1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
6 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
7 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
8 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
9 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
10 congestion control fix detailed below.
12 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
13 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
14 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
15 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
16 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
17 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
18 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
20 o Major bugfixes (relay):
21 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
22 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
23 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
24 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
25 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
26 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
29 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
30 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
31 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
32 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
33 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
35 o Minor feature (authority):
36 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
38 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
39 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
41 o Minor features (geoip data):
42 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
43 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
45 o Minor features (relays):
46 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
47 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
48 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
49 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
52 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
53 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
54 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
56 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
57 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
58 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
59 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
61 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
62 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
63 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
67 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
68 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
69 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
70 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
73 o Major bugfixes (relay):
74 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
75 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
76 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
77 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
78 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
79 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
82 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
83 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
84 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
85 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
86 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
88 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
89 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
91 o Minor features (geoip data):
92 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
93 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
96 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
97 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
98 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
101 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
102 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
103 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
104 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
105 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
107 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
108 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
111 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
112 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
114 o Minor features (geoip data):
115 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
116 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
118 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
119 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
120 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
123 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
124 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
125 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
126 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
128 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
129 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
131 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
132 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
133 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
135 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
136 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
137 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
138 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
139 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
141 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
142 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
143 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
144 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
145 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
148 o Major bugfixes (relay):
149 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
150 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
152 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
153 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
155 o Minor features (geoip data):
156 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
157 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
160 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
161 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
162 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
163 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
166 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
167 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
169 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
170 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
171 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
172 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
174 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
175 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
176 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
177 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
178 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
180 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
181 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
182 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
183 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
184 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
186 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
187 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
188 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
189 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
190 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
193 o Major bugfixes (relay):
194 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
195 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
197 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
198 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
199 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
200 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
201 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
202 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
204 o Minor feature (metrics):
205 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
208 o Minor feature (performance):
209 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
210 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
211 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
213 o Minor feature (relay):
214 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
216 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
217 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
218 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
219 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
221 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
222 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
223 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
224 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
225 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
227 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
228 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
229 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
230 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
231 are currently opened and how many were created.
232 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
233 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
234 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
235 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
236 - Related to ticket 40194.
238 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
239 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
241 o Minor features (geoip data):
242 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
243 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
245 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
246 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
247 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
249 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
250 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
251 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
252 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
253 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
254 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
255 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
256 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
257 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
258 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
259 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
261 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
262 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
263 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
266 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
267 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
268 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
271 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
272 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
273 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
274 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
275 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
276 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
277 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
279 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
280 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
281 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
284 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
285 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
286 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
287 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
290 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
291 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
292 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
293 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
294 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
297 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
298 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
299 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
300 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
303 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
304 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
305 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
306 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
307 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
310 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
311 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
312 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
313 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
316 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
317 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
318 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
319 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
320 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
323 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
324 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
325 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
326 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
327 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
330 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
331 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
333 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
334 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
335 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
336 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
337 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
338 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
339 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
340 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
341 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
344 o Major bugfixes (relay):
345 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
346 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
347 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
348 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
349 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
350 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
351 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
353 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
354 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
355 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
356 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
357 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
360 o Minor features (dirauth):
361 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
362 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
363 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
364 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
365 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
366 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
367 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
368 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
371 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
372 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
374 o Minor features (geoip data):
375 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
376 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
378 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
379 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
380 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
381 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
382 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
383 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
384 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
386 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
387 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
388 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
389 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
390 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
392 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
393 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
394 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
395 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
398 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
399 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
400 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
401 stability or safety purposes.
403 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
404 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
405 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
407 o Major bugfixes (relay):
408 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
409 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
410 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
411 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
412 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
413 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
414 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
416 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
417 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
419 o Minor features (geoip data):
420 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
421 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
423 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
424 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
425 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
427 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
428 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
429 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
430 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
431 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
432 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
434 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
435 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
436 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
437 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
438 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
440 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
441 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
442 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
443 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
445 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
446 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
447 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
448 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
449 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
451 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
452 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
453 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
455 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
456 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
457 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
458 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
459 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
460 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
462 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
463 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
464 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
465 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
468 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
469 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
470 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
471 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
472 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
474 o Major bugfixes (relay):
475 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
476 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
477 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
478 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
479 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
480 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
481 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
483 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
484 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
486 o Minor features (geoip data):
487 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
488 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
490 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
491 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
492 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
494 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
495 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
496 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
497 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
498 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
499 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
501 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
502 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
503 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
504 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
505 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
507 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
508 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
509 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
510 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
512 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
513 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
514 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
515 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
516 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
518 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
519 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
520 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
522 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
523 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
524 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
525 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
526 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
527 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
529 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
530 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
531 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
532 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
535 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
536 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
537 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
538 should upgrade to this version.
540 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
541 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
542 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
543 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
544 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
545 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
547 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
548 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
550 o Minor features (geoip data):
551 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
552 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
554 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
555 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
556 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
557 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
559 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
560 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
561 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
562 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
563 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
564 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
565 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
566 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
567 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
569 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
570 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
571 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
574 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
575 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
576 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
577 including one massive new one: congestion control.
579 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
580 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
581 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
583 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
585 o Major features (congestion control):
586 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
587 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
589 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
590 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
591 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
592 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
594 o Major features (directory authority):
595 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
596 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
597 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
598 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
599 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
600 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
601 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
602 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
603 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
605 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
606 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
607 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
608 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
609 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
610 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
611 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
612 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
613 40363; implements proposal 333.
615 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
616 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
617 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
618 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
619 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
621 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
622 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
623 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
624 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
625 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
626 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
627 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
628 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
631 o Major bugfixes (client):
632 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
633 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
634 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
635 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
636 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
637 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
639 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
640 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
641 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
642 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
644 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
645 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
646 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
647 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
648 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
649 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
651 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
652 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
653 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
654 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
655 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
656 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
657 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
659 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
660 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
661 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
662 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
663 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
664 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
665 and not the DNS server itself.
666 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
667 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
668 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
669 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
670 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
671 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
672 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
674 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
675 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
676 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
677 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
680 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
681 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
682 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
683 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
685 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
686 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
688 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
689 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
690 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
693 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
694 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
695 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
696 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
698 o Minor features (compilation):
699 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
700 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
701 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
702 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
705 o Minor features (control port):
706 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
707 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
709 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
710 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
712 o Minor features (fuzzing):
713 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
714 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
715 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
717 o Minor features (geoip data):
718 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
719 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
721 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
722 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
723 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
724 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
725 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
726 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
727 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
729 o Minor features (portability):
730 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
731 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
734 o Minor features (testing configuration):
735 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
736 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
737 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
738 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
739 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
740 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
741 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
742 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
743 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
744 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
745 fix for ticket 40337.
