 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
18643 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
18644 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
18645 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
18646 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
18647 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
18648 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
18649 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
18650 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
18651 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
18652 Implements part of proposal 222.
18654 o Minor features (bridges):
18655 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
18656 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
18657 bugs 1913 and 1992.
18658 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
18659 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
18660 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
18661 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
18662 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
18663 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
18664 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
18665 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
18666 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
18667 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
18668 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
18670 o Minor features (relays):
18671 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
18672 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
18674 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
18675 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
18676 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
18677 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
18678 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
18679 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
18680 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
18681 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
18682 connect to the wrong addresses.
18683 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
18684 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
18685 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
18686 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
18689 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
18690 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
18691 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
18692 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
18693 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
18694 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
18696 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18697 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
18698 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
18699 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
18701 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
18702 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
18703 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
18704 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
18705 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
18706 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
18708 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
18709 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
18710 Implements ticket 8151.
18711 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
18712 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
18713 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
18714 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
18716 o Minor features (path bias detection):
18717 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
18718 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
18719 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
18720 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
18721 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
18722 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
18723 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
18724 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
18725 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
18726 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
18727 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
18728 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
18729 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
18730 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
18731 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
18732 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
18733 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
18734 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
18735 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
18736 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
18737 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
18738 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
18739 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
18740 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
18741 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
18742 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
18743 detection capability loss.
18745 o Minor features (build):
18746 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
18747 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
18748 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
18750 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
18751 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
18752 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18754 o Build improvements (autotools):
18755 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
18756 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
18757 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
18759 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
18760 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
18761 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
18762 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
18764 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
18765 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
18766 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
18767 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
18768 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
18769 than to perform erroneously.
18770 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
18772 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
18773 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
18774 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
18776 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
18777 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
18778 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
18779 hard-to-track-down errors.
18780 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
18781 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
18782 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
18783 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
18784 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
18785 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
18786 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
18787 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18788 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
18789 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
18790 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
18792 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
18793 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
18794 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
18795 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
18796 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
18797 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
18798 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
18799 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
18800 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
18801 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
18803 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
18804 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
18805 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
18806 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
18807 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
18808 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
18809 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
18810 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
18811 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
18812 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
18813 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
18814 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
18815 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
18817 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
18818 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
18819 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
18820 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
18821 or at least make it more diagnosable.
18822 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
18823 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
18824 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
18825 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
18827 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
18828 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
18829 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
18830 part of ticket 6736.
18831 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
18832 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
18833 Resolves ticket 6758.
18834 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
18835 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
18836 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
18837 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18838 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
18839 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
18840 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
18842 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
18843 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
18844 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
18845 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18847 o Minor features (testing):
18848 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
18849 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
18851 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
18852 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
18853 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
18856 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
18857 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
18859 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
18860 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
18861 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
18862 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
18863 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
18864 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
18865 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
18866 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18867 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18868 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
18869 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
18870 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
18871 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
18872 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
18873 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
18874 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
18875 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
18877 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
18878 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
18879 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
18880 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
18881 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
18882 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
18883 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
18884 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
18885 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
18886 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
18887 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
18888 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
18889 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
18890 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
18891 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
18892 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
18893 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
18894 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18895 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
18896 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
18899 o Minor fixes (config options):
18900 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
18901 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
18902 or we just won't work.)
18903 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
18904 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
18905 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
18906 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18907 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18908 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18909 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18910 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18911 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
18912 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
18913 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
18914 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18915 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18916 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
18917 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
18918 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18919 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
18920 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
18921 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
18923 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
18924 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
18925 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
18927 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
18928 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
18929 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
18930 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
18932 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
18933 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
18934 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
18935 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
18936 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
18937 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18938 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
18939 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
18940 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
18941 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
18942 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18943 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
18944 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
18945 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
18946 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
18947 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
18950 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
18951 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
18952 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
18953 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
18954 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
18955 Should help resolve bug 8235.
18956 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
18957 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
18958 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
18959 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18960 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
18961 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
18962 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
18963 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
18964 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
18965 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
18966 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18968 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18969 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
18970 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
18971 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
18972 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
18973 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
18974 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
18975 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
18977 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
18978 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
18979 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
18980 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
18982 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18983 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
18984 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
18985 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
18986 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
18988 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
18989 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
18990 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
18991 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18992 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
18993 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18995 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18996 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
18997 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
18998 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
18999 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19000 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
19001 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19002 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
19003 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
19005 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19006 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
19007 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
19008 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
19009 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19010 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
19011 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
19012 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
19013 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
19014 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
19015 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
19016 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
19018 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
19019 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
19020 this is CID 718634.
19021 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19022 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19023 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19024 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19026 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
19027 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
19029 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
19030 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
19031 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
19032 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
19033 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
19034 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
19035 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
19036 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19037 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
19038 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
19039 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
19040 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19041 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
19042 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
19043 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19044 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
19045 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
19046 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
19048 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
19049 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
19050 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
19051 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
19052 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19053 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
19054 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
19055 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
19056 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
19057 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19058 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
19059 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
19060 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
19063 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
19064 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
19065 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
19066 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
19067 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
19069 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
19070 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
19071 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
19072 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
19073 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
19074 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19075 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
19076 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
19077 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
19080 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19081 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
19082 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19083 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19085 o Documentation fixes:
19086 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
19087 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19088 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
19089 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
19090 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
19091 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
19092 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
19094 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
19095 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
19096 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
19097 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
19098 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
19099 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
19100 message is logged at notice, not at info.
19101 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19102 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19103 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19104 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19105 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19106 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19108 o Removed features:
19109 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
19110 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
19111 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
19113 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
19114 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
19115 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
19116 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
19117 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
19118 compatibility code.
19121 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
19122 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
19124 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
19125 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
19127 o Code simplification:
19128 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
19129 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
19130 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
19131 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
19133 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
19134 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
19136 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
19137 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
19138 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
19139 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
19140 present the same extensions.)
19141 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
19143 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
19144 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
19145 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
19146 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
19148 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
19149 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
19150 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
19151 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
19154 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
19156 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
19157 and the different handshakes it supports.
19158 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
19159 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
19160 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
19161 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
19163 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
19164 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
19165 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
19166 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
19167 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
19168 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
19169 testable, and a little less fragile too.
19170 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
19171 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
19172 Implements ticket 5529.
19173 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
19174 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
19175 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
19178 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
19179 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
19180 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
19181 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
19182 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
19183 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19184 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
19185 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
19186 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
19187 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
19188 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
19189 any encoding is overkill.
19190 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
19191 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19192 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
19193 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
19194 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
19195 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
19196 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
19197 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
19198 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
19201 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
19202 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
19203 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
19204 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
19205 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
19206 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
19207 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
19208 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
19210 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
19211 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
19212 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
19213 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
19214 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
19215 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
19216 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
19217 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
19218 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
19219 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
19220 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
19222 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
19223 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
19224 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
19225 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
19226 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
19227 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
19228 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
19229 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
19230 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
19231 describes microdescriptors.
19233 o Major features (build hardening):
19234 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
19236 o Major features (relay scaling):
19237 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
19238 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
19239 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
19240 much faster than other AES implementations.
19241 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
19242 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
19243 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
19244 Resolves ticket 4526.
19245 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
19246 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
19248 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
19249 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
19250 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
19251 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
19253 o Major features (blocking resistance):
19254 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
19256 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
19257 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
19258 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
19259 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
19260 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
19261 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
19262 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
19263 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
19264 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
19265 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
19266 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
19267 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
19268 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
19269 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
19270 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
19271 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
19272 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
19273 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
19274 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
19276 o Major features (pluggable transports):
19277 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
19278 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
19279 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
19280 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
19282 o Major features (DoS resistance):
19283 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
19284 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
19285 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
19286 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
19287 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
19288 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
19289 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
19290 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
19291 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
19292 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
19293 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
19295 o Major features (hidden services):
19296 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
19297 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
19298 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
19300 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
19301 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
19302 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
19303 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
19304 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
19305 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
19307 o Major features (IPv6):
19308 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
19309 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
19310 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
19311 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
19312 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
19314 o Major features (directory authorities):
19315 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
19316 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
19317 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
19318 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
19319 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
19320 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
19321 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
19322 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
19323 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
19324 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
19326 o Major features (performance):
19327 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
19328 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
19329 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
19330 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
19331 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
19332 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
19333 side of Proposal 174.
19334 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
19335 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
19336 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
19337 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
19338 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
19339 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
19340 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
19341 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
19342 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
19343 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
19344 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
19345 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
19347 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
19348 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
19349 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
19350 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
19351 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
19354 o Major features (relays):
19355 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
19356 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
19357 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
19358 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
19359 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
19360 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
19361 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
19363 o Major features (stream isolation):
19364 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
19365 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
19366 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
19367 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
19368 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
19369 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
19370 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
19371 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
19372 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
19373 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
19374 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
19375 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
19376 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
19377 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
19379 o Major features (bufferevents):
19380 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
19381 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
19382 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
19383 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
19384 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
19385 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
19386 zero-copy transports where available.
19387 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
19388 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
19389 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
19390 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
19391 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
19392 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
19394 o Major features (path selection):
19395 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
19396 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
19397 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
19398 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
19401 o Major features (port forwarding):
19402 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
19403 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
19404 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
19405 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
19406 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
19407 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
19409 o Major features (logging):
19410 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
19411 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
19412 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
19413 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
19414 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
19415 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
19416 Implements enhancement 1668.
19418 o Major features (other):
19419 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
19420 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
19421 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
19422 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
19423 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
19424 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
19425 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
19426 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
19427 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
19428 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
19429 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
19430 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
19431 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
19432 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
19433 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
19434 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
19435 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
19436 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
19437 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
19438 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
19440 o New directory authorities:
19441 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
19442 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
19444 o Security/privacy fixes:
19445 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
19446 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
19447 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19448 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
19449 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
19450 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
19451 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19452 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
19453 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
19454 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
19455 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
19456 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
19457 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
19458 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
19459 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
19460 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
19461 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
19462 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
19463 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
19464 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
19465 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
19466 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
19467 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
19468 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
19469 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
19470 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
19471 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
19472 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
19473 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
19474 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
19475 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
19477 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
19478 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
19479 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
19480 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
19481 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
19482 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
19483 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
19484 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19485 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
19486 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
19487 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
19488 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
19489 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
19490 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
19493 o Major bugfixes (clients):
19494 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
19495 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
19496 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
19497 which introduced predicted ports.
19498 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
19499 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
19500 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
19501 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
19502 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
19503 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
19504 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19505 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
19506 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
19508 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
19509 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
19510 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
19511 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
19512 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
19513 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
19515 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
19516 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
19517 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
19518 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
19519 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19520 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
19521 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
19522 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
19523 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
19524 documents entirely.
19526 o Major bugfixes (relays):
19527 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
19528 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
19529 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
19530 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
19531 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
19532 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
19533 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
19534 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
19535 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
19536 immensely in tracking this bug down.
19537 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
19538 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
19539 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
19540 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
19541 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
19542 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
19543 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19545 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
19546 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
19547 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
19548 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
19549 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
19550 cells were introduced.
19551 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
19552 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
19553 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
19554 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
19556 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19557 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
19558 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
19559 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
19560 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
19561 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
19562 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
19563 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
19564 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
19565 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
19566 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
19567 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
19568 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
19569 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
19570 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
19571 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
19572 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
19573 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
19574 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
19575 Fixes part of bug 3825.
19577 o Changes to default torrc file:
19578 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
19579 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
19581 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
19582 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
19583 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
19585 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
19586 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
19587 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
19589 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19590 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
19591 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
19592 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
19593 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
19594 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
19595 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
19596 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
19597 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
19598 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
19599 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
19600 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
19601 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
19602 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
19603 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
19604 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
19607 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
19608 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
19609 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
19610 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
19611 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
19612 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
19613 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
19614 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
19615 sure. Closes bug 5139.
19616 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
19617 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
19618 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
19619 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
19620 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
19622 o Minor features (IPv6):
19623 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
19624 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
19625 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
19626 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
19627 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
19628 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
19630 o Minor features (hidden services):
19631 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
19632 Required by fix for bug 3460.
19633 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
19634 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
19635 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
19636 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
19637 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
19638 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
19639 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
19640 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
19641 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
19643 o Minor features (relays):
19644 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
19645 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
19646 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
19647 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
19648 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
19649 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
19650 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
19651 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
19652 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
19653 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
19654 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
19657 o Minor features (new config options):
19658 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
19659 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
19660 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
19661 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
19662 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
19663 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
19664 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
19665 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
19666 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
19667 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
19668 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
19669 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
19671 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
19672 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
19673 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
19674 Implements issue 933.
19675 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
19676 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
19677 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
19678 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
19679 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
19680 implements ticket 3439.
19681 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
19682 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
19683 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
19684 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
19685 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
19686 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
19687 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
19688 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
19690 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
19691 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
19692 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
19693 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
19694 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
19695 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
19696 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
19697 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
19698 appending to the list.
19699 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
19700 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
19701 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
19702 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
19705 o Minor features (controller, new events):
19706 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
19707 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
19708 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
19709 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
19710 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
19711 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
19713 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
19714 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
19715 circuit-status' control-port command.