746 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
747 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
748 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
750 o Minor features (testing):
751 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
752 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
755 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
756 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
757 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
759 o Minor bugfix (logging):
760 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
761 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
763 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
764 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
765 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
766 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfix (relay):
769 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
770 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
773 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
774 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
775 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
776 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
777 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
778 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
779 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
780 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
782 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
783 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
784 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
785 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
788 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
789 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
790 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
791 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
793 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
794 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
795 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
796 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
797 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
800 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
801 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
802 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
803 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
804 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
805 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
806 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
807 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
808 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
810 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
811 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
812 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
814 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
815 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
816 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
819 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
820 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
821 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
822 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
823 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
825 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
826 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
827 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
828 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
829 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
830 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
832 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
833 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
834 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
835 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
838 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
839 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
840 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
842 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
843 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
844 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
845 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
846 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
847 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
848 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
849 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
851 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
852 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
853 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
854 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
856 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
857 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
858 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
859 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
860 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
861 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
862 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
863 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
864 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
866 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
867 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
868 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
869 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
871 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
872 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
873 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
874 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
877 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
878 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
879 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
880 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
881 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
883 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
884 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
885 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
886 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
887 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
888 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
889 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
890 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
891 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
893 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
894 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
895 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
896 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
898 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
899 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
900 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
901 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
903 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
904 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
905 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
906 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
907 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
908 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
909 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
910 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
911 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
913 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
914 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
915 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
916 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
917 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
918 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
920 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
921 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
922 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
923 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
924 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
926 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
927 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
928 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
929 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
930 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
932 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
933 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
934 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
935 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
936 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
938 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
939 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
940 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
941 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
943 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
944 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
945 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
947 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
948 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
949 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
950 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
951 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
953 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
954 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
955 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
956 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
957 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
959 o Code simplification and refactoring:
960 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
961 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
962 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
963 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
966 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
967 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
969 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
970 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
971 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
972 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
973 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
974 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
977 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
980 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
981 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
982 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
984 o Documentation (man, relay):
985 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
986 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
988 o Testing (CI, chutney):
989 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
990 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
994 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
995 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
996 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
998 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
999 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1001 o Minor features (geoip data):
1002 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1003 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1005 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1006 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1007 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1009 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1010 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1011 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1014 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1015 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1016 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1019 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1020 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1021 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1022 See below for more details.
1024 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1025 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1026 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1027 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1028 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1030 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1031 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1032 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1035 o Minor features (compilation):
1036 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1037 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1038 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1039 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1042 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1043 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1045 o Minor features (geoip data):
1046 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1047 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1049 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1050 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1051 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1052 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1053 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1056 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1057 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1058 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1059 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1061 o Documentation (man, relay):
1062 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1063 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1066 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1067 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1068 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1071 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1072 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1073 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1074 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1075 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1076 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1077 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1079 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1080 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1083 o Minor features (testing):
1084 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1085 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1086 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1087 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1088 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1089 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1090 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1091 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1092 fix for ticket 40337.
1093 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1094 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1095 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1097 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1098 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1099 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1100 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1101 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1102 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1103 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1104 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1106 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1107 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1108 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1110 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1111 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1112 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1113 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1114 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1117 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1118 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1119 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1120 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1121 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1122 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1125 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1126 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1127 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1128 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1129 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1130 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1131 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1134 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1135 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1136 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1137 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1138 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1140 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1141 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1142 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1143 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1145 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1146 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1147 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1148 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1150 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1151 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1154 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1155 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1156 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1157 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1158 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1160 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1161 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1162 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1163 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1164 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1165 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1166 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1167 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1168 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1169 fix for ticket 40337.
1170 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1171 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1172 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1174 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1175 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1176 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1178 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1179 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1180 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1181 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1182 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1183 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1185 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1186 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1187 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1188 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1189 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1192 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1193 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1194 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1195 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1196 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1198 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1199 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1200 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1201 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1202 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1203 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1206 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1207 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1208 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1209 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1210 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1211 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1212 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1215 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1216 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1217 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1218 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1219 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1221 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1222 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1223 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1224 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1226 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1227 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1228 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1229 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1231 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1232 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1235 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1236 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1237 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1238 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1239 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1243 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1244 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1245 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1246 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1247 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1249 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1250 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1251 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1252 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1253 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1254 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1255 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1258 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1259 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1261 o Minor features (geoip data):
1262 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1263 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1265 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1266 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1267 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1269 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1270 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1271 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1273 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1274 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1275 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1277 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1278 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1279 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1280 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1282 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1283 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1284 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1285 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1286 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1287 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1288 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1291 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1292 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1293 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1294 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1295 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1297 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1298 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1299 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1300 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1301 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1302 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1303 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1306 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1307 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1309 o Minor features (geoip data):
1310 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1311 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1313 o Minor features (testing):
1314 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1315 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1317 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1318 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1319 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1321 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1322 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1323 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1325 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1326 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1327 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1328 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1329 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1330 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1331 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1333 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1334 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1335 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1338 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1339 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1340 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1341 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1342 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1344 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1345 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1346 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1347 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1348 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1349 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1350 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1353 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1354 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1356 o Minor features (geoip data):
1357 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1358 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1360 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1361 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1362 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1364 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1365 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1366 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1369 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1370 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1371 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1372 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1373 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1375 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1376 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1377 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1378 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1379 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1380 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1382 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1383 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1384 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1388 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1389 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1390 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1391 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1392 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1395 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1396 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1397 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1398 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1400 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1401 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1403 o Major bugfixes (security):
1404 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1405 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1406 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1407 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1408 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1409 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1411 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1412 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1413 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1414 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1415 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1416 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1417 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1418 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1420 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1421 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1422 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1423 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1424 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1425 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1426 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1427 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1428 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1429 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1430 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1431 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1432 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1433 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1434 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1436 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1437 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1438 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1439 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1442 o Major features (directory authority):
1443 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1444 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1445 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1446 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1448 o Major features (metrics):
1449 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1450 documents. This information is controlled with the
1451 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1452 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1453 328; closes ticket 40222.
1455 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1456 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1457 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1459 o Major features (statistics):
1460 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1461 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1462 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1464 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1465 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1466 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1467 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1468 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1469 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1470 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1471 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1472 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1473 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1474 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1475 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1476 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1477 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1478 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1479 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1480 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1481 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1482 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1483 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1486 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1487 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1488 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1489 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1491 o Minor features (bridge):
1492 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1493 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1494 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1496 o Minor features (build system):
1497 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1498 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1499 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1501 o Minor features (client):
1502 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1503 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1504 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1505 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1507 o Minor features (command line):
1508 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1509 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1512 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1513 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1514 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1515 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1516 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1517 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1518 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1519 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1520 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1521 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1522 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1524 o Minor features (compatibility):
1525 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1526 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1527 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1530 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1531 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1532 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1534 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1535 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1536 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1537 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1538 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1539 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1540 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1542 o Minor features (geoip data):
1543 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1544 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1546 o Minor features (logging):
1547 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1548 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1550 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1551 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1552 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1553 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1554 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1555 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1557 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1558 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1559 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1560 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1561 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1563 o Minor features (onion services):
1564 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1565 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1567 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1568 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1569 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1570 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1571 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1573 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1574 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1575 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1577 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1578 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1579 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1582 o Minor features (vote document):
1583 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1584 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1585 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1587 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1588 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1589 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1590 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1592 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1593 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1594 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1595 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1598 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1599 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1600 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1601 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1603 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1604 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1605 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1606 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1607 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1609 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1610 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1611 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1612 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1613 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1614 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1617 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1618 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1619 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1620 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1621 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1622 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1624 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1625 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1626 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1627 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1628 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1630 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1631 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1632 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1633 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1634 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1636 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1637 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1638 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1640 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1641 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1642 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1645 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1646 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1647 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1648 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1650 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1651 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1652 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1653 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1655 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1656 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1657 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1660 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1661 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1662 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1663 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1666 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1667 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1668 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1669 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1670 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1671 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1672 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1673 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1674 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1675 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1678 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1679 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1680 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1682 o Documentation (manual):
1683 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1685 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1686 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1687 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1688 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1690 o Removed features (relay):
1691 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1692 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1693 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1694 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1695 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1698 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1699 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1700 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1701 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1702 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1704 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1705 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1706 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1707 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1708 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1709 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1710 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1712 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1713 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1714 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1715 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1716 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1717 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1718 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1719 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1721 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1722 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1723 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1724 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1725 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1726 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1727 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1728 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1729 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1730 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1731 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1732 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1733 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1734 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1735 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1737 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1738 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1739 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1740 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1743 o Minor features (geoip data):
1744 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1745 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1747 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1748 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1749 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1750 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1751 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1752 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1755 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1756 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1757 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1761 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1762 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1763 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1764 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1765 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1767 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1768 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1769 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1771 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1772 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1773 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1774 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1775 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1776 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1777 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1779 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1780 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1781 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1782 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1783 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1784 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1785 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1786 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1788 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1789 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1790 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1791 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1792 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1793 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1794 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1795 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1796 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1797 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1798 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1799 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1800 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1801 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1802 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1804 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1805 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1806 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1807 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1810 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1811 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1812 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1814 o Minor features (geoip data):
1815 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1816 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1818 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1819 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1820 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1821 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1823 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1824 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1825 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1828 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1829 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1830 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1831 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1832 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1834 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1835 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1836 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1837 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1838 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1839 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1840 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1842 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1843 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1844 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1845 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1846 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1847 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1848 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1849 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1851 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1852 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1853 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1854 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1855 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1856 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1857 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1858 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1859 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1860 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1861 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1862 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1863 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1864 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1865 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1867 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1868 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1869 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1871 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1872 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1873 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1874 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1877 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1878 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1879 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1881 o Minor features (geoip data):
1882 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1883 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1886 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1887 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1888 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1890 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1891 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1892 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1893 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1894 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1896 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1897 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1898 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1900 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1901 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1902 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1904 o Minor features (geoip data):
1905 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1906 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1908 o Minor features (onion services):
1909 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1910 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1911 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1913 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1914 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1915 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1916 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1918 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1919 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1920 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1921 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1923 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1924 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1925 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1926 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1928 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1929 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1930 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1932 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1933 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1934 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1935 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1937 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1938 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1939 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1940 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1942 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1943 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1944 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1948 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1949 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1950 in earlier versions of Tor.
1952 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1953 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1954 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1955 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1956 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1957 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1958 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1959 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1960 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1963 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1964 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1967 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1968 compatibility issue.
1970 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1971 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1972 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1973 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1974 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1975 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1976 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1977 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1978 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1981 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1982 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1983 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1984 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1985 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1986 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1987 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1988 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1991 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1992 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1993 Closes ticket 40309.
1996 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1997 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1998 in earlier versions of Tor.
2000 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2001 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2002 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2003 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2004 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2005 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2006 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2007 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2008 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2011 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2012 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2015 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2016 compatibility issue.
2018 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2019 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2020 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2021 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2022 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2023 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2024 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2025 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2026 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2029 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2030 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2031 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2032 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2033 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2034 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2035 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2036 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2039 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2040 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2041 Closes ticket 40309.
2044 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2045 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2048 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2049 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2050 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2051 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2052 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2053 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2054 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2055 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2056 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2059 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2060 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2063 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2064 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2066 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2067 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2068 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2069 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2070 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2071 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2072 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2073 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2074 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2077 o Minor features (geoip data):
2078 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2079 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2080 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2081 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2082 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2083 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2084 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2087 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2088 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2089 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2090 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2091 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2093 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2094 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2095 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2097 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2098 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2099 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2100 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2101 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2103 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2104 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2105 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2107 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2108 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2109 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2111 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2112 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2113 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2115 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2116 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2117 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2118 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2119 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2120 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2121 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2122 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2124 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2125 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2126 Closes ticket 40309.
2129 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2130 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2131 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2132 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2133 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2134 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2135 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2136 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2137 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2138 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2140 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2141 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2142 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2143 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2144 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2145 smaller features and bugfixes.
2147 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2148 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2150 o Major features (build):
2151 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2152 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2153 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2154 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2155 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2157 o Major features (metrics):
2158 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2159 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2160 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2161 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2162 information and security considerations.
2164 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2165 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2166 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2167 Closes ticket 33233.
2168 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2169 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2170 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2171 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2172 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2173 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2174 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2175 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2176 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2177 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2178 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2179 Closes ticket 34067.
2181 o Major features (tracing):
2182 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2183 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2184 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2185 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2186 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2188 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2189 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2190 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2191 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2192 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2194 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2195 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2196 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2197 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2198 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2199 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2200 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2202 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2203 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2204 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2205 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2206 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2207 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2209 o Minor features (address discovery):
2210 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2211 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2212 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2213 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2215 o Minor features (admin tools):
2216 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2217 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2218 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2221 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2222 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2223 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2224 Closes ticket 40245.
2226 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2227 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2228 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2229 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2230 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2231 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2233 o Minor features (build):
2234 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2235 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2236 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2237 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2238 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2240 o Minor features (configuration):
2241 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2242 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2243 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2244 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2245 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2246 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2248 o Minor features (control port):
2249 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2250 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2251 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2252 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2254 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2255 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2256 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2259 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2260 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2261 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2262 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2263 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2264 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2265 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2267 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2268 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2269 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2271 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2272 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2273 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2274 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2275 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2276 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2277 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2278 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2279 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2280 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2281 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2283 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2284 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2285 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2286 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2288 o Minor features (documentation):
2289 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2290 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2291 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2293 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2294 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2295 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2296 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2298 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2299 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2300 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2302 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2303 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2304 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2306 o Minor features (logging):
2307 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2308 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2309 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2310 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2311 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2312 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2314 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2315 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2316 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2317 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2319 o Minor features (onion services):
2320 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2321 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2322 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2324 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2325 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2326 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2327 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2328 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2329 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2331 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2332 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2333 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2334 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2335 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2337 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2338 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2339 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2340 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2341 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2342 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2343 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2345 o Minor features (relay):
2346 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2347 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2348 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2349 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2350 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2351 Closes ticket 34137.