19716 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
19717 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
19718 user. Implements ticket 1692.
19719 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
19720 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
19721 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
19723 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
19724 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
19725 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
19726 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
19727 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
19728 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
19729 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
19730 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
19731 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
19733 o Minor features (controller, other):
19734 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
19735 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
19736 part of ticket 3457.
19737 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
19738 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
19739 file. Resolves bug 1101.
19740 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
19741 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
19743 o Minor features (log messages):
19744 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
19745 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
19746 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
19747 please let us know about it.
19748 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
19749 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
19750 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
19751 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
19752 Resolves ticket 2474.
19753 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
19754 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
19756 o Minor features (other):
19757 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
19758 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
19759 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
19760 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
19762 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
19763 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
19764 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
19765 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
19766 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
19767 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
19768 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
19770 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
19771 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
19772 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
19773 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
19774 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19776 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
19777 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
19778 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
19779 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
19780 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
19781 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
19782 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19783 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
19784 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19785 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
19786 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
19787 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
19788 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
19789 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
19790 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
19791 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
19794 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
19795 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
19796 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
19797 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
19798 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
19799 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
19800 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
19801 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
19802 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
19804 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
19805 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
19806 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
19807 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
19808 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
19809 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
19810 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19811 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
19812 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
19813 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19815 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19816 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
19817 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19818 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
19819 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
19820 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
19821 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19822 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
19823 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
19825 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
19826 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
19827 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
19828 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
19829 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
19830 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
19831 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
19832 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
19833 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
19835 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19836 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
19837 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
19838 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
19839 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
19840 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
19841 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
19843 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
19844 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
19845 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
19846 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
19848 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19849 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
19850 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
19851 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19852 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
19853 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
19854 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
19855 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
19856 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
19857 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
19858 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
19859 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
19862 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
19863 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
19864 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19865 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
19866 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
19867 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
19869 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
19870 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
19871 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19872 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19873 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
19874 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19875 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19876 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19877 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19878 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19879 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19880 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
19881 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
19882 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
19883 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
19885 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
19886 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
19887 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
19888 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
19889 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
19890 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
19892 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
19893 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
19894 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
19895 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
19896 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
19897 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
19898 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
19899 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
19900 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
19901 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
19902 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
19903 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
19904 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
19905 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
19906 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19908 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
19909 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
19910 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
19911 be disabled using the new
19912 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
19913 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19914 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19915 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19916 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19917 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19918 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19920 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
19921 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19922 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19923 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19924 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
19925 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
19926 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
19928 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
19929 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
19930 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
19931 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
19932 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19933 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
19934 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
19935 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
19937 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
19938 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
19939 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
19940 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19941 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
19942 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
19943 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19944 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19946 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19947 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
19948 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
19949 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
19950 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
19951 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
19952 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
19953 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
19955 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
19956 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
19957 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
19958 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
19960 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
19961 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
19962 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
19964 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
19965 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
19967 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
19968 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
19969 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
19970 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
19971 case for flushing marked connections.
19972 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
19973 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
19974 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
19975 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
19976 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
19977 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19978 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
19979 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
19980 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
19981 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19983 o Minor bugfixes (other):
19984 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
19985 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
19986 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
19987 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
19988 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
19989 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
19990 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
19991 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
19992 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
19993 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
19995 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
19996 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19997 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
19998 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
19999 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20001 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
20002 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
20003 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
20004 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
20005 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20006 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
20007 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
20008 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
20009 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
20010 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
20011 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
20012 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
20013 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
20014 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
20015 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
20016 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
20018 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
20019 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
20020 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
20021 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20022 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
20023 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
20024 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20025 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
20026 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20027 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
20028 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
20029 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
20030 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
20031 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
20032 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
20033 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
20034 Implements ticket 3264.
20035 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
20037 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
20038 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
20039 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
20040 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
20041 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
20042 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
20044 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
20045 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
20046 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20047 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
20048 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
20049 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20050 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
20051 them from the other auths.
20052 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
20053 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
20054 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
20055 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20056 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
20057 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
20058 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
20059 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
20063 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
20064 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
20065 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
20067 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
20068 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
20069 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
20070 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
20071 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
20072 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
20073 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
20074 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
20076 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
20077 ./src/test/bench binary.
20078 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
20079 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
20080 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
20081 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
20084 o Build improvements:
20085 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
20086 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
20087 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
20088 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
20089 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
20090 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
20091 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
20092 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20093 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
20094 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
20095 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
20096 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
20097 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
20098 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
20099 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
20100 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
20101 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
20102 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
20103 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
20104 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
20105 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
20107 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
20109 o Build requirements:
20110 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
20111 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
20112 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
20113 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
20114 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
20115 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
20116 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
20117 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
20118 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
20119 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
20120 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
20121 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
20122 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
20124 o Build fixes (compile/link):
20125 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
20126 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
20128 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
20129 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
20130 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
20131 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
20132 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
20133 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
20134 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20135 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
20136 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20138 o Build fixes (other):
20139 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
20140 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
20142 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
20143 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
20144 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
20145 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20146 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
20147 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
20148 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
20149 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
20151 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
20152 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
20155 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
20156 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
20157 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
20158 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
20159 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
20160 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
20161 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
20162 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
20164 o Code refactoring (safety):
20165 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
20166 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
20167 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
20168 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
20169 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
20170 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
20171 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
20172 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
20173 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
20174 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
20175 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
20176 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
20178 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
20179 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
20180 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
20181 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
20182 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
20183 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
20184 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
20185 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
20186 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
20187 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
20188 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
20189 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
20190 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
20191 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
20192 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
20193 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
20194 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
20195 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
20197 o Code refactoring (separate):
20198 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
20199 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
20200 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
20202 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
20203 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
20206 o Code refactoring (name changes):
20207 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
20208 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
20209 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
20210 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
20211 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
20212 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
20213 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
20215 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
20216 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
20217 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
20218 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
20219 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
20220 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
20221 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
20222 invalid value, rather than just -1.
20223 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
20224 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
20225 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
20227 o Code refactoring (other):
20228 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
20229 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
20231 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
20232 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
20233 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
20234 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
20235 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
20236 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
20237 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
20238 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
20239 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
20240 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
20241 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
20242 our library structure used to force them to link it.
20244 o Removed features and files:
20245 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
20246 it would be a bad idea to start.
20247 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
20249 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
20250 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
20251 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
20252 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
20253 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
20254 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
20255 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
20256 are no longer in use as relays.
20257 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
20258 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
20259 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
20260 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
20261 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
20262 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
20266 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
20267 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
20268 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
20270 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
20271 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
20273 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
20274 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
20275 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
20277 o Documentation fixes:
20278 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
20279 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
20280 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
20281 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
20282 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
20283 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
20284 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
20285 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
20288 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
20289 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
20293 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
20294 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
20295 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20296 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
20297 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
20298 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
20299 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
20303 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
20304 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
20305 attack that could in theory leak path information.
20308 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
20309 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
20310 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20311 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
20312 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
20313 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
20314 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
20315 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
20316 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
20317 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
20318 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
20319 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
20320 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
20321 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
20324 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
20325 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
20326 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
20330 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
20331 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
20332 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
20333 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
20334 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
20335 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
20336 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20337 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
20338 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
20339 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
20340 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20343 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
20344 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
20347 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
20348 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
20351 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
20352 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
20353 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
20354 and fixes several crash bugs.
20356 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
20357 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
20358 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
20359 those packages and upgrade anyway.
20361 o Directory authority changes:
20362 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
20363 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
20367 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
20368 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
20369 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
20370 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
20371 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
20372 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
20373 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
20374 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
20375 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
20376 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
20377 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
20378 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
20379 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
20380 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
20381 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
20382 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
20383 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
20384 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
20385 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
20386 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
20387 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
20388 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
20389 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
20390 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
20391 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
20392 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
20393 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
20396 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
20397 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20398 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
20399 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
20401 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
20402 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
20404 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
20405 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
20406 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
20407 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
20408 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
20409 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
20410 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
20411 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
20414 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
20415 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
20416 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
20417 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
20418 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
20419 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
20420 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
20421 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
20422 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
20423 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
20424 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
20425 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
20426 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
20427 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
20428 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
20429 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
20430 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
20431 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
20432 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
20433 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
20434 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
20435 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
20436 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
20437 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
20438 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
20439 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
20440 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
20441 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
20442 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
20443 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
20444 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
20445 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
20446 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20447 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
20448 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20449 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
20450 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
20451 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
20452 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
20453 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20454 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
20455 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20456 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
20457 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
20458 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
20459 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20461 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20462 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
20463 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
20464 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
20465 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
20466 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
20467 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
20468 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
20469 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
20470 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
20471 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20472 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
20473 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20474 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
20475 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
20478 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
20479 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
20480 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
20481 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
20483 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20486 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
20487 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
20488 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
20489 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
20490 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
20491 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
20492 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
20495 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
20496 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
20497 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20499 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20500 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20501 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20502 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20503 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20504 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20505 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20506 (which Tor does not do by default).
20508 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20509 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20510 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20511 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20512 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20514 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
20515 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
20516 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
20519 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
20520 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
20521 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
20522 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
20523 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20525 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
20526 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
20529 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20530 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20531 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20532 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20533 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20534 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20535 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20536 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20538 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20539 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20540 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20541 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20542 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20543 close based on processing a cell on it.
20544 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20545 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20546 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20547 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20548 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20549 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20550 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20551 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
20552 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
20553 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
20554 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20555 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20556 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20557 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20558 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
20561 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20562 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20563 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20564 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20565 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20566 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20567 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20569 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20570 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20571 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20572 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20573 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20574 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20575 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20576 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20577 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20578 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20579 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20580 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20581 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20582 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20583 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
20584 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
20585 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
20586 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
20587 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20588 Reported by "troll_un".
20589 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20590 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20591 Reported by "troll_un".
20592 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20593 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20594 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20595 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20598 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20599 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20600 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20601 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20602 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20603 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20604 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20605 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20606 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20607 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20608 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20610 o Packaging changes:
20611 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20612 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20615 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
20616 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20617 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20618 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20619 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20621 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
20622 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
20624 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20625 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20626 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20627 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20628 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20629 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20630 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20631 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20632 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20635 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20638 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
20639 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
20640 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
20642 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
20643 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
20644 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
20645 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
20646 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
20647 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
20648 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
20649 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
20650 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
20651 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
20652 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
20653 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
20654 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
20656 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
20657 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
20658 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
20659 currently connected to them.
20661 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
20662 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
20663 remain; see for example proposal 188.
20665 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20666 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20667 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20668 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20669 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20670 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20671 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20672 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20673 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20674 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20675 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20676 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20677 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20678 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20679 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20680 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20681 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20682 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20685 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
20686 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
20687 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
20688 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
20689 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
20690 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
20691 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
20692 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
20693 when bridges were introduced.
20694 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20695 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20696 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20697 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20698 Found by "frosty_un".
20701 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20702 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20704 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20705 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20706 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20707 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20708 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20709 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20710 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20713 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
20714 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
20715 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
20716 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20717 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20718 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20719 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20720 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20721 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20722 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20723 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20724 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20725 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20726 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20727 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20728 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20729 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20730 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20732 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
20733 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20734 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20735 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20736 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20737 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20738 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20739 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20740 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
20741 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
20742 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
20743 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20746 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20747 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20748 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
20749 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20752 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
20753 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20754 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20755 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20756 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20758 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20759 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
20760 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
20761 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
20762 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
20763 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
20764 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
20765 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
20766 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
20767 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20769 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20770 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20771 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20772 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20773 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20774 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20775 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20776 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20777 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20778 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20779 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20780 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20781 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20782 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20783 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20784 Found by "frosty_un".
20785 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
20786 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
20787 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
20788 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
20789 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
20790 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
20791 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
20792 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
20793 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20794 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
20795 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
20796 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
20797 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20798 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
20799 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
20800 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
20801 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
20802 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
20803 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
20805 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20806 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
20807 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
20808 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
20809 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
20810 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
20811 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
20812 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
20814 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
20815 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
20816 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
20817 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
20818 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
20819 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
20820 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
20821 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
20822 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
20823 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
20824 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
20825 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
20827 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
20828 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20829 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
20830 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20831 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
20832 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20833 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
20834 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
20835 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
20837 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
20839 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
20840 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
20841 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
20842 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20843 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
20844 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
20845 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
20846 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20848 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
20849 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
20850 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
20851 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
20852 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
20854 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20855 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20856 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20857 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
20858 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20861 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
20862 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
20863 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
20864 reachable from Iran again.
20867 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
20868 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
20869 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20871 o Minor features (security):
20872 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
20873 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
20874 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
20875 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
20876 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
20877 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
20878 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
20879 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
20880 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
20881 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
20884 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
20885 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
20886 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
20887 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
20888 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
20889 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
20890 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
20891 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
20892 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20894 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
20895 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
20896 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
20897 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
20898 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
20899 raised by bug 3898.
20900 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
20901 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
20902 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
20903 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
20904 fixes part of bug 2442.