2353 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2354 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2355 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2358 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2359 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2360 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2361 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2362 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2363 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2364 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2365 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2366 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2368 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2369 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2371 o Minor features (safety):
2372 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2373 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2376 o Minor features (specification update):
2377 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2378 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2379 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2381 o Minor features (state management):
2382 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2383 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2384 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2385 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2386 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2388 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2389 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2390 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2391 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2392 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2394 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2395 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2396 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2398 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2399 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2400 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2401 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2402 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2404 o Minor features (testing):
2405 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2406 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2408 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2409 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2410 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2411 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2413 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2414 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2415 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2416 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2417 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2418 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2419 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2420 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2421 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2423 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2424 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2425 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2426 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2427 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2428 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2430 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2431 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2432 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2433 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2434 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2435 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2438 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2439 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2440 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2441 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2442 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2443 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2446 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2447 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2448 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2449 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2450 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2452 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2453 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2454 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2455 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2457 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2458 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2459 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2460 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2461 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2462 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2463 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2464 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2466 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2467 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2468 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2469 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2470 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2471 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2472 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2473 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2476 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2477 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2478 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2479 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2481 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2482 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2483 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2484 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2485 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2486 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2487 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2489 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2490 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2491 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2492 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2493 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2494 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2496 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2497 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2498 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2500 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2501 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2502 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2503 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2504 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2505 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2506 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2507 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2509 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2510 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2511 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2512 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2513 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2514 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2515 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2516 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2517 Closes ticket 34200.
2518 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2519 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2520 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2521 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2522 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2523 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2524 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2526 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2527 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2528 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2529 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2530 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2531 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2534 o Deprecated features:
2535 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2536 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2537 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2540 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2541 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2544 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2545 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2546 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2547 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2549 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2550 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2552 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2553 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2554 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2555 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2556 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2560 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2561 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2563 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2564 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2565 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2567 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2568 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2569 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2570 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2571 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2573 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2574 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2575 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2576 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2577 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2579 o Documentation (manual page):
2580 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2581 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2582 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2583 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2585 o Documentation (tracing):
2586 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2587 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2589 o Removed features (controller):
2590 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2591 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2594 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2595 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2596 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2597 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2598 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2600 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2601 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2602 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2603 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2604 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2607 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2608 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2609 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2610 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2613 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2614 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2615 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2616 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2618 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2619 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2620 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2621 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2622 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2624 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2625 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2626 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2627 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2628 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2629 weasel for diagnosing this.
2631 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2632 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2633 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2634 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2635 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2636 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2637 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2640 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2641 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2642 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2644 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2645 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2646 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2647 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2649 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2650 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2651 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2652 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2653 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2654 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2655 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2657 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2658 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2661 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2662 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2663 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2664 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2665 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2667 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2668 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2670 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2671 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2672 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2673 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2674 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2677 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2678 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2679 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2680 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2681 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2683 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2684 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2685 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2686 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2689 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2690 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2691 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2692 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2694 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2695 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2696 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2697 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2698 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2700 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2701 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2702 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2703 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2704 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2705 weasel for diagnosing this.
2707 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2708 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2709 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2710 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2711 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2712 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2713 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2715 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2716 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2717 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2719 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2720 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2721 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2722 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2724 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2725 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2726 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2727 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2729 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2730 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2731 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2732 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2733 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2734 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2735 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2737 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2738 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2741 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2742 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2743 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2744 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2745 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2747 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2748 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2749 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2750 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2751 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2754 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2755 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2756 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2757 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2758 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2760 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2761 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2762 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2763 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2766 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2767 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2768 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2769 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2771 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2772 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2773 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2774 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2775 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2777 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2778 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2779 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2780 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2781 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2782 weasel for diagnosing this.
2784 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2785 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2786 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2787 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2788 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2789 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2790 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2792 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2793 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2794 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2796 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2797 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2798 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2799 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2801 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2802 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2803 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2804 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2806 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2807 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2808 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2809 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2811 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2812 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2815 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2816 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2817 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2818 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2819 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2820 intended for a different relay.
2822 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2823 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2824 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2825 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2826 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2827 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2828 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2830 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2831 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2832 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2833 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2834 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2835 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2836 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2837 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2838 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2839 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2840 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2842 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2843 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2844 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2845 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2846 closes ticket 40133.
2848 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2849 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2850 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2852 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2853 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2854 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2856 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2857 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2858 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2859 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2860 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2861 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2863 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2864 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2865 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2867 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2868 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2869 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2872 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2873 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2874 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2875 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2878 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2879 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2880 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2881 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2882 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2884 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2885 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2886 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2889 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2890 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2891 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2892 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2894 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2895 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2896 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2897 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2898 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2899 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2900 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2902 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2903 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2904 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2905 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2906 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2909 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2910 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2911 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2912 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2913 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2914 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2916 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2917 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2918 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2919 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2920 closes ticket 40133.
2922 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2923 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2924 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2925 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2927 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2928 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2929 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2931 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2932 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2933 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2935 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2936 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2937 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2938 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2939 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2941 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2942 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2943 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2945 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2946 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2947 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2948 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2949 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2950 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2951 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2953 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2954 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2955 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2958 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2959 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2960 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2961 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2962 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2963 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2966 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2967 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2968 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2969 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2971 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2972 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2973 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2974 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2976 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2977 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2978 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2980 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2981 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2984 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2985 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2986 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2987 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2988 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2989 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2990 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2993 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2994 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2995 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2996 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2997 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2999 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3000 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3001 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3002 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3004 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3005 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3006 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3007 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3008 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3009 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3010 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3012 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3013 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3014 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3015 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3016 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3019 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3020 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3021 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3022 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3023 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3024 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3026 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3027 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3028 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3029 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3031 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3032 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3033 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3034 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3035 closes ticket 40133.
3037 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3038 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3039 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3040 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3042 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3043 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3044 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3046 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3047 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3048 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3050 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3051 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3052 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3053 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3054 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3056 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3057 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3058 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3060 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3061 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3062 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3063 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3064 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3065 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3066 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3068 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3069 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3070 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3073 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3074 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3075 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3076 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3077 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3078 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3081 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3082 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3083 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3084 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3086 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3087 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3088 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3089 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3091 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3092 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3093 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3095 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3096 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3099 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3100 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3101 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3102 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3103 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3104 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3105 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3107 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3108 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3109 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3110 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3111 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3113 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3114 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3115 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3117 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3118 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3120 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3121 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3122 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3123 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3124 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3125 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3126 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3127 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3128 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3129 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3131 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3132 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3133 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3134 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3136 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3137 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3138 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3139 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3140 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3141 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3142 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3144 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3146 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3147 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3148 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3149 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3151 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3152 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3153 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3154 Closes ticket 32709.
3156 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3157 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3158 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3159 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3160 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3163 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3164 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3165 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3166 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3167 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3168 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3170 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3171 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3172 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3173 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3174 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3176 o Minor features (security):
3177 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3178 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3179 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3180 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3181 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3183 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3184 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3185 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3186 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3187 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3190 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3191 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3192 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3193 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3194 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3195 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3196 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3198 o Minor features (code safety):
3199 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3200 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3201 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3202 Resolves issue 33788.
3204 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3205 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3206 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3207 Resolves ticket 32143.