20905 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
20906 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
20907 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
20909 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
20910 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
20911 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
20912 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
20913 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20916 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
20917 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20918 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
20919 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
20920 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
20921 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
20924 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
20925 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
20926 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
20927 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
20928 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
20929 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
20930 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
20931 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
20932 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
20933 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
20935 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
20936 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
20937 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
20938 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
20939 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
20940 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
20941 many many other features and bugfixes.
20943 o Major features (client performance):
20944 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
20945 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
20946 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
20947 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
20948 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
20949 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
20951 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
20952 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
20953 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
20954 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
20955 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
20956 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
20957 the first implementation of this feature.
20959 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
20960 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
20961 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
20962 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
20963 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
20964 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
20965 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
20966 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
20967 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
20968 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
20969 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
20970 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
20971 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
20972 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
20973 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
20974 file. Implements ticket 1296.
20976 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
20977 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
20978 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
20979 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
20980 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
20981 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
20982 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
20983 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
20984 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
20985 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
20986 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
20987 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
20988 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
20989 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
20990 they first get the Guard flag.
20991 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
20992 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
20993 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
20994 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
20995 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
20996 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
20997 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
20998 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
21000 o Major features (relays control their load better):
21001 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
21002 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
21003 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
21004 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
21005 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
21006 based on a variant of proposal 163.
21007 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
21008 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
21009 but never per-conn write limits.
21010 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
21011 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
21012 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
21013 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
21015 o Major features (controllers):
21016 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
21017 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
21018 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
21019 contributions to the network.
21020 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
21021 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
21022 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
21024 o Major features (directory authorities):
21025 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
21026 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
21027 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
21029 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
21030 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
21031 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
21032 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
21033 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
21034 download consensus + microdescriptors".
21035 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
21036 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
21037 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
21038 hash algorithm in the future.
21039 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
21040 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
21041 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
21043 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
21044 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
21045 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
21046 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
21047 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
21048 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
21049 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
21050 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
21051 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
21052 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
21053 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
21054 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
21055 connections to directory servers.
21056 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
21057 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
21058 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
21059 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
21060 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
21061 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
21062 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
21063 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
21064 information, or fetch directory information.
21065 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
21066 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
21067 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
21068 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
21069 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
21071 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
21072 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
21073 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
21074 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
21075 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
21076 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
21077 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
21078 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
21079 the network changes.
21080 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
21081 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
21083 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
21084 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
21085 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
21086 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
21087 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
21088 unless you really want your Tor to break.
21089 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
21090 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
21091 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
21092 - When StrictNodes is 1:
21093 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
21094 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
21095 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
21096 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
21097 reachability self-tests.
21098 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
21099 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
21100 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
21101 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
21102 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
21104 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
21105 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21106 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
21108 o Major features (misc):
21109 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
21110 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
21111 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
21112 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
21113 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
21114 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
21115 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
21116 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
21117 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
21118 part of ticket 3076.
21119 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
21120 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
21121 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
21123 o Code security improvements:
21124 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21125 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21126 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21127 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21128 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21129 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21130 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
21131 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
21132 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
21133 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
21134 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
21135 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
21136 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
21137 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
21138 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
21139 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
21140 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
21141 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
21142 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
21143 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
21144 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
21145 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
21146 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
21147 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
21148 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
21149 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
21150 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
21151 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
21153 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
21154 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
21155 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
21156 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
21157 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
21158 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
21159 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
21160 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21161 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21162 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21163 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21164 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21165 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21167 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
21168 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
21169 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
21171 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
21172 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
21174 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21175 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21176 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21177 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21178 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
21179 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21180 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
21181 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
21182 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
21183 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
21184 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
21185 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
21186 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
21187 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
21188 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
21189 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21190 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
21192 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
21193 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
21194 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
21196 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
21197 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
21198 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
21199 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
21200 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
21201 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
21202 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
21203 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
21204 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
21205 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
21206 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
21207 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
21208 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
21209 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
21210 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
21211 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21212 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
21213 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21214 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21216 o Privacy fixes (clients):
21217 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21218 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21219 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21220 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21221 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21222 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21223 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
21224 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
21225 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
21227 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
21228 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
21229 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
21230 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
21231 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
21232 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
21233 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
21234 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
21235 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
21236 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
21238 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
21239 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21240 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21241 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21242 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
21243 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
21244 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21245 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21246 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21247 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21248 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21249 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21250 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21252 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
21253 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
21254 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
21255 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
21256 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
21257 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
21258 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
21259 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
21260 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
21261 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21263 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
21264 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
21265 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
21266 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
21267 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
21268 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
21269 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
21271 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
21272 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
21273 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
21274 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
21275 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
21276 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
21277 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
21278 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
21279 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
21280 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
21281 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
21282 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
21283 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
21284 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
21285 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
21287 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21288 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
21289 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
21290 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
21291 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
21292 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
21293 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
21295 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
21296 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
21297 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
21298 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
21299 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
21300 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
21301 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
21302 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
21304 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
21305 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
21306 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
21307 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
21308 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
21309 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
21310 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
21311 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
21312 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
21313 the longest-lived bug prize.
21314 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
21315 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
21316 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
21317 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
21318 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
21319 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
21320 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
21321 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
21322 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
21323 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
21325 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
21326 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
21327 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
21328 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
21329 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
21330 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
21333 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21334 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
21335 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
21336 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
21337 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
21338 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
21339 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
21340 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
21341 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
21342 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
21343 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
21344 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21345 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
21346 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
21347 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
21348 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
21349 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
21350 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
21351 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
21352 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
21353 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
21354 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
21355 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
21356 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
21357 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
21358 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
21360 o Major bugfixes (misc):
21361 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
21362 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
21363 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21364 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
21365 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
21366 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21367 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21368 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21370 o Minor features (relays):
21371 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
21372 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
21373 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
21374 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
21375 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
21376 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
21377 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
21378 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
21380 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
21381 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
21382 Resolves ticket 3252.
21383 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
21384 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
21386 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
21387 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
21388 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
21389 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
21390 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
21392 o Minor features (network statistics):
21393 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
21394 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
21395 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
21396 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
21397 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
21398 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
21399 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
21400 measure download times.
21401 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21402 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
21404 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
21405 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
21406 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21407 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
21409 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
21410 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
21411 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
21413 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
21414 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
21415 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
21416 Implements ticket 2432.
21417 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
21418 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
21419 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
21420 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
21421 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
21422 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
21423 Implements enhancement 1790.
21424 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
21425 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
21427 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
21428 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
21429 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
21430 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
21431 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
21432 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
21433 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
21435 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21437 o Minor features (clients):
21438 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
21439 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
21440 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
21441 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
21443 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
21444 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
21445 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
21446 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
21447 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
21448 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
21449 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
21450 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
21452 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
21453 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
21454 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
21455 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
21456 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
21457 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
21458 SSL handshake issues.
21460 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21461 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
21462 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
21463 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
21464 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
21465 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
21466 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
21467 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
21468 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
21469 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
21470 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
21471 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
21472 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
21473 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
21474 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
21475 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
21476 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
21477 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
21478 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
21479 hour of their uptime.
21480 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
21481 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
21482 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
21483 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
21485 o Minor features (hidden services):
21486 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
21487 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
21488 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
21489 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
21490 Required by fix for bug 3000.
21491 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
21492 by fix for bug 3000.
21493 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
21494 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
21495 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
21496 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
21497 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21499 o Minor features (controller interface):
21500 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
21501 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
21502 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
21503 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
21504 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
21505 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
21506 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
21507 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
21508 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
21509 over our stored history.
21510 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
21511 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
21512 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
21514 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
21515 to the circuit build timeout.
21516 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
21517 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
21518 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
21520 o Minor features (controller protocol):
21521 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
21522 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
21523 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
21525 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
21526 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
21527 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
21528 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
21529 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
21530 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
21531 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
21532 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
21533 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
21534 arguments we do not recognize.
21536 o Minor features (more useful logging):
21537 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
21538 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
21539 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
21540 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
21541 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
21542 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
21543 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
21544 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
21545 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
21546 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
21547 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
21548 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
21549 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
21550 got suppressed since the last warning.
21551 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
21552 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
21553 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
21554 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
21555 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
21556 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
21557 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
21559 o Minor features (log domains):
21560 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
21561 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
21562 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
21564 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
21565 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
21567 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
21568 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
21569 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
21571 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
21572 during the TLS handshake.
21574 o Minor features (build process):
21575 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
21576 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
21577 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
21579 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
21580 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
21581 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
21583 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
21584 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
21585 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
21586 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
21587 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
21588 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
21590 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
21591 source files Tor was built with.
21592 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
21593 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
21594 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
21595 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
21596 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
21597 speeds up the build considerably.
21599 o Minor features (options / torrc):
21600 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
21601 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
21602 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
21603 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
21604 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
21605 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
21606 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
21607 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
21608 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
21609 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
21610 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
21611 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
21612 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
21613 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
21614 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
21615 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
21616 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
21617 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
21618 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
21619 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
21620 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
21621 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
21622 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
21623 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
21624 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
21625 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
21626 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
21628 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
21629 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
21630 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
21633 o Minor features (unit tests):
21634 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
21635 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
21636 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
21637 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
21638 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
21639 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
21641 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
21642 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
21645 o Minor features (misc):
21646 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
21647 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
21648 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
21649 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
21651 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
21652 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
21653 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
21654 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
21655 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
21657 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
21658 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
21659 open() without checking it.
21660 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
21661 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
21662 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
21663 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21665 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21666 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
21667 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
21668 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
21669 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
21670 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
21671 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
21672 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
21673 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
21674 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
21675 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
21676 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
21677 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
21678 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
21679 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
21680 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
21681 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
21682 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
21683 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
21684 based on the time during which we were active and not in
21685 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
21686 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
21687 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
21688 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
21689 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21690 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
21691 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
21692 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
21694 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
21695 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
21696 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
21697 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
21699 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21700 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
21701 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
21702 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
21703 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
21705 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
21706 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
21707 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21708 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
21709 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
21710 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
21711 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
21712 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
21713 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
21714 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
21715 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
21716 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
21717 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
21719 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21720 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
21721 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
21722 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
21723 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
21724 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
21725 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
21726 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
21727 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
21728 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
21729 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
21730 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21731 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
21732 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
21733 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
21734 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
21735 two-hop circuits are actually created.
21736 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
21737 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21738 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
21739 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
21741 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21742 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
21743 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
21744 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
21745 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
21746 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
21747 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
21748 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
21749 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
21751 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
21752 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
21753 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
21754 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
21755 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
21756 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
21757 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
21758 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
21759 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
21760 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
21761 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
21762 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
21763 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
21766 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21767 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
21768 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
21769 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
21770 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21771 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
21772 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
21773 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
21774 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
21775 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
21776 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
21778 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21779 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21781 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
21782 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
21783 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
21784 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
21785 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21786 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
21787 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
21788 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
21790 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
21791 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21792 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21793 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21794 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
21795 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
21796 discovered by katmagic.
21797 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
21798 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
21800 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
21801 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21802 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21803 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21804 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21805 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21806 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21807 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21808 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21810 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
21811 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
21813 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
21814 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
21816 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
21817 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
21819 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
21820 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
21821 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
21822 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21823 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
21824 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
21825 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21826 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
21827 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
21828 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
21829 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
21830 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
21831 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
21832 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
21833 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
21835 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
21836 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
21837 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
21838 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
21839 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
21840 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
21841 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
21842 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
21843 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
21845 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
21846 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21847 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21849 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
21850 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
21851 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
21852 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
21854 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
21855 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21856 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21857 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21858 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21859 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
21860 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
21862 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
21863 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
21864 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
21865 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21866 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
21867 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
21869 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
21870 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
21871 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
21872 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
21873 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
21874 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
21875 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
21876 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21877 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
21879 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
21880 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
21881 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21882 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
21883 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21884 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21885 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21886 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21887 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
21888 control-spec.txt said they were.
21890 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21891 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21892 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21894 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
21895 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21896 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
21897 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
21898 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
21900 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
21901 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
21903 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
21904 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
21905 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
21906 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
21907 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
21908 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
21909 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
21911 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
21912 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21913 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21914 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21915 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
21916 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
21917 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
21918 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
21921 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21922 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21923 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21924 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21925 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21926 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21927 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21928 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21929 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21930 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21931 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21932 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21933 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21934 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21935 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
21937 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
21938 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
21939 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
21940 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
21941 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
21942 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
21943 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21945 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
21946 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
21949 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21950 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21951 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21952 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21953 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21954 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21955 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
21956 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
21957 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
21958 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
21959 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
21960 fixes part of bug 3407.
21961 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21962 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
21963 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
21964 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
21965 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
21966 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
21967 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
21968 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
21969 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
21970 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
21972 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
21973 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
21974 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
21975 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
21976 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
21977 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
21978 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
21979 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21980 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
21981 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
21982 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
21983 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21984 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
21985 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
21986 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
21987 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
21988 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
21990 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
21991 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
21992 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
21993 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
21994 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
21995 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
21996 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21997 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
21998 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
21999 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
22000 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
22001 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
22003 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
22004 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
22005 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
22006 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
22007 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
22009 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
22010 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
22011 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
22012 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
22014 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
22015 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
22016 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
22017 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
22018 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
22019 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
22020 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
22021 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
22022 structures and defines in or.h for now.
22023 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
22025 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
22026 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22027 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22028 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22029 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
22030 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
22031 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
22032 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
22034 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
22035 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
22036 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
22038 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22039 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
22040 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
22041 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
22042 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
22043 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
22044 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
22045 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
22046 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
22047 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
22049 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
22051 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
22052 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
22053 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
22054 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
22055 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
22056 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
22057 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
22058 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
22059 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
22060 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
22062 o Documentation changes:
22063 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
22064 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
22066 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
22067 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
22068 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
22069 what should go in a patch.
22070 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
22072 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
22073 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
22074 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
22075 projects directory in svn.
22077 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
22078 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
22079 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
22080 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
22081 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
22082 hidden service usage.
22083 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
22084 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
22085 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
22086 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
22087 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
22090 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
22091 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
22092 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
22093 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
22094 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
22097 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
22098 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
22099 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
22100 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
22101 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
22102 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
22103 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
22104 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
22105 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
22106 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
22107 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
22108 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
22109 via application-level web tricks.
22110 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
22111 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
22112 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
22113 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
22114 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
22115 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
22116 send a body too). Since only server versions before
22117 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
22118 keep the workaround in place.
22119 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
22120 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
22121 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
22122 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
22123 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
22124 want to do it differently.
22125 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
22126 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
22127 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
22130 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
22131 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
22132 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
22133 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
22134 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
22135 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
22138 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22139 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
22140 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
22141 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
22142 the rest of bug 1074.
22143 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
22144 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22145 Found by "piebeer".
22146 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
22147 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
22148 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
22149 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
22150 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
22151 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
22152 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22155 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
22157 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22160 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
22161 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
22162 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
22163 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
22164 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
22165 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
22166 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
22167 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
22168 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
22169 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
22170 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22172 o Packaging changes:
22173 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
22174 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
22175 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
22176 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
22177 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
22178 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22181 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
22182 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
22183 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
22184 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
22185 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22187 o Major bugfixes (security):
22188 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22189 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22190 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22192 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22193 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22194 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22195 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22196 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22197 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22198 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22199 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22201 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22202 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22203 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22204 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22205 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22206 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22207 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22208 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22209 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22210 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22211 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22212 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22213 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22214 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22217 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22218 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22219 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22220 bug reported by doorss.
22221 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22222 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22223 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22224 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22225 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22227 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22228 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22229 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22230 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
22231 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22234 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22235 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22238 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22239 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22240 Automake 1.7 or later.
22241 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22242 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22243 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22244 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22247 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
22248 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22249 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
22250 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
22254 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22255 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22256 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22257 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22259 o Directory authority changes:
22260 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22263 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22266 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
22267 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22268 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
22269 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
22270 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
22273 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22274 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22275 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22276 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22277 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22278 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22279 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22280 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22281 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22282 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22283 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22284 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22285 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22286 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22287 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22288 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22289 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22290 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22291 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22292 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22293 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22294 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22295 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22298 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
22299 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
22300 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
22301 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
22303 o New directory authorities:
22304 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22308 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
22309 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
22310 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
22312 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22313 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22314 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22315 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22316 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22317 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22319 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
22320 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
22321 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22324 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
22325 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
22326 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
22327 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
22328 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
22329 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
22330 Patch from mingw-san.
22333 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
22334 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
22335 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
22336 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
22337 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
22338 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
22341 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
22342 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
22343 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
22344 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
22345 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
22347 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
22348 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
22351 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
22352 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
22353 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
22354 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
22355 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
22356 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
22357 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
22358 their directory fetches over TLS).
22359 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
22360 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
22361 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
22362 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
22363 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
22364 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
22365 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
22366 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
22369 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
22370 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
22374 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
22375 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22376 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
22377 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
22378 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
22379 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
22380 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22383 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
22384 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
22385 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
22386 several minor potential security bugs.
22389 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
22390 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
22391 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
22392 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
22393 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
22394 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
22395 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
22398 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
22399 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
22401 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
22402 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
22403 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
22404 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
22407 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
22408 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
22412 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
22413 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
22414 customized patches to run/build.
22417 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
22418 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
22419 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
22422 o Major bugfixes (performance):
22423 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
22424 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
22425 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
22426 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
22427 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
22428 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
22429 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
22432 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
22433 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
22434 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
22435 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
22436 libraries in a security patch.
22437 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
22438 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
22439 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
22440 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
22444 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
22445 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
22448 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
22449 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
22450 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
22451 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
22452 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
22455 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
22456 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
22457 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
22458 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
22459 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
22461 o Directory authority changes:
22462 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
22466 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
22467 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
22468 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22471 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
22472 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
22473 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
22474 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
22475 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
22478 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
22479 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
22480 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
22481 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
22482 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
22483 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
22484 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
22487 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
22488 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
22489 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22490 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
22491 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
22492 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
22494 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
22495 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
22498 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
22499 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
22500 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
22501 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
22503 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
22504 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
22506 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
22507 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
22508 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
22509 in the Vidalia Settings window.
22512 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
22513 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
22514 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
22515 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
22516 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
22518 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
22519 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
22521 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
22522 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
22523 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
22526 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
22527 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
22528 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
22530 o New directory authorities:
22531 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
22533 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
22536 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
22537 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
22539 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
22540 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
22541 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22542 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
22543 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
22544 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
22545 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22546 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22547 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
22548 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
22549 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
22550 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
22551 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
22552 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
22553 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
22554 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
22555 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
22557 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
22558 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
22559 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
22561 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
22562 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
22566 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
22567 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
22568 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
22569 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
22570 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
22573 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
22574 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
22578 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
22579 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
22580 part of patch provided by "optimist".
22583 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
22584 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
22585 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
22586 and confuse fewer users.
22589 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
22590 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
22591 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
22592 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
22593 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
22594 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
22595 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
22598 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
22599 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
22600 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
22601 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
22602 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
22603 other features and bug fixes.
22605 o Major features (clients):
22606 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
22607 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
22608 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
22609 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
22611 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
22612 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
22613 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
22614 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
22615 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
22616 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
22617 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
22618 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
22619 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
22620 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
22622 o Major features (relays):
22623 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
22624 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
22625 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
22626 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
22627 data. Found by Jacob.
22628 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
22629 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
22630 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
22631 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
22633 o Major features (hidden services):
22634 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
22635 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
22636 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
22637 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
22638 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
22639 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
22640 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
22641 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
22642 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
22643 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
22644 lookups more reliable.
22646 o Major features (path selection):
22647 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
22648 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
22649 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
22650 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
22651 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
22653 o Major features (misc):
22654 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
22655 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
22657 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
22658 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
22659 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
22660 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
22661 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
22662 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
22664 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
22665 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
22666 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
22667 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
22669 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
22672 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
22673 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
22674 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
22675 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
22676 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
22677 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
22678 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
22679 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
22680 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
22681 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
22682 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
22683 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
22684 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
22685 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
22686 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
22687 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
22688 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
22689 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
22690 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
22691 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
22692 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22693 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
22694 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
22695 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
22696 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
22697 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
22698 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
22699 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
22700 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
22701 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
22702 Implements proposal 148.
22704 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22705 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
22706 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
22707 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
22708 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
22709 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
22711 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
22712 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
22713 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
22714 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
22715 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
22716 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22717 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
22718 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
22719 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
22721 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
22722 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
22723 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
22724 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
22726 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
22727 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
22728 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
22729 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
22730 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
22731 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
22732 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
22733 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
22734 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22736 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22737 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
22738 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
22739 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
22740 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
22741 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
22742 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
22743 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
22744 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
22745 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
22746 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
22747 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
22748 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
22749 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
22750 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
22751 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
22754 o Major bugfixes (relays):
22755 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
22756 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
22757 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
22758 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
22759 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
22760 patch by Sebastian.
22761 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
22762 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
22763 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
22764 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
22765 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
22766 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
22767 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
22768 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
22769 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
22770 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
22773 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22774 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
22775 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
22776 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
22777 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
22778 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
22780 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22781 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
22782 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
22783 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
22784 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
22785 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
22786 on a typical directory cache.
22787 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
22788 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
22789 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
22790 and may reduce fragmentation.
22792 o New/changed config options:
22793 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
22794 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
22795 Suggested by Lucky Green.
22796 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
22797 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
22798 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
22799 locked down these days.
22800 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
22801 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
22802 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
22803 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
22804 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
22805 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
22806 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
22807 output to messages of warning and error severity.
22808 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
22809 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
22810 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
22811 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
22812 directory requests we should expect to see.
22813 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
22814 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22815 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
22816 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
22817 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
22818 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
22819 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
22821 o Minor features (relays):
22822 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
22823 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
22824 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
22825 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
22826 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
22828 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
22829 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
22830 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
22831 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
22832 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
22833 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
22834 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
22835 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
22836 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
22837 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
22838 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
22839 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
22840 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
22842 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22843 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
22844 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
22845 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
22846 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
22847 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
22848 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
22849 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
22850 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
22851 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
22852 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
22854 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
22855 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
22856 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
22857 fingerprints with or without space.
22859 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
22860 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
22861 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
22862 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
22863 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
22864 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
22865 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
22866 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
22867 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
22869 o Minor features (bridges):
22870 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
22871 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
22873 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
22874 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
22877 o Minor features (hidden services):
22878 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
22879 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
22880 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
22881 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
22882 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
22883 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
22884 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
22885 faster after restart.
22886 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
22887 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
22889 o Minor features (build and packaging):
22890 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
22892 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
22893 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
22895 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
22896 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
22897 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
22898 entirely. Patch from coderman.
22899 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
22900 are built without support for deprecated functions.
22901 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
22902 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
22903 system to do it for us.
22904 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
22905 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
22906 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
22907 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
22908 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
22909 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
22910 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
22911 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
22912 the letter of C99's alias rules.
22913 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
22914 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
22915 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
22916 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
22917 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
22918 with log.h on Android.
22919 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
22920 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
22922 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
22923 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
22924 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
22925 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
22927 o Minor features (controllers):
22928 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
22929 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
22930 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
22931 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
22932 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
22933 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
22934 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
22935 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
22936 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
22937 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
22939 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
22940 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
22941 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
22942 been fetched and validated.
22943 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
22944 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
22946 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
22948 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
22949 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
22950 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
22951 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
22952 partway through and wants to catch up.
22953 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
22955 o Minor features (tools):
22956 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
22957 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
22958 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
22959 people find host:port too confusing.
22960 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
22961 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
22963 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
22964 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
22965 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22966 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
22967 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
22968 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
22969 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
22970 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
22971 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
22973 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
22974 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
22975 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
22976 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
22977 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
22979 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
22980 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
22981 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
22983 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
22984 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22985 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
22986 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
22987 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
22988 have already been marked for close.
22989 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
22990 memory performance during directory parsing.
22992 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22993 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
22994 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
22995 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
22996 done that for a long time.
22997 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
22998 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
22999 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
23000 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
23001 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
23002 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
23003 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
23004 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
23005 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23006 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
23007 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
23008 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
23009 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
23010 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
23011 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
23012 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
23013 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
23014 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
23015 because of a pending download.
23016 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
23017 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
23018 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
23019 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
23020 bug 820, reported by seeess.
23022 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23023 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
23024 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
23025 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
23026 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
23027 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
23028 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
23029 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
23030 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
23032 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23033 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
23035 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
23036 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
23037 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23038 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
23039 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
23040 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
23041 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
23042 of 0. Suggested by lark.
23043 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
23044 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
23045 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
23046 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
23047 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
23049 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
23050 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
23051 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
23053 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
23054 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
23056 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
23057 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
23058 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
23059 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
23060 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
23061 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
23062 rest, and don't automatically fail.
23063 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
23064 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
23065 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
23066 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
23067 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
23068 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23070 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23071 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
23072 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
23073 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
23074 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
23075 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
23076 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
23078 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
23079 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23081 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23082 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
23083 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
23084 Workaround for bug 1024.
23085 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
23086 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
23087 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
23088 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
23089 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
23090 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
23091 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
23092 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
23095 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
23096 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
23099 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23100 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
23101 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
23102 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
23103 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
23104 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
23105 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
23107 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
23108 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
23109 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
23110 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
23111 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
23112 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
23113 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
23114 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
23117 o Deprecated and removed features:
23118 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
23119 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
23120 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
23122 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
23124 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
23125 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
23126 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
23127 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
23128 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
23129 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
23130 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
23131 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
23132 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
23133 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
23134 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
23135 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
23136 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
23137 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
23140 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23141 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
23142 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
23143 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
23144 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
23146 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
23147 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
23148 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
23149 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
23150 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
23151 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
23152 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
23153 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
23154 actual mistakes we're making here.
23155 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
23156 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
23157 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
23158 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
23159 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
23160 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
23161 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
23162 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
23163 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
23164 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
23165 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
23166 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
23167 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
23168 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
23169 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
23172 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
23174 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
23175 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
23176 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
23177 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
23178 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23181 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
23182 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
23183 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
23184 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
23185 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
23186 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
23187 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
23188 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
23189 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
23190 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
23193 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
23194 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
23195 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
23196 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
23197 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
23198 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
23199 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
23200 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
23203 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
23204 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
23205 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
23206 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
23207 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
23209 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
23210 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
23211 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
23212 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23215 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
23216 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23217 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
23218 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
23219 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
23220 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
23221 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
23222 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
23225 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
23226 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
23227 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
23228 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
23231 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
23232 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
23233 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
23234 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
23236 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
23237 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
23238 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
23241 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
23242 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
23245 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
23246 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
23247 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
23248 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
23249 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
23250 reported by "wood".