3209 o Minor features (control port):
3210 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3211 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3212 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3213 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3214 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3215 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3216 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3218 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3219 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3220 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3222 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3223 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3224 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3225 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3226 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3227 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3229 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3230 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3231 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3232 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3233 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3234 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3235 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3236 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3238 o Minor features (directory authority):
3239 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3240 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3241 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3242 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3243 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3245 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3246 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3247 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3248 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3250 o Minor features (directory):
3251 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3252 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3253 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3256 o Minor features (entry guards):
3257 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3258 Closes ticket 40001.
3260 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3261 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3262 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3264 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3265 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3266 Closes ticket 33901.
3268 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3269 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3270 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3271 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3272 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3273 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3274 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3276 o Minor features (logging):
3277 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3278 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3280 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3281 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3282 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3283 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3286 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3287 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3288 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3290 o Minor features (python scripts):
3291 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3292 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3293 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3294 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3296 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3297 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3298 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3299 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3300 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3301 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3302 up from ticket 33316.
3303 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3304 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3305 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3307 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3308 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3309 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3310 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3312 o Minor features (windows):
3313 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3314 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3316 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3317 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3318 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3319 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3321 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3322 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3323 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3324 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3325 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3327 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3328 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3329 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3330 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3331 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3332 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3334 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3335 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3336 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3337 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3340 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3341 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3342 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3343 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3345 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3346 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3347 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3349 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3350 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3351 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3352 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3353 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3354 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3355 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3356 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3357 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3358 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3360 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3361 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3362 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3363 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3364 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3366 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3367 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3368 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3369 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3372 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3373 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3374 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3375 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3376 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3377 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3378 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3380 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3381 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3382 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3384 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3385 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3386 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3388 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3389 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3390 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3392 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3393 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3394 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3397 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3398 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3399 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3402 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3403 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3404 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3405 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3406 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3407 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3408 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3410 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3411 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3412 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3413 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3415 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3416 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3417 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3418 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3419 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3422 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3423 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3424 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3425 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3426 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3427 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3430 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3431 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3432 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3435 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3436 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3437 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3438 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3440 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3441 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3442 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3443 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3444 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3447 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3448 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3449 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3451 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3452 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3453 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3454 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3455 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3456 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3457 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3458 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3459 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3460 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3461 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3462 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3464 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3465 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3466 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3467 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3469 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3470 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3471 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3472 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3475 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3476 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3477 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3478 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3479 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3480 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3483 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3484 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3485 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3486 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3487 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3488 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3489 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3490 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3491 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3492 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3493 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3494 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3495 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3498 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3499 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3500 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3501 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3502 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3503 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3504 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3505 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3507 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3508 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3510 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3511 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3512 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3513 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3514 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3515 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3516 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3517 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3518 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3519 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3520 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3521 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3523 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3524 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3527 o Documentation (manual page):
3528 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3529 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3530 Google Season of Docs.
3531 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3532 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3533 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3534 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3535 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3536 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3537 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3538 Closes ticket 33778.
3541 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3542 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3543 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3545 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3546 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3547 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3548 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3549 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3550 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3551 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3554 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3555 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3556 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3557 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3560 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3561 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3562 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3563 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3564 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3565 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3567 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3568 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3569 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3570 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3571 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3572 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3574 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3575 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3576 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3578 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3579 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3580 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3581 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3584 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3585 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3586 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3587 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3590 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3591 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3592 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3593 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3594 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3596 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3597 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3598 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3600 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3601 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3602 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3603 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3604 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3607 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3608 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3609 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3610 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3611 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3612 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3614 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3615 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3616 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3617 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3619 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3620 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3621 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3622 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3625 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3626 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3627 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3628 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3629 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3630 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3631 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3632 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3636 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3637 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3638 several that affect usability and portability.
3640 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3641 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3642 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3643 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3644 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3645 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3646 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3649 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3650 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3651 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3652 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3655 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3656 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3657 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3658 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3659 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3660 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3662 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3663 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3664 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3665 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3666 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3668 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3669 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3670 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3671 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3673 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3674 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3675 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3676 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3677 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3678 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3680 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3681 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3682 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3684 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3685 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3686 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3687 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3690 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3691 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3692 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3693 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3696 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3697 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3698 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3699 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3700 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3701 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3704 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3705 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3706 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3708 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3709 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3710 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3711 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3713 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3714 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3715 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3716 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3717 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3720 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3721 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3722 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3723 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3724 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3725 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3727 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3728 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3729 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3730 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3731 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3733 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3734 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3735 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3736 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3738 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3739 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3740 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3741 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3743 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3744 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3745 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3746 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3749 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3750 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3751 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3752 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3753 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3754 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3755 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3756 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3760 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3761 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3762 some affecting usability.
3764 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3765 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3766 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3767 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3768 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3769 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3770 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3773 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3774 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3775 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3776 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3779 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3780 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3781 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3783 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3784 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3785 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3786 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3789 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3790 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3791 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3793 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3794 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3795 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3796 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3798 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3799 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3800 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3801 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3803 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3804 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3805 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3807 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3808 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3809 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3810 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3811 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3813 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3814 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3815 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3817 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3818 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3819 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3820 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3822 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3823 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3827 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3828 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3829 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3830 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3831 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3832 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3835 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3836 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3837 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3838 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3839 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3841 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3842 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3843 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3846 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
3847 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3849 o New system requirements:
3850 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
3851 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
3852 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
3854 o Major features (build system):
3855 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
3856 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
3857 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
3858 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
3859 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
3861 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
3862 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
3863 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
3864 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
3865 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3867 o Major features (onion services):
3868 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
3869 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
3870 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
3871 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
3872 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
3873 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
3874 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
3876 o Major features (proxy):
3877 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
3878 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
3879 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
3880 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
3881 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
3882 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3884 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
3885 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3886 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3887 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3888 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3889 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3890 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3891 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3892 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3894 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
3895 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3896 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3897 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3898 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3900 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3901 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3902 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3903 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3904 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3906 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3907 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3908 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3909 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3910 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3911 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3913 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3914 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
3915 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
3916 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3918 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3919 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
3920 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
3921 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
3922 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3923 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3925 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3926 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3927 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3929 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3930 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3931 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3932 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3933 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3935 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3936 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
3937 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
3938 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
3940 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3941 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3942 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3943 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3944 Closes ticket 31241.
3946 o Minor features (configuration):
3947 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3948 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3950 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3951 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3952 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3953 Implements ticket 32404.
3955 o Minor features (configure, build system):
3956 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3957 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3959 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3960 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
3961 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3962 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3963 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3964 Closes ticket 33075.
3966 o Minor features (controller):
3967 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3968 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3969 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3971 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3972 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3973 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3974 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3976 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3977 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3978 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3981 o Minor features (developer tools):
3982 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3983 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3984 Closes ticket 32772.
3985 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3986 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3987 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3988 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3989 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3990 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3991 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3992 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3994 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3995 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3996 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3997 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3999 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4000 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4001 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4002 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4004 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4005 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4006 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4007 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4009 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4010 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4011 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4012 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4014 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4015 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4016 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4017 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4018 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4019 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4020 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4021 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4023 o Minor features (git scripts):
4024 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4025 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4026 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4027 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4028 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4029 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4030 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4031 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4032 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4033 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4034 Closes ticket 32216.