23251 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
23252 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
23253 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
23254 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
23255 identify a connection.
23256 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
23257 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
23258 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
23259 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
23260 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
23261 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
23262 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23263 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
23264 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
23265 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
23267 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
23268 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
23269 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
23270 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
23271 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
23272 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
23273 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
23276 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
23277 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
23279 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
23280 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
23281 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
23282 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
23283 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
23284 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
23285 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23286 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
23288 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
23289 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
23290 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
23291 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
23292 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
23293 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
23294 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
23295 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
23296 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
23297 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
23298 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
23299 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
23300 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
23301 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
23302 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23303 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
23304 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
23305 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
23306 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
23307 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
23308 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
23309 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
23310 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
23311 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
23312 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
23313 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
23314 840. Patch from rovv.
23315 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
23316 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
23317 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
23319 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
23320 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
23321 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
23322 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
23323 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
23324 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
23325 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
23327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23328 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
23329 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
23332 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
23333 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
23335 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
23336 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
23337 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
23338 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
23339 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
23340 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
23341 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
23342 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
23343 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
23345 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
23347 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
23348 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
23352 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
23353 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
23354 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
23355 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
23356 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
23357 variety of other issues.
23360 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
23361 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
23362 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
23363 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
23364 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
23365 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
23366 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
23367 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
23368 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
23369 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
23370 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
23371 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
23374 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
23375 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
23377 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23378 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
23379 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
23380 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
23381 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
23382 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
23383 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23384 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
23385 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
23386 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
23387 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
23388 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
23389 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
23390 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
23391 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
23395 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
23396 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
23397 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
23398 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
23399 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
23400 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
23401 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
23402 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
23403 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
23404 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
23405 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
23406 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
23407 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
23408 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
23409 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
23410 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
23411 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
23412 list. It has been gone for many months.
23413 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
23414 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
23415 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
23418 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23419 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
23420 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
23423 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
23424 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
23425 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
23426 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
23429 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23430 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23431 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23432 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
23433 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
23434 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
23436 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
23437 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
23438 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
23439 pointed out by rovv.
23442 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
23443 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23444 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
23445 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23446 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
23447 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
23448 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
23449 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
23450 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
23451 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23452 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
23453 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
23454 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
23455 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23456 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
23457 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
23458 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
23459 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
23460 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
23461 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
23462 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
23465 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
23466 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
23467 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
23468 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
23469 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
23470 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
23471 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
23473 o New v3 directory design:
23474 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
23475 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
23476 network status document rather than each publishing their own
23477 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
23478 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
23479 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
23480 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
23482 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
23483 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
23484 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
23485 dannenberg (run by CCC).
23486 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
23487 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
23488 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
23489 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
23490 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
23491 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
23492 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
23493 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
23494 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
23495 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
23497 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
23498 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
23499 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
23500 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
23501 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
23502 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
23503 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
23504 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
23505 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
23506 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
23507 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
23508 certain censored countries by default again.
23509 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
23510 Tor's x509 certificates.
23512 o Implement bridge relays:
23513 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
23514 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
23515 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
23516 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
23517 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
23518 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
23519 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
23520 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
23521 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
23522 rather than "v2,v3".
23523 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
23524 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
23525 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
23526 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
23527 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
23528 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
23529 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
23530 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
23531 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
23532 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
23533 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
23535 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
23536 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
23537 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
23538 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
23539 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
23540 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
23541 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
23542 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
23543 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
23544 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
23545 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
23546 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
23547 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
23548 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
23549 bridges are functioning.
23550 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
23551 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
23552 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
23553 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
23554 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
23555 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
23556 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
23557 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
23558 knows that password. Unset by default.
23559 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
23560 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
23561 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
23562 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
23563 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
23564 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
23565 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
23566 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
23567 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
23568 and bridges@torproject.org.
23570 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
23571 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
23572 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
23573 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
23574 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
23575 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
23576 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
23577 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
23578 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
23579 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
23580 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
23581 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
23582 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
23583 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
23584 longer a completely silly thing to do.
23586 o Major features (relay usability):
23587 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
23588 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
23589 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
23590 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
23591 proposal 111 for details.
23592 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
23593 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
23594 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
23595 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
23597 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
23598 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
23599 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
23601 o Major features (directory authorities):
23602 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
23603 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
23604 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
23605 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
23606 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
23607 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
23608 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
23609 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
23610 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
23611 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
23612 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
23613 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
23614 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
23616 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
23617 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
23618 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
23619 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
23620 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
23621 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
23622 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
23623 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
23624 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
23625 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
23626 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
23627 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
23628 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
23629 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
23630 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
23631 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
23632 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
23633 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
23634 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
23635 general, controller, or bridge.
23637 o Major features (other):
23638 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
23639 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
23640 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
23641 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
23642 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23643 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
23644 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
23645 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
23646 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
23647 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
23648 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
23649 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
23650 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
23651 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
23654 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
23655 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
23656 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
23658 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
23659 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
23660 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
23661 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
23662 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
23663 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
23664 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
23665 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
23666 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
23667 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
23668 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
23670 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
23671 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
23673 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
23674 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
23675 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
23676 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
23678 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
23679 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
23680 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
23681 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
23682 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
23684 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
23685 address maps to an internal address space.
23686 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
23687 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
23688 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
23689 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
23690 complements proposal 107.
23691 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
23692 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
23693 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
23694 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
23695 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
23696 reported by taranis and lodger.
23697 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
23698 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
23699 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
23700 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
23701 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
23702 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
23703 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
23704 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
23705 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
23706 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
23707 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
23708 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
23709 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
23711 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
23712 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
23714 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
23715 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
23716 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
23717 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
23718 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
23719 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
23720 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
23722 o Major bugfixes (other):
23723 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
23724 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
23725 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
23727 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
23728 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
23729 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
23730 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
23731 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
23732 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
23733 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
23734 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
23735 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
23736 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
23737 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
23738 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
23739 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
23740 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
23741 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
23742 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
23743 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
23744 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
23745 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
23747 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
23748 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
23749 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
23750 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
23751 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
23752 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
23753 eat all of our bandwidth.
23754 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
23755 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
23756 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
23757 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
23758 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
23759 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
23760 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
23761 bug 688, reported by mfr.
23762 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
23763 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
23764 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
23765 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
23767 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
23768 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
23769 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
23770 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
23771 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
23772 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
23773 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
23774 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
23775 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
23776 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
23777 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
23778 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
23780 o Performance improvements (memory):
23781 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
23782 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
23783 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
23784 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
23785 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
23786 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
23787 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
23788 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
23789 memory fragmentation.
23790 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
23791 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
23792 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
23793 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
23794 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
23796 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
23797 of them were actually distinct.
23798 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
23800 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
23801 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
23802 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
23803 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
23804 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
23805 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
23806 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
23807 performance-intensive.
23808 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
23809 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
23810 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
23811 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
23812 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
23815 o Performance improvements (socket management):
23816 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
23817 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
23818 our allocated connection limit.
23819 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
23820 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
23821 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
23822 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
23823 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
23825 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
23826 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
23828 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
23829 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
23830 is interested in a given message.
23831 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
23832 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
23833 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
23834 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
23835 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
23837 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
23838 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
23839 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
23841 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
23842 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
23843 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
23844 they are the same).
23845 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
23846 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
23847 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
23848 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
23851 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
23852 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
23853 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
23854 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
23855 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
23856 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
23857 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
23859 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
23860 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
23861 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
23862 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
23863 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
23864 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
23865 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
23866 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
23867 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
23868 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
23869 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
23870 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
23871 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
23874 o Changed config option behavior (features):
23875 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
23876 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
23877 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
23878 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
23879 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
23880 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
23881 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
23882 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
23883 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
23884 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
23885 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
23886 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
23887 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
23888 and are reaching it.
23889 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
23890 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
23891 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
23892 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
23894 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
23895 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
23896 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
23897 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
23898 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
23899 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
23900 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
23901 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
23902 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
23904 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
23905 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
23906 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
23907 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
23908 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
23909 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
23910 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
23911 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
23913 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
23914 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
23916 o New config options:
23917 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
23918 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
23919 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
23920 running a test network on a single host.
23921 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
23922 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
23923 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
23924 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
23925 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
23926 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
23927 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
23928 the approved-routers file.
23929 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
23930 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
23931 v2 directory information.
23933 o Minor features (other):
23934 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
23935 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
23936 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
23937 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
23938 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
23939 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
23941 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
23942 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
23943 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
23944 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
23945 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
23946 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
23947 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
23949 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
23950 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
23951 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
23953 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
23954 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
23955 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
23956 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
23957 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
23959 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
23960 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
23961 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
23962 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
23963 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
23964 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
23965 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
23967 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
23968 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
23969 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
23970 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
23971 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
23972 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
23973 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
23974 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
23975 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
23978 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23979 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
23980 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
23982 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
23983 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
23984 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
23985 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
23986 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
23987 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
23989 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
23990 bandwidthburst values.
23991 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
23992 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
23993 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
23994 to mark all our entry points down.
23995 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
23996 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
23997 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
23998 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
23999 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
24001 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
24002 more often than they are allowed to appear.
24003 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
24004 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24005 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
24006 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
24007 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
24008 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
24009 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
24011 o Controller features:
24012 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
24013 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
24014 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
24015 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
24016 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
24017 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
24019 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
24020 multiple controller passwords.
24021 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
24022 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
24023 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
24024 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
24026 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
24027 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
24028 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
24029 cookie authentication file, and config option
24030 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
24031 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
24032 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24033 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
24035 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
24036 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
24037 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
24038 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
24039 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
24040 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
24041 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
24043 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
24044 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
24046 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
24047 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
24048 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
24049 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
24050 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
24051 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
24052 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
24053 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
24054 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
24055 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
24056 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
24057 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
24058 report the value as a "minimum skew."
24060 o Controller bugfixes:
24061 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
24062 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
24063 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
24064 processes can't run us out of memory.
24065 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
24066 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
24067 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
24069 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
24070 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
24071 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
24072 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
24073 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
24074 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
24075 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
24076 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
24077 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
24078 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
24079 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
24080 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
24081 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
24082 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
24083 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
24085 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
24086 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
24088 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
24089 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
24090 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
24091 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
24092 WARN-severity events.
24094 o Portability / building / compiling:
24095 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
24096 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
24097 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
24098 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
24099 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
24100 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
24101 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
24102 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
24103 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
24104 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
24105 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
24106 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
24107 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
24109 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
24110 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
24111 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
24112 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
24113 Use this version consistently in log messages.
24114 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
24115 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24116 partial results on small file reads.
24117 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
24118 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
24119 a directory. Fix from lodger.
24120 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
24121 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
24122 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
24124 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
24125 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
24126 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
24127 logging for the unit tests.
24128 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
24129 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
24131 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
24132 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
24134 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
24135 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
24136 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
24137 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
24140 o Logging improvements:
24141 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
24142 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
24143 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
24144 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
24145 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
24146 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
24147 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
24149 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
24150 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
24151 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
24152 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
24153 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
24154 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
24155 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
24156 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
24157 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
24158 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
24159 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
24160 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
24161 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
24162 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
24163 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
24164 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
24165 Good in combination with --hash-password.
24166 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
24167 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
24169 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
24170 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
24171 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
24172 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
24174 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
24175 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
24176 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
24177 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
24178 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
24180 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
24181 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
24182 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
24183 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
24184 makes the log messages nicer.
24185 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
24186 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
24188 o Contributed scripts and tools:
24189 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
24190 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
24192 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
24193 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
24194 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
24195 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
24196 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
24197 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
24198 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
24199 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
24200 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
24201 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
24203 o Newly deprecated features:
24204 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
24205 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
24206 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
24207 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
24209 o Removed features:
24210 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
24211 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
24212 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
24213 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
24214 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
24216 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
24217 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
24218 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
24219 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
24220 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
24221 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
24222 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
24223 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
24225 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
24226 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
24227 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
24228 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
24229 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
24230 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
24232 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
24233 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
24234 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
24235 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
24236 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
24237 patch from Karsten Loesing.
24238 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
24239 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
24240 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
24241 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
24242 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
24243 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
24244 code), this assumption no longer holds.
24245 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
24249 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
24250 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
24251 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
24252 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24255 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
24256 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
24257 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
24258 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
24259 on network address.
24262 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
24263 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
24264 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
24265 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
24266 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
24267 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
24268 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
24269 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
24270 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
24271 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
24272 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
24273 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
24276 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
24277 rebuild our server descriptor.
24278 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
24279 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
24280 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
24281 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
24282 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
24283 nonstandard integer types.
24284 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
24285 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
24286 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
24287 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
24288 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
24290 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
24291 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
24292 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
24293 when they receive them.
24294 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
24295 This includes some 64-bit systems.
24296 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
24297 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
24298 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
24299 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
24300 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
24301 router_get_by_hexdigest().
24302 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
24303 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
24307 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
24308 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
24309 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
24310 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
24311 lists for a few hours each day.
24313 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24314 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
24315 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
24316 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
24317 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
24318 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24319 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
24320 rend_process_relay_cell().
24322 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24323 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
24324 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
24325 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
24326 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
24327 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
24328 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
24329 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
24331 o Major bugfixes (other):
24332 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
24333 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
24334 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
24335 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
24336 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
24337 circuit cannibalization).
24338 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
24339 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
24340 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
24341 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
24342 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
24343 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
24346 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
24347 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
24349 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
24350 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
24351 absent. Resolves bug 467.
24352 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
24353 a way to trigger this remotely.)
24354 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
24355 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
24356 were reporting the dir port.)
24357 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
24358 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
24359 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
24360 the future. Fixes bug 434.
24361 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
24363 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
24364 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
24365 the onion key from getting rotated.
24366 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
24367 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
24368 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
24369 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
24370 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
24371 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
24372 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24375 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
24376 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
24377 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
24378 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
24379 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
24382 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
24383 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
24386 o Major bugfixes (security):
24387 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
24388 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
24389 become more of a headache than it's worth.
24391 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
24392 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
24393 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
24395 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
24396 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
24397 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
24398 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
24399 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
24400 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
24402 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
24403 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
24404 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
24405 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
24406 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
24408 o Minor features (controller):
24409 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
24410 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
24411 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
24412 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
24414 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
24415 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
24416 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
24417 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
24418 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
24419 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
24420 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
24421 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
24423 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24424 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
24425 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
24426 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
24427 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
24428 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
24429 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
24430 if we ran off the end of the list.
24431 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
24432 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
24433 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
24434 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
24435 every time we change any piece of our config.
24436 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
24437 encourage people using them to stop.
24438 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
24440 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
24441 servers to choose a circuit.
24442 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
24443 unparseable piece of it.
24446 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
24447 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
24448 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
24449 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
24450 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
24451 TorK, etc. Or worse.
24453 o Major security fixes:
24454 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
24455 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
24458 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
24459 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
24460 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
24461 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
24463 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
24464 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
24466 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24467 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
24468 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
24469 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
24470 routerlist while inserting a new router.
24471 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
24472 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
24474 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
24475 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
24476 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
24478 o Major bugfixes (security):
24479 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
24481 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
24482 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
24483 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
24484 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
24485 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
24486 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
24487 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
24488 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
24489 guard list unless we need to.
24491 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
24492 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
24493 don't get overused as guards.
24495 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
24496 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
24497 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
24498 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
24499 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
24501 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24502 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
24503 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
24506 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24507 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24508 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
24509 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
24510 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
24511 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
24512 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
24513 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
24516 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
24517 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
24518 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
24519 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
24521 o Directory authority changes:
24522 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
24523 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
24524 or use hidden services.
24526 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24527 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
24528 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
24529 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
24530 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
24531 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
24532 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
24533 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
24534 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
24537 o Major bugfixes (security):
24538 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
24539 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
24540 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
24542 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
24543 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
24544 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
24545 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
24546 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
24547 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
24548 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
24549 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
24550 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
24551 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
24554 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
24555 purpose=controller.
24556 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
24557 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
24559 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
24560 having a hard time downloading.
24561 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
24562 partial results on small file reads.
24563 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
24564 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
24565 the gaps in the store get very large.
24568 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
24569 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
24571 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
24572 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
24575 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
24576 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
24577 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
24578 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
24579 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
24580 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
24582 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
24583 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
24584 free speech on the Internet.
24586 o Major features, client performance:
24587 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
24588 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
24589 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
24590 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
24591 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
24592 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
24593 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
24594 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
24595 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
24596 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
24597 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
24598 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
24599 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
24600 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
24601 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
24603 o Major features, client functionality:
24604 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
24605 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
24606 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
24607 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
24608 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
24609 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
24610 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
24611 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
24612 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
24613 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
24614 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
24615 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
24616 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
24618 o Major features, servers:
24619 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
24620 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
24621 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
24622 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
24623 authenticated, so use with care.
24624 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
24625 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
24626 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
24628 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
24629 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
24630 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
24631 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
24632 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
24633 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
24635 o Improvements on DNS support:
24636 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
24637 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
24638 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
24639 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
24640 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
24641 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
24642 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
24643 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
24644 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
24645 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
24646 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
24647 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
24648 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
24649 lets you turn it off.
24650 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
24651 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
24652 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
24653 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
24654 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
24655 useful to the network.
24656 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
24657 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
24658 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
24659 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
24660 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
24661 our tests for DNS hijacking.
24663 o Improvements on reachability testing:
24664 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
24665 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
24666 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
24667 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
24668 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
24669 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
24670 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
24671 if their identity keys are as expected.
24672 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
24673 chews through many circuits before giving up.
24674 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
24675 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
24676 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
24677 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
24678 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
24679 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
24680 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
24681 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
24682 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
24683 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
24684 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
24685 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
24687 o Improvements on rate limiting:
24688 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
24689 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
24690 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
24691 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
24692 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
24694 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
24695 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
24696 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
24697 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
24698 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
24699 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
24700 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
24701 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
24703 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
24704 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
24706 o Major features, NT services:
24707 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
24708 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
24709 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
24710 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
24711 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
24712 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
24713 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
24715 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
24716 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
24717 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
24719 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
24720 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
24721 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
24723 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
24724 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
24726 o Directory authority improvements:
24727 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
24729 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
24730 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
24731 too much load to the exit nodes.
24732 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
24733 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
24734 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
24735 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
24736 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
24737 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
24738 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
24739 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
24740 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
24741 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
24742 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
24743 broken. Not used yet.
24744 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
24745 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
24746 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
24747 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
24748 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
24749 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
24750 non-versioning dirservers.
24751 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
24752 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
24753 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
24755 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
24756 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
24757 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
24758 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
24760 o Directory mirrors and clients:
24761 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
24762 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
24763 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
24764 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
24765 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
24766 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
24767 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
24768 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
24769 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
24770 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
24771 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
24772 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
24773 routers for even longer.
24774 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
24775 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
24776 caching HTTP proxies.
24777 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
24778 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
24779 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
24780 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
24782 o Major fixes, crashes:
24783 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
24784 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
24785 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
24786 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
24788 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
24789 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
24790 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
24791 stream is detached.
24792 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
24793 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
24794 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
24795 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
24796 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
24797 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
24798 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
24799 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
24800 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
24801 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
24803 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
24804 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
24805 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
24806 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
24807 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
24808 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
24809 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
24810 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
24811 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
24812 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
24813 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
24814 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
24815 could return an unnamed server instead.
24816 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
24817 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
24818 a more attractive target for compromise.)
24819 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
24820 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
24821 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
24822 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
24824 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
24825 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
24827 o Major fixes, other:
24828 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
24829 uptime in the descriptor.
24830 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
24831 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
24832 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
24833 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
24834 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
24835 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
24836 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
24837 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
24838 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
24839 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
24840 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
24841 our DirPort now, etc.
24842 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
24843 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
24844 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
24846 o New config options or behaviors:
24847 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
24848 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
24849 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
24850 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
24851 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
24852 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
24853 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
24854 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
24855 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
24856 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24857 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
24858 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
24860 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
24861 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
24862 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
24863 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
24864 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
24866 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
24867 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
24868 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
24869 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
24870 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
24871 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
24872 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
24873 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
24874 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
24875 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
24876 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
24877 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
24878 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
24879 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
24880 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
24881 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
24882 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
24883 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
24884 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
24885 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
24886 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
24887 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
24888 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
24889 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
24890 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
24891 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
24892 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
24893 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
24894 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
24895 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
24897 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
24898 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
24899 your ORPort is set.
24902 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
24903 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
24905 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
24906 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
24907 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
24908 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
24910 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
24911 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
24912 whether the config options are bad or good.
24913 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
24914 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
24915 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
24916 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
24917 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
24918 result more than once.
24919 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
24920 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
24921 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
24922 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
24923 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
24924 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
24925 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
24926 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
24927 before we check for libevent.
24928 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
24929 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
24930 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
24931 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
24932 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
24933 recommendation system saner.)
24934 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
24935 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
24936 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
24937 now universal binaries.
24938 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
24939 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
24941 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
24943 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
24944 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
24945 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
24946 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
24947 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
24948 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
24950 o Minor features, controller:
24951 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
24952 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
24953 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
24955 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
24956 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
24957 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
24958 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
24959 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
24960 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
24961 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
24963 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
24964 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
24965 connected or resolved cell.
24966 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
24967 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
24968 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
24969 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
24970 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
24971 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
24972 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
24974 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
24975 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
24976 entry guard status as it changes.
24977 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
24978 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
24979 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
24980 watching for STREAM events.
24981 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
24982 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
24983 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
24984 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
24986 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
24987 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
24988 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
24989 working much like those for circuit events.
24990 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
24991 about the current status of a router.
24992 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
24993 a router's status has changed.
24994 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
24995 can tell which events and features are supported.
24996 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
24997 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
24998 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
24999 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
25000 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
25001 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
25002 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
25003 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
25004 for more information.
25005 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
25006 best guess to the user.
25007 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
25008 descriptor has changed.
25009 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
25010 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
25011 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
25013 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
25014 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
25015 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
25016 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
25017 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
25018 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
25019 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
25020 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
25021 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
25022 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
25023 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
25025 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
25026 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
25028 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
25029 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
25030 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
25032 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
25033 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
25034 the controller from learning about current events.
25035 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
25036 reported by Mike Perry.
25037 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
25038 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
25039 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
25040 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
25041 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
25042 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
25043 long nicknames where appropriate.
25044 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
25045 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
25047 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
25048 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
25049 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
25050 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
25051 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
25053 o Minor features, code performance:
25054 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
25055 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
25056 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
25058 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
25059 some profiles, but not others.)
25060 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
25061 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
25062 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
25063 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
25064 operations, for profiling.
25065 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
25066 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
25067 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
25068 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
25069 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
25070 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
25071 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
25072 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
25074 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
25075 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
25076 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
25077 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
25078 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
25079 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
25080 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
25081 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
25082 family lists conveniently.
25084 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
25085 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
25086 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
25087 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
25088 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
25089 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
25090 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
25091 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
25092 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
25093 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
25094 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
25095 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
25096 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
25097 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
25098 of it), is not therefore "up".
25100 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
25101 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
25102 what version a router is running.
25103 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
25104 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
25105 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
25106 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
25108 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
25109 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
25110 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
25111 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
25112 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
25115 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
25116 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
25117 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
25119 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
25120 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
25122 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
25123 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
25124 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
25125 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
25126 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
25127 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
25128 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
25129 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
25130 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
25131 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
25133 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
25134 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
25135 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
25136 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
25137 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
25138 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
25139 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
25140 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
25141 get one we don't recognize.
25144 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
25145 o Security bugfixes:
25146 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
25147 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
25148 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
25149 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
25153 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
25154 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
25155 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
25158 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
25160 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
25161 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
25162 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25163 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
25164 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
25165 its circuits on demand.
25166 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
25167 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
25168 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
25169 connections more stable on average.
25170 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
25171 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
25172 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
25174 o Security bugfixes:
25175 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
25176 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
25179 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
25181 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
25182 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
25183 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
25184 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
25185 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
25186 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
25187 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
25188 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
25191 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
25193 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
25194 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
25195 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
25196 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
25197 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
25198 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
25199 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
25200 it can't resolve its hostname.
25201 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
25202 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
25203 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25206 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
25207 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
25208 "extendcircuit" request.
25209 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
25210 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
25211 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
25212 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
25214 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
25215 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
25216 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
25218 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
25219 methods: these are known to be buggy.
25220 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
25221 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
25222 we don't recognize.
25225 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
25227 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
25228 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
25229 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
25230 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
25231 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
25232 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
25233 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
25234 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
25235 test reachability, so you won't publish.
25238 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
25239 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
25240 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
25241 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
25242 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
25244 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
25245 own server descriptor yet.
25248 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
25250 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
25251 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
25252 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
25253 make sure to test via one of these.
25254 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
25255 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
25256 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
25257 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
25258 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
25260 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
25261 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
25262 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
25265 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
25266 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
25267 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
25268 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
25269 directory authority.
25270 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
25271 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
25272 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
25273 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
25276 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
25277 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
25278 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
25280 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
25281 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
25282 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
25283 current guards when picking a new guard.
25284 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
25285 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
25286 when we had more than one pending.
25287 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
25288 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
25289 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
25290 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
25291 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
25292 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
25293 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
25294 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
25295 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
25296 debug the reachability problems better.
25298 o Log / documentation fixes:
25299 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
25300 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
25301 about protocol violations by others.
25302 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
25303 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
25304 about what happened to our old torrc.
25307 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
25308 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
25309 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
25310 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
25311 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
25312 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
25314 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
25315 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
25316 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
25317 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
25318 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
25319 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
25320 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
25321 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
25322 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
25323 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
25324 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
25325 on malicious huge inputs.
25327 o Security fixes, major:
25328 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
25329 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
25330 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
25331 misreading their logs.