4035 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4036 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4037 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4038 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4040 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4041 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4042 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4043 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4044 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4045 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4047 o Minor features (portability, android):
4048 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4049 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4050 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4052 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4053 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4054 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4055 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4056 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4057 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4058 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4059 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4060 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4061 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4063 o Minor features (release tools):
4064 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4065 Closes ticket 32704.
4067 o Minor features (testing):
4068 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4069 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4070 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4071 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4072 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4073 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4074 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4075 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4076 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4077 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4078 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4080 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4081 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4082 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4084 o Minor features (usability):
4085 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4086 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4087 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4089 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4090 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4091 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4092 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4095 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4096 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4097 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4099 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4100 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4101 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4103 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4104 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4105 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4106 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4107 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4108 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4111 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4112 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4113 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4114 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4115 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4116 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4117 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4118 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4119 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4120 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4121 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4122 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4123 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4124 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4125 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4126 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4127 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4128 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4130 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4131 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4134 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4135 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4136 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4137 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4139 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4140 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4141 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4144 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4145 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4146 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4148 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4149 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4150 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4151 Closes ticket 32213.
4152 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4153 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4154 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4156 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4157 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4158 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4159 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4160 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4163 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4164 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4166 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4167 Closes ticket 32216.
4169 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4170 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4171 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4172 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4173 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4174 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4176 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4177 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4178 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4179 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4180 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4181 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4182 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4183 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4185 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4186 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4187 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4188 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4190 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4191 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4192 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4193 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4195 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4196 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4197 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4198 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4199 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4200 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4201 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4202 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4205 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4206 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4207 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4208 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4210 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4211 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4212 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4213 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4214 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4215 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4216 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4218 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4219 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4220 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4221 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4222 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4224 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4225 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4226 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4227 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4230 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4231 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4232 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4233 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4234 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4236 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4237 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4238 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4239 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4241 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4242 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4243 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4244 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4246 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4247 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4248 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4250 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4251 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4252 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4253 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4255 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4256 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4257 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4258 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4259 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4260 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4261 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4263 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4264 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4265 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4266 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4267 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4269 o Deprecated features:
4270 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4271 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4272 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4276 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4277 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4278 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4279 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4280 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4281 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4282 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4283 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4285 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4286 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4289 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4290 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4291 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4292 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4293 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4294 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4296 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4297 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4298 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4299 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4300 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4303 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4304 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4305 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4306 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4307 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4309 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4310 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4312 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4313 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4314 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4315 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4316 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4319 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4320 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4321 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4323 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4324 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4325 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4326 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4327 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4328 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4329 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4330 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4331 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4332 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4333 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4334 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4335 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4336 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4337 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4338 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4339 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4341 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4342 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4344 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4345 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4346 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4348 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4349 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4350 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4351 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4352 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4353 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4355 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4356 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4357 Closes ticket 32163.
4358 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4360 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4362 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4363 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4364 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4366 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4367 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4368 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4369 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4370 Closes ticket 32304.
4371 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4372 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4373 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4374 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4375 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4378 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4379 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4381 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4384 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4385 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4386 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4387 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4388 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4389 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4390 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4391 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4393 o Documentation (manpage):
4394 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4395 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4396 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4397 Google Season of Docs.
4398 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4399 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4400 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4401 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4402 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4403 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4405 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4407 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4408 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4409 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4411 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4412 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4413 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4415 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4416 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4417 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4418 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4419 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4420 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4421 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4422 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4425 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4426 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4429 o Testing (Travis CI):
4430 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4431 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4432 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4434 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4435 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4436 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4437 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4438 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4441 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4442 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4443 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4444 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4445 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4446 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4447 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4448 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4449 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4450 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4451 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4452 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4454 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4455 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4456 as soon as packages are available.
4458 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4459 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4460 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4461 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4462 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4463 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4464 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4465 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4466 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4468 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4469 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4470 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4471 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4472 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4474 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4475 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4476 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4477 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4478 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4480 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4481 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4482 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4483 Closes ticket 33075.
4485 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4486 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4487 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4489 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4490 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4491 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4492 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4493 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4496 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4497 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4498 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4499 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4502 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4503 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4504 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4505 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4507 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4508 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4509 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4510 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4512 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4513 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4514 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4515 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4516 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4519 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4520 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4521 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4522 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4523 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4524 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4525 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4526 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4527 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4528 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4529 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4530 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4532 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4533 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4534 as soon as packages are available.
4536 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4537 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4538 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4539 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4540 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4541 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4542 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4543 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4544 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4546 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4547 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4548 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4549 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4550 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4552 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4553 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4554 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4556 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4557 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4558 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4559 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4560 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4563 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4564 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4565 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4566 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4569 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4570 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4571 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4572 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4574 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4575 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4576 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4577 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4579 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4580 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4581 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4582 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4583 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4586 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4587 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4588 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4589 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4590 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4591 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4592 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4593 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4594 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4595 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4596 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4599 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4600 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4601 as soon as packages are available.
4603 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4604 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4605 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4606 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4607 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4608 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4609 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4610 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4611 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4613 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4614 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4615 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4616 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4617 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4618 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4619 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4620 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4623 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4624 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4625 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4626 Closes ticket 33075.
4628 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4629 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4630 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4632 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4633 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4634 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4635 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4636 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4638 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4639 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4640 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4641 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4642 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4645 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4646 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4647 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4648 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4651 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4652 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4653 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4654 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4656 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4657 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4658 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4659 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4660 Closes ticket 32629.
4661 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4662 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4663 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4665 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4666 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4668 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4669 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4670 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4671 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4673 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4674 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4675 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4676 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4679 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4680 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4681 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4682 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4683 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4684 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4686 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4687 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4688 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4689 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4690 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4691 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4692 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4693 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4695 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4696 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4697 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4699 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4700 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4701 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4702 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4704 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4705 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4706 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4707 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4709 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4710 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4711 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4712 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4713 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4714 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4717 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4718 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4719 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4721 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4722 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4723 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4724 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4725 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4726 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4727 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4728 Closes ticket 32629.
4730 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4731 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4734 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4735 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4736 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4737 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4738 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4739 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4741 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4742 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4743 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4744 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4745 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4746 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4747 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4748 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4750 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4751 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4752 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4755 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4756 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4757 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4758 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4760 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4761 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4762 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4764 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4765 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4766 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4767 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4768 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4769 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4770 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4771 Closes ticket 32629.
4773 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4774 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4777 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
4778 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
4779 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
4780 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
4781 bugs present in previous series.
4783 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4784 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4785 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4786 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4788 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
4789 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4791 o Major features (directory authorities):
4792 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4793 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4794 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4796 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4797 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4798 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4799 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4800 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4801 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4804 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4805 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4806 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4807 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4808 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4809 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4812 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4813 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4814 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4815 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4816 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4817 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4818 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4819 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4820 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4822 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4823 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4824 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4825 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4827 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4828 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4829 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4830 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4831 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4832 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4833 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4834 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4836 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4837 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4838 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4839 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4840 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4842 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4843 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4844 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4845 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4846 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4849 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4850 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4851 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4852 Closes ticket 29669.
4854 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4855 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4856 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4857 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4858 Closes ticket 31779.
4860 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4861 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4862 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4863 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4864 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4865 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4866 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4867 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4868 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4869 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4870 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4871 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4872 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4873 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4874 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4876 o Minor features (build system):
4877 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4878 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4879 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4880 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4881 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4883 o Minor features (compilation):
4884 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4885 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4886 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4888 o Minor features (configuration):
4889 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4890 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4891 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4892 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4894 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4895 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4896 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4897 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4898 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4899 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4900 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4902 o Minor features (debugging):
4903 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4904 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4905 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4906 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4908 o Minor features (geoip):
4909 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4910 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4912 o Minor features (git hooks):
4913 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4914 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4915 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4916 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4917 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4919 o Minor features (git scripts):
4920 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4921 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4922 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4923 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4924 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4925 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4926 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4927 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4928 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4929 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4930 Closes ticket 31314.
4931 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4932 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4933 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4934 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4935 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4936 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4937 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4938 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4939 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4941 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4942 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4943 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4946 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4947 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4948 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4950 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4951 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4952 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4953 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4954 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4955 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4956 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4958 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4959 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4960 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4962 o Minor features (onion service):
4963 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4964 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4965 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4966 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4968 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4969 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4970 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4973 o Minor features (stem tests):
4974 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4975 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4978 o Minor features (testing):
4979 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4980 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4981 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4982 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4983 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4984 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4985 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4986 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4987 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4988 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4989 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4990 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4991 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4992 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4993 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4995 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4996 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4997 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4998 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5000 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5001 Closes ticket 31859.
5002 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5003 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5005 o Minor features (token bucket):
5006 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5007 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5009 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5010 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5011 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5013 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5014 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5015 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5016 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5017 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5018 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5019 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5020 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5023 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5024 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5025 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5026 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5028 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5029 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5030 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5031 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5032 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5033 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5034 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5036 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5037 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5038 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5039 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5040 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5041 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5043 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5044 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5045 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5046 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5047 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5048 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5050 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5051 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5052 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5054 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5055 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5056 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5057 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5058 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5060 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5061 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5062 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5064 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5065 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5066 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5067 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5069 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5070 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5071 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5072 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5074 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5075 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5076 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5077 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5079 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5080 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5081 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5082 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5083 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5084 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5085 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5086 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5087 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5088 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5090 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5091 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5092 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5093 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5094 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5096 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5097 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5098 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5101 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5102 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5103 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5105 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5106 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5107 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5108 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5109 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5110 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5111 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5112 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5113 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5114 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5115 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5116 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5119 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5120 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5121 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5122 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5125 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5126 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5127 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5128 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5130 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5131 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5132 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5133 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5134 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5135 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5136 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5137 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5138 Closes ticket 31678.
5140 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5141 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5142 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5143 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5144 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5146 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5147 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5148 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5149 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5150 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5151 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5152 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5153 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5154 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5157 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5158 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5159 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5160 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5161 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5162 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5163 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5164 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5165 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5166 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5167 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5168 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5169 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5171 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5172 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5173 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5175 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5176 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5177 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5178 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5180 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5181 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5182 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5183 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5184 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5187 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5188 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5189 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5192 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5193 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5194 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5197 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5198 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5199 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5201 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5202 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5203 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5204 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5205 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5206 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5208 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5209 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5210 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5211 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5214 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5215 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5216 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5217 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5218 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5220 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5221 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5222 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5223 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5224 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5225 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5227 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5228 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5229 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5230 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5232 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5233 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5234 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5236 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5237 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5238 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5240 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5241 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5242 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5243 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5245 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5246 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5247 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5248 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5249 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5251 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5252 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5253 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5254 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5256 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5257 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5258 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5259 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5260 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5263 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5264 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5265 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5266 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5269 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5270 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5271 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5273 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5274 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5275 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5276 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5277 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5278 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5281 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5282 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5283 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5285 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5286 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5287 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5290 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5291 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5292 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5293 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5294 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5295 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5297 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5298 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5299 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5300 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5301 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5303 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5304 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5305 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5306 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5307 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5308 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5309 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5310 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5311 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5312 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5314 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5315 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5316 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5317 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5318 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5319 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5320 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5322 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5326 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5327 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5328 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5329 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5330 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5331 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5332 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5333 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5335 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5336 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5337 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5338 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5339 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5340 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5341 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5342 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5343 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5344 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5345 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5346 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5347 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5350 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5351 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5352 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5353 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5354 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5355 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5357 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5361 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5362 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5363 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5364 Closes ticket 32500.
5365 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5366 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5367 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5368 Closes ticket 30967.
5370 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5371 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5372 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5373 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5374 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5375 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5376 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5377 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5378 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5379 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5380 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5381 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5382 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5383 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5384 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5385 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5387 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5388 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5389 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5390 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5391 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5392 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5393 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5394 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5395 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5396 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5398 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5399 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5400 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5402 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5403 Closes ticket 30806.
5404 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5405 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5408 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5409 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5410 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5412 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5413 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5414 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5416 o Testing (continuous integration):
5417 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5418 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5419 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5420 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5421 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5422 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5423 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5424 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5425 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5428 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5429 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5430 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5431 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5433 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5434 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5435 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5436 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5438 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5439 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5440 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5441 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5443 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5444 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5445 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5446 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5447 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5448 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5449 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5450 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5452 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5453 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5454 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5455 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5456 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5458 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5459 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5460 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5461 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5462 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5465 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5466 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5467 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5468 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5470 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5471 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5472 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5474 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5475 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5476 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5478 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5479 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5480 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5481 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5482 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5483 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5485 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5486 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5487 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5488 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5490 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5491 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5492 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5493 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5494 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5495 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5496 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5497 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5498 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5499 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5502 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5503 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5504 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5505 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5506 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5507 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5508 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5509 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5510 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5512 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5513 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5514 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5515 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5517 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5518 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5519 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5520 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5521 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5524 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5525 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5526 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5528 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5529 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5530 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5532 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5533 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5534 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5536 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5537 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5538 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5539 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5541 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5542 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5543 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5544 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5545 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5548 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5549 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5551 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5552 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5553 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5556 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5557 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5558 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5560 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5561 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5562 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5563 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5565 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5566 Closes ticket 31859.
5567 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5568 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5570 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5571 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5572 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5573 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5574 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5575 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5576 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5577 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5578 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5579 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5581 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5582 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5583 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5584 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5585 Closes ticket 32500.