25332 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
25333 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
25334 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
25335 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
25336 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
25337 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
25338 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
25339 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
25340 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
25341 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
25342 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
25343 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
25344 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
25345 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
25347 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
25348 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
25349 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
25350 firewall options forbid.
25351 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
25352 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
25353 can only proxy to certain destinations.
25354 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
25355 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
25356 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
25358 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
25359 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
25360 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
25361 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
25362 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
25363 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
25364 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
25365 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
25366 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
25367 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
25368 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
25369 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
25370 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
25372 o Security fixes, minor:
25373 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
25374 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
25376 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
25377 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
25378 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
25379 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
25380 if we've not heard of a server.
25381 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
25382 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
25383 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
25384 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
25385 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
25386 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
25387 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
25388 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
25389 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
25390 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
25391 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
25392 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
25393 aids some statistical attacks.
25394 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
25395 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
25396 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
25397 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
25398 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
25399 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
25400 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
25401 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
25404 o Packaging improvements:
25405 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
25406 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
25407 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
25408 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
25409 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
25410 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
25412 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
25413 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
25414 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
25415 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
25416 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
25417 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
25419 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
25420 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
25421 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
25423 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
25424 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
25425 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
25426 They are useless now.
25427 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
25428 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
25429 is reachable by you.
25430 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
25433 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
25434 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
25435 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
25436 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
25437 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
25438 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
25439 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
25440 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
25441 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
25442 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
25443 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
25444 and isolating attacks better.
25445 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
25446 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
25447 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
25448 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
25449 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
25450 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
25451 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
25452 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
25453 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
25454 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
25455 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
25457 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
25458 can answer v2 directory requests too.
25459 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
25460 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
25461 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
25462 mirrors still cache and serve it).
25463 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
25464 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
25465 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
25466 for clients and for servers.
25467 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
25468 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
25469 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
25470 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
25471 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
25472 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
25473 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
25474 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
25475 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
25476 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
25477 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
25479 o Other directory improvements:
25480 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
25481 fifth authoritative directory servers.
25482 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
25483 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
25484 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
25485 to hang up on them.
25486 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
25487 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
25488 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
25489 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
25490 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
25491 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
25493 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
25494 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
25495 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
25496 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
25497 connections more reliable.
25498 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
25499 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
25500 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
25501 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
25502 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
25503 we fail to connect).
25504 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
25506 o Controller protocol improvements:
25507 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
25508 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
25509 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
25510 applications without caring how our protocol works.
25511 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
25512 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
25513 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
25514 many bytes we've used in this time period.
25515 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
25516 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
25517 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
25518 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
25519 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
25520 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
25521 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
25522 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
25523 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
25524 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
25525 or "signal reload".
25526 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
25527 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
25528 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
25529 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
25530 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
25531 a router in its role as directory authority.
25532 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
25533 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
25534 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
25535 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
25536 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
25537 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
25538 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
25539 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
25540 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
25541 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
25542 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
25543 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
25544 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
25545 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
25546 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
25547 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
25548 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
25549 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
25551 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
25552 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
25553 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
25554 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
25555 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
25556 just tell them to go read their logs.
25558 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
25559 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
25560 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
25561 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
25562 try to be a bit more fair.
25563 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
25564 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
25565 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
25566 and we're using a default DirPort.
25567 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
25568 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
25569 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
25570 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
25571 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
25572 services faster on the service end.
25573 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
25575 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
25576 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
25577 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
25578 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
25579 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
25580 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
25581 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
25582 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
25583 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
25584 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
25585 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
25586 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
25587 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
25588 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
25589 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
25590 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
25591 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
25592 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
25593 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
25594 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
25595 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
25596 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
25597 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
25598 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
25599 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
25601 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
25602 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
25603 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
25604 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
25605 so we can be backward-compatible.
25606 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
25607 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
25608 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
25609 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
25610 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
25611 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
25612 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
25613 initial descriptor forever.
25614 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
25615 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
25616 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
25617 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
25618 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
25619 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
25620 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
25621 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
25622 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
25623 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
25624 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
25625 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
25626 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
25627 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
25628 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
25629 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
25630 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
25631 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
25632 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
25633 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
25634 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
25635 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
25636 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
25637 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
25638 ports that have changed.
25639 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
25640 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
25641 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
25642 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
25643 connections once a week.
25644 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
25645 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
25646 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
25647 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
25648 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
25649 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
25650 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
25651 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
25652 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
25653 able to discover them.
25654 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
25655 want to make it an NT service.
25656 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
25657 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
25658 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
25659 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
25660 memory leaks better.
25661 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
25662 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
25663 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
25664 statistics are now uint64_t's.
25665 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
25666 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
25667 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
25668 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
25669 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
25670 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
25671 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
25672 default ulimit -n is 1024.
25673 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
25674 and its existence is confusing some users.
25676 o Config option fixes:
25677 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
25678 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
25679 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
25680 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
25681 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
25682 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
25683 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
25684 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
25685 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
25687 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
25688 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
25689 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
25690 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
25691 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
25692 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
25693 it would silently ignore the 6668.
25694 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
25695 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
25696 silently resetting it to its default.
25697 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
25698 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
25699 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
25700 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
25701 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
25702 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
25703 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
25704 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25705 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25706 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
25707 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
25708 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
25709 Address config option.
25710 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
25711 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
25713 o Config option features:
25714 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
25715 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
25716 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
25717 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
25718 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
25720 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
25721 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
25722 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
25723 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
25724 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
25725 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
25726 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
25727 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
25728 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
25729 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
25730 in at least some cases.)
25731 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
25732 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
25733 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
25734 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
25735 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
25736 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
25737 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
25738 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
25739 even if we know they're jerks.
25740 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
25741 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
25742 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
25743 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
25744 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
25745 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
25746 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
25747 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
25748 because older Tors do not understand it.
25749 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
25750 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
25751 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
25752 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
25753 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
25754 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
25755 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
25756 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
25757 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
25758 unattached before we fail it?
25759 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
25760 at least this many seconds ago.
25761 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
25762 at least this many seconds ago.
25763 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
25764 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
25766 o Improved and clearer log messages:
25767 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
25768 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
25769 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
25771 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
25772 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
25773 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
25774 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
25775 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
25776 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
25777 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
25778 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
25779 temporarily unreachable.
25780 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
25781 Windows-style errno back.
25782 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
25783 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
25785 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
25786 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
25787 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
25788 exactly for this case.
25789 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
25790 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
25791 don't warn twice about the same name.
25792 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
25794 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
25795 it was self-testing that told us so.
25796 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
25797 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
25798 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
25799 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
25800 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
25801 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
25802 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
25803 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
25804 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
25805 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
25806 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
25807 established a circuit.
25808 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
25809 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
25810 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
25811 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
25812 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
25813 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
25814 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
25815 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
25816 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
25817 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
25818 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
25819 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
25820 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
25821 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
25822 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
25823 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
25824 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
25825 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
25826 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
25827 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
25828 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
25829 testing for reachability.
25830 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
25831 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
25833 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
25836 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
25837 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25838 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
25839 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
25841 o Other important bugfixes:
25842 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
25843 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
25844 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
25845 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
25847 o Backported features:
25848 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
25849 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
25850 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
25851 without getting overloaded.
25852 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
25853 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
25854 503's whenever they feel busy.
25855 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
25856 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
25857 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
25858 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
25859 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
25862 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
25863 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25864 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
25865 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
25866 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
25867 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
25868 too -- so detect and avoid this.
25869 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
25871 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
25872 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
25873 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
25874 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
25875 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
25876 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
25877 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
25878 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
25879 rendezvous circuits.
25880 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
25882 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25883 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
25884 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
25885 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
25886 advertising it because of hibernation.
25887 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
25888 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
25889 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
25890 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
25891 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
25892 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
25893 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
25894 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
25895 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
25896 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
25897 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
25898 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
25899 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
25900 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
25901 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
25904 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
25905 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25906 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
25907 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
25908 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
25909 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
25910 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
25911 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
25912 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
25913 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
25914 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
25915 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
25916 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
25917 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
25918 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
25921 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
25922 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25923 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
25925 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
25926 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
25929 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
25930 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25931 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
25932 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
25933 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
25934 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
25935 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
25937 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
25938 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
25942 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
25943 o New directory servers:
25944 - tor26 has changed IP address.
25946 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25947 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
25948 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
25949 pthreads libraries.
25950 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
25951 claims its dirport is 0.
25952 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
25953 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
25957 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
25958 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
25959 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
25960 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
25961 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
25962 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
25963 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
25964 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
25967 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
25969 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
25970 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
25971 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
25972 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
25973 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
25974 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
25975 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
25976 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
25977 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
25979 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
25980 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
25982 o Assert / crash bugs:
25983 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
25984 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
25985 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
25987 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
25988 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
25989 TLS errors better in other situations too.
25990 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
25991 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
25994 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
25995 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
25996 duplicate ram over time.
25997 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
25998 reentry and threadsafeness.
25999 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
26000 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
26001 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
26003 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
26004 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
26005 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
26006 point at your Tor server.
26007 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
26009 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
26010 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
26013 o Protocol correctness:
26014 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
26015 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
26016 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
26017 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
26018 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
26019 to abandon partially built circuits.
26020 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
26021 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
26022 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
26023 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
26024 descriptors we just dropped.
26025 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
26026 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
26027 and to take errno into account where possible.
26028 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
26029 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
26030 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
26031 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
26033 o Robustness improvements:
26034 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
26035 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
26036 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
26038 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
26039 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
26040 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
26041 that will want high uptime circuits.
26042 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
26043 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
26044 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
26045 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
26046 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
26047 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
26048 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
26049 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
26050 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
26051 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
26052 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
26053 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
26054 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
26055 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
26056 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
26057 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
26058 for google.com" problem.
26059 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
26060 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
26061 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
26062 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
26063 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
26066 o Reachability testing.
26067 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
26068 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
26069 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
26070 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
26071 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
26072 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
26073 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
26074 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
26075 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
26076 already connected to them.
26077 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
26081 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
26082 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
26083 nickname+key are allowed.
26084 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
26085 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
26086 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
26087 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
26088 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
26089 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
26090 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
26091 have quite wrong clocks).
26092 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
26093 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
26094 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
26095 their descriptors are being rejected.
26097 o Efficiency improvements:
26098 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
26099 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
26100 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
26101 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
26102 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
26103 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
26104 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
26105 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
26106 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
26107 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
26109 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
26110 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
26111 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
26112 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
26113 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
26114 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
26115 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
26116 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
26117 of CPU time plus memory.
26118 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
26119 directory every time you regenerate it.
26120 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
26121 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
26122 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
26123 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
26124 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
26125 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
26126 lowercase when you first see them.
26129 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
26130 hidden services better.
26131 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
26132 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
26133 when we try to launch one.
26134 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
26135 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
26136 attempts to build a circuit.
26137 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
26138 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
26139 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
26140 normal web requests.
26143 - More Tor controller support. See
26144 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
26145 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
26146 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
26147 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
26148 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
26149 to make it easier to write controllers.
26150 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
26151 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
26152 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
26153 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
26154 new log event types.
26156 o New config options/defaults:
26157 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
26158 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
26159 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
26160 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
26161 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
26163 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
26165 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
26166 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
26167 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
26168 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
26169 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
26171 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
26172 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
26173 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
26174 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
26175 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
26176 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
26177 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
26178 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
26179 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
26180 required exit node for certain sites.
26181 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
26182 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
26183 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
26184 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
26185 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
26186 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
26187 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
26188 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
26189 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
26191 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
26192 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
26193 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
26194 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
26195 private-IP addresses.
26196 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
26197 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
26198 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
26199 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
26200 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
26201 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
26202 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
26203 is valid without actually launching Tor.
26205 o Logging improvements:
26206 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
26207 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
26208 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
26209 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
26211 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
26212 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
26213 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
26214 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
26215 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
26216 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
26217 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
26218 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
26219 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
26221 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
26223 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
26224 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
26225 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
26226 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
26227 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
26228 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
26230 o New contrib scripts:
26231 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
26232 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
26234 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
26235 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
26236 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
26237 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
26238 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
26239 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
26241 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
26242 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
26243 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
26244 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
26248 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
26249 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
26250 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
26251 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
26252 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
26253 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
26254 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
26256 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
26257 something more reasonable when first installing.
26258 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
26259 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
26260 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
26261 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
26263 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
26264 artificially capped at 500kB.
26265 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
26267 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
26268 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
26269 they could use instead.
26270 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
26271 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
26272 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
26273 the user asks you to.
26276 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
26277 rather than just rejecting it.
26278 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
26279 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
26280 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
26281 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
26282 rather than just "success" or "failure".
26283 - A more sane version numbering system. See
26284 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
26285 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
26286 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
26287 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
26288 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
26289 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
26291 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
26292 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
26293 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
26294 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
26296 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
26297 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
26299 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
26300 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
26301 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
26302 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
26304 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
26305 whether the server is hibernating.
26308 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
26309 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
26310 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26311 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26312 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26316 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
26317 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26318 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26319 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
26320 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
26323 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
26324 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26325 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
26326 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
26327 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
26328 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
26329 busy for more than 100 seconds.