5588 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5589 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5590 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5591 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5592 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5594 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5595 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5596 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5597 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5599 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5600 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5603 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5604 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5605 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5606 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5607 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5608 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5609 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5610 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5611 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5612 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5613 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5615 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5616 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5617 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5618 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5619 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5620 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5622 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5623 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5624 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5625 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5626 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5629 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5630 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5631 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5632 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5633 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5635 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5636 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5637 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5638 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5641 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5642 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5643 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5644 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5645 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5646 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5647 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5648 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5650 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5651 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5652 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5653 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5654 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5656 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5657 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5658 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5659 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5660 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5663 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5664 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5665 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5667 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5668 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5669 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5672 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5673 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5674 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5676 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5677 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5678 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5679 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5681 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5682 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5683 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5684 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5685 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5687 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5689 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5691 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5692 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5693 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5696 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5697 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5698 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5700 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5701 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5702 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5704 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5705 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5706 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5708 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5709 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5710 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5713 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5714 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5715 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5716 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5717 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5718 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5720 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5721 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5722 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5723 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5724 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5726 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5727 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5728 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5732 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5733 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5735 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5736 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5737 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5738 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5740 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5741 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5742 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5743 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5745 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5746 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5747 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5748 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5750 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5751 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5752 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5753 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5755 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5756 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5757 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5758 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5759 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5760 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5761 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5763 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5764 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5765 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5766 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5768 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5769 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5770 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5771 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5773 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5774 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5775 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5778 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5779 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5780 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5781 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5782 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5783 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5784 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5786 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5787 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5788 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5789 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5792 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5793 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5794 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5795 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5796 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5798 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5799 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5800 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5801 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5802 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5804 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5805 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5806 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5809 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5810 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5811 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5812 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5813 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5815 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5816 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5817 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5818 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5821 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5822 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5823 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5824 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5827 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5828 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5829 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5832 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5833 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5834 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5835 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5837 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5838 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5839 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5840 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5842 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5843 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5844 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5845 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5847 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5848 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5849 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5850 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5853 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5854 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5855 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5856 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5857 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5858 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5861 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5862 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5863 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5865 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5866 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5867 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5869 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5870 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5871 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5872 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5874 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5875 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5876 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5878 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5879 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5880 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5881 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5882 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5884 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5885 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5886 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5889 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5890 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5891 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5892 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5893 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5894 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5895 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5896 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5897 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5898 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5900 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5901 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5902 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5903 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5905 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5906 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5907 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5908 Resolves issue 29702.
5910 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5911 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5913 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5914 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5915 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5916 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5919 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5920 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5921 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5922 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5924 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5925 Closes ticket 31859.
5926 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5927 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5929 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5930 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5931 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5932 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5933 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5934 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5935 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5936 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5937 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5938 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5940 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5941 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5942 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5943 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5944 Closes ticket 32500.
5947 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5948 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5949 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5952 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5953 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5956 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5957 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5958 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5959 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5960 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5961 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5962 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5963 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5964 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5965 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5966 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5968 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5969 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5970 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5971 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5972 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5973 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5975 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5976 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5977 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5978 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5979 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5980 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5982 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5983 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5984 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5985 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5986 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5989 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5990 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5991 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5992 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5993 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5995 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5996 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5997 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5998 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6001 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6002 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6003 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6004 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6005 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6007 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6008 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6009 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6010 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6011 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6014 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6015 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6016 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6017 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6018 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6019 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6020 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6021 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6023 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6024 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6025 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6026 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6027 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6030 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6031 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6032 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6034 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6035 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6036 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6039 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6040 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6041 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6042 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6044 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6045 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6046 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6049 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6050 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6051 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6053 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6054 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6055 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6056 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6058 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6059 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6060 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6061 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6062 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6064 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6065 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6066 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6068 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6069 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6070 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6071 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6073 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6074 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6075 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6078 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6079 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6080 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6081 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6082 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6083 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6084 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6085 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6086 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6087 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6088 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6089 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6090 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6093 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6094 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6095 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6096 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6097 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6099 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6100 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6101 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6103 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6104 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6105 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6107 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6108 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6109 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6111 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6112 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6113 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6116 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6117 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6118 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6120 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6121 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6122 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6123 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6124 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6125 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6127 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6128 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6129 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6130 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6131 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6133 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6134 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6135 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6138 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6139 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6140 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6143 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6144 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6147 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6148 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6149 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6152 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6153 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6154 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6156 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6157 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6158 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6159 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6161 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6162 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6163 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6164 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6166 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6167 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6168 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6169 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6170 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6171 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6172 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6174 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6175 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6176 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6177 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6179 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6180 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6181 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6182 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6184 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6185 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6186 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6189 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6190 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6191 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6192 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6193 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6194 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6195 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6197 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6198 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6199 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6200 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6203 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6204 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6205 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6206 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6207 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6209 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6210 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6211 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6213 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6214 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6215 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6216 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6217 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6218 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6219 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6220 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6221 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6222 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6223 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6225 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6226 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6227 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6228 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6229 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6231 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6232 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6233 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6236 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6237 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6238 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6239 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6240 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6242 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6243 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6244 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6245 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6247 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6248 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6249 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6250 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6251 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6254 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6255 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6256 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6259 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6260 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6261 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6262 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6264 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6265 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6266 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6267 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6269 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6270 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6271 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6273 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6274 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6275 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6276 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6278 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6279 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6280 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6281 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6284 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6285 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6286 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6287 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6288 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6289 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6292 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6293 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6294 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6295 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6297 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6298 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6299 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6301 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6302 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6303 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6305 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6306 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6307 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6308 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6309 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6310 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6311 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6313 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6314 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6315 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6318 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6319 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6320 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6321 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6322 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6323 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6324 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6325 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6327 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6328 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6329 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6330 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6331 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6332 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6335 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6336 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6337 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6338 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6339 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6341 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6342 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6343 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6344 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6345 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6346 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6347 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6348 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6350 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6351 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6352 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6355 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6356 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6357 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6358 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6359 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6360 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6361 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6362 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6363 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6364 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6366 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6367 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6368 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6369 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6370 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6371 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6373 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6374 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6375 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6376 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6378 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6379 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6380 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6381 Resolves issue 29702.
6383 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6384 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6386 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6387 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6388 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6389 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6392 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6393 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6394 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6395 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6397 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6398 Closes ticket 31859.
6399 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6400 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6402 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6403 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6404 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6405 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6406 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6407 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6408 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6409 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6410 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6411 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6413 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6414 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6415 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6416 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6417 Closes ticket 32500.
6420 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6421 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6422 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6423 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6426 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6427 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6428 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6429 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6430 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6431 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6432 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6433 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6434 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6436 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6437 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6438 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6441 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6442 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6443 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6445 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6446 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6447 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6448 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6449 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6451 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6452 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6453 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6455 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6456 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6457 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6458 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6460 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6461 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6462 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6463 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6466 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6467 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6468 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6469 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6470 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6472 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6473 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6474 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6477 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6478 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6479 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6481 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6482 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6483 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6484 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6485 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6486 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6488 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6489 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6490 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6491 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6492 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6493 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6494 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6495 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6496 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6497 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6499 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6500 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6501 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6502 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6505 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6506 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6507 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6508 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6509 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6510 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6511 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6513 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6514 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6515 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6516 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6518 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6519 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6521 o Directory authority changes:
6