26332 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
26333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26334 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
26335 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
26336 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
26337 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
26338 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
26339 creating actual system users.
26340 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
26341 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
26345 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
26346 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
26347 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
26348 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
26349 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
26350 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
26351 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
26352 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
26353 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
26354 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
26355 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
26356 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
26357 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
26358 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
26359 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
26361 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
26362 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
26363 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
26364 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
26365 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
26366 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
26367 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
26368 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
26369 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
26370 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
26371 existing torrc files.
26372 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
26375 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
26376 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
26377 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
26378 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
26379 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
26380 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
26381 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
26382 the win32 SYSTEM account.
26383 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
26384 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
26385 file descriptors available.
26386 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
26387 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
26388 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
26391 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
26392 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26393 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
26394 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
26396 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
26397 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
26398 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
26399 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
26400 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
26402 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
26403 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
26404 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
26405 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
26406 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
26407 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
26408 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
26409 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
26410 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
26411 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
26412 800kB/s of capacity.
26413 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
26416 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
26417 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26418 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
26419 need as much processor time.
26420 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
26421 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
26422 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
26423 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
26424 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
26425 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
26426 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
26427 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
26428 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
26429 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
26430 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
26431 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
26433 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
26434 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
26435 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
26436 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
26437 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
26438 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
26439 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
26442 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
26443 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
26444 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
26446 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
26447 style address, then we'd crash.
26448 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
26449 a dirserver is broken.
26450 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
26452 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
26453 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
26454 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
26456 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
26457 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
26458 name out of the warning/assert messages.
26459 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
26460 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
26461 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
26463 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
26464 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
26465 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
26467 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
26469 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
26470 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
26471 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
26472 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
26473 values at once couldn't work.
26474 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
26475 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
26476 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
26477 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
26478 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
26479 they can handle any number of routers.
26480 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
26481 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
26482 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
26483 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
26484 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
26485 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
26486 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
26487 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
26488 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
26491 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
26492 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
26493 - Make hibernation actually work.
26494 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
26495 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
26496 don't use the stream status code.
26499 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
26500 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
26501 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
26502 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
26503 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
26504 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
26505 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
26506 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
26507 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
26508 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
26509 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
26510 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
26513 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
26514 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
26515 win32 socket errors better.
26516 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
26517 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
26518 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
26519 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
26521 - Make unit tests work on win32.
26523 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
26524 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
26525 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
26526 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
26527 right after sending the begin cell.
26528 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
26529 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
26530 exit nodes too. Oops.
26531 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
26532 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
26533 the user would get no response.
26534 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
26535 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
26536 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
26538 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
26539 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
26540 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
26541 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
26542 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
26544 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
26545 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
26546 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
26547 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
26548 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
26549 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
26550 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
26551 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
26552 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
26553 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
26554 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
26556 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
26557 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
26558 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
26559 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
26560 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
26561 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
26562 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
26563 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
26564 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
26565 so we don't see those messages days later.
26566 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
26567 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
26569 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
26570 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
26571 they ran out of file descriptors.
26572 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
26573 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
26574 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
26575 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
26577 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
26578 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
26579 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
26580 the ones we find in directories.)
26581 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
26582 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
26583 if you don't want it open.
26584 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
26585 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
26586 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
26587 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
26588 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
26589 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
26591 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
26592 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
26594 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
26596 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
26597 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
26599 o Features (circuits and streams):
26600 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
26601 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
26602 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
26603 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
26604 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
26605 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
26606 the user knows which one it's talking about.
26607 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
26608 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
26609 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
26610 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
26611 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
26612 from Geoff Goodell.
26613 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
26615 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
26616 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
26617 to fill the last cell completely.
26618 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
26619 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
26621 o Features (bandwidth):
26622 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
26623 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
26624 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
26625 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
26626 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
26627 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
26628 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
26629 your billing cycle starts on.
26630 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
26631 hibernation properties by
26632 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
26633 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
26634 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
26635 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
26636 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
26638 o Features (directories):
26639 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
26640 nickname to its identity key.
26641 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
26642 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
26643 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
26644 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
26645 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
26647 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
26648 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
26650 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
26651 will be able to get a directory.
26652 - Http proxy support
26653 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
26654 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
26655 be routed through this host.
26656 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
26657 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
26658 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
26659 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
26660 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
26661 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
26663 o Features (packages and install):
26664 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
26665 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
26666 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
26667 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
26668 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
26669 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
26670 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
26671 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
26672 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
26673 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
26676 o Features (ui controller):
26677 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
26678 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
26679 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
26680 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
26681 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
26682 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
26683 with the control port.
26684 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
26685 use in authenticating to the control interface.
26686 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
26687 configuration to torrc.
26688 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
26689 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
26690 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
26692 o Features (config and command-line):
26693 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
26694 not on the command line.
26695 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
26697 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
26698 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
26699 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
26700 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
26701 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
26702 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
26703 - New log format in config:
26704 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
26705 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
26706 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
26707 from their dirserver.
26708 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
26710 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
26711 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
26712 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
26713 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
26714 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
26715 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
26716 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
26717 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
26718 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
26719 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
26720 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
26721 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
26722 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
26723 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
26724 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
26725 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
26726 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
26727 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
26728 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
26729 than once per minute.
26731 o Features (other):
26732 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
26733 get back to normal.)
26734 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
26735 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
26736 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
26737 log more informatively.
26738 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
26739 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
26740 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
26741 from each other, to hinder linkability.
26742 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
26743 them act more like real nodes.
26744 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
26745 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
26746 1024) file descriptors.
26747 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
26750 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
26752 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
26753 clients/servers with an open dirport.
26754 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
26755 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
26756 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
26757 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
26758 intermittent connections.
26759 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
26760 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
26762 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
26763 in reporting stats locally.
26764 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
26765 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
26766 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
26769 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
26771 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
26772 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
26773 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
26774 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
26775 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
26776 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
26777 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
26778 list to decide who's running.
26779 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
26780 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
26781 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
26782 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
26783 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
26784 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
26785 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
26786 for pointing out this bug.)
26787 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
26789 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
26790 don't put it into the client dns cache.
26791 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
26792 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
26793 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
26795 o Protocol changes:
26796 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
26797 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
26798 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
26799 hadn't heard of before.
26802 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
26803 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
26804 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
26805 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
26806 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
26807 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
26808 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
26809 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
26810 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
26811 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
26812 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
26813 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
26814 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
26815 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
26816 - Directory caching.
26817 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
26818 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
26819 directory they've pulled down.
26820 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
26821 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
26822 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
26823 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
26824 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
26825 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
26826 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
26828 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
26829 This isn't used yet.
26830 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
26831 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
26832 clients don't use this yet.)
26833 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
26834 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
26835 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
26836 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
26837 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
26838 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
26839 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
26840 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
26841 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
26842 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
26843 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
26844 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
26845 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
26846 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
26847 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
26848 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
26849 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
26850 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
26851 - File and name management:
26852 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
26853 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
26855 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
26856 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
26857 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
26858 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
26859 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
26860 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
26861 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
26863 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
26864 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
26865 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
26867 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
26868 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
26869 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
26870 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
26871 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
26872 - New docs in the tarball:
26874 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
26875 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
26876 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
26877 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
26878 know you might want to get it verified.
26879 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
26880 kazaa, gnutella ports.
26881 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
26882 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
26883 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
26884 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
26885 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
26886 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
26887 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
26889 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
26891 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
26892 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
26894 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
26895 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
26896 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
26899 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
26900 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
26901 ask them to resolve the host "".
26904 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
26905 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
26906 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
26909 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
26910 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
26911 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
26914 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
26915 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
26916 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
26917 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
26919 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
26920 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
26921 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
26923 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
26924 hidden service per 15-minute period.
26925 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
26926 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
26927 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
26928 o Fixes for security bugs:
26929 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
26930 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
26931 a trusted dirserver.
26933 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
26934 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
26935 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
26936 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
26937 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
26938 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
26939 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
26940 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
26941 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
26942 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
26944 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
26945 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
26946 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
26947 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
26948 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
26949 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
26951 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
26954 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
26955 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
26956 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
26957 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
26958 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
26959 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
26960 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
26961 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
26962 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
26963 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
26964 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
26965 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
26966 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
26967 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
26970 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
26971 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
26972 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
26973 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26976 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
26977 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
26978 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
26979 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
26980 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
26981 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
26982 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
26986 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
26988 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
26989 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
26990 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
26991 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
26992 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
26993 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
26994 if you decrypted them correctly.
26995 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
26996 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
26997 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
26998 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
26999 in-memory directories too.
27000 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
27001 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
27002 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
27003 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
27004 just close the circ.
27005 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
27006 - Better debugging for tls errors
27007 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
27008 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
27010 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
27011 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
27012 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
27013 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
27014 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
27015 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
27016 it tells you about the first error.
27017 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
27018 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
27019 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
27020 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
27021 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
27022 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
27023 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
27024 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
27025 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
27026 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
27028 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
27029 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
27032 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
27033 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
27035 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
27036 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
27037 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
27038 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
27039 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
27040 expect it to have a nickname.
27041 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
27042 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
27043 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
27044 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
27045 the dns farm to do it.
27046 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
27047 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
27049 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
27050 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
27051 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
27052 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
27053 but that aren't warnings
27056 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
27057 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
27061 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
27062 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
27063 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
27064 - include missing header fcntl.h
27065 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
27066 - deal with hardware word alignment
27067 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
27068 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
27069 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
27070 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
27071 by kill -USR1 currently.
27072 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
27073 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
27074 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
27077 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
27078 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
27079 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
27082 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
27084 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
27085 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
27086 - And fix a few endian issues.
27089 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
27091 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
27092 try that circuit again: try a new one.
27093 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
27094 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
27095 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
27096 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
27097 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
27098 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
27100 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
27101 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
27102 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
27104 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
27106 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
27107 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
27108 side isn't reading right then.
27109 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
27110 RecommendedVersions
27111 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
27112 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
27113 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
27116 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
27118 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
27119 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
27122 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
27126 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
27128 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
27129 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
27130 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
27131 connection is finished.
27132 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
27133 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
27134 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
27135 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
27136 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
27137 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
27138 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
27139 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
27140 rather than warn and continue.
27141 - Make --version work
27142 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
27145 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
27147 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
27148 knows it's working.
27149 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
27150 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
27152 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
27153 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
27154 so you can collect coredumps there.
27156 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
27157 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
27158 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
27159 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
27160 dns cache actually gets populated.
27161 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
27162 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
27163 end cell down it first.
27164 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
27165 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
27168 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
27170 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
27171 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
27173 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
27174 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
27175 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
27176 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
27177 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
27178 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
27180 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
27182 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
27183 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
27184 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
27185 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
27186 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
27187 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
27189 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
27190 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
27193 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
27195 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
27196 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
27197 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
27198 tor. It even has a man page.
27199 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
27200 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
27201 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
27202 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
27204 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
27206 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
27209 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
27211 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
27212 it, apt-getters. :)
27213 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
27214 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
27215 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
27216 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
27217 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
27218 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
27219 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
27220 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
27221 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
27222 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
27223 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
27225 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
27226 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
27229 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
27231 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
27232 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
27235 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
27237 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
27238 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
27239 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
27240 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
27241 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
27242 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
27243 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
27244 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
27245 logfile so you know it's working.
27246 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
27247 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
27250 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
27252 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
27253 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
27254 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
27257 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
27259 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
27260 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
27261 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
27264 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
27265 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
27266 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
27268 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
27269 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
27271 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
27272 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
27273 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
27275 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
27276 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
27280 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
27282 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
27283 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
27284 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
27287 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
27288 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
27289 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
27290 - Add port ranges to exit policies
27291 - Add a conservative default exit policy
27292 - Warn if you're running tor as root
27293 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
27294 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
27295 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
27296 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
27298 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
27301 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
27302 o Robustness and bugfixes:
27303 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
27304 really screw things up.
27305 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
27307 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
27308 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
27310 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
27311 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
27312 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
27313 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
27314 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
27315 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
27318 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
27321 - Change default loglevel to warn.
27322 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
27323 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
27325 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
27328 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
27329 o Robustness and bugfixes:
27330 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
27331 - to get ownership/permissions right
27332 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
27333 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
27334 pull down a directory again
27335 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
27336 causing server crashes
27337 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
27338 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
27339 - exit if bind() fails
27340 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
27341 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
27342 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
27343 - fix minor bias in PRNG
27344 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
27347 - Wrote the design document (woo)
27349 o Circuit building and exit policies:
27350 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
27352 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
27353 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
27354 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
27355 exists, rather than failing
27356 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
27357 which AP connections are standing by
27358 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
27359 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
27360 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
27362 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
27363 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
27366 - APPort is now called SocksPort
27367 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
27369 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
27370 hardcoded (for dirservers)
27371 - Reloads config on HUP
27372 - Usage info on -h or --help
27373 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
27375 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
27376 o General stability:
27377 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
27378 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
27379 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
27380 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
27381 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
27382 to take down the network when I approve a new router
27383 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
27386 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
27387 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
27389 o Autoconf improvements:
27390 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
27391 - Make install now works
27392 - create var/lib/tor on make install
27393 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
27394 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
27396 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
27397 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
27398 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
27399 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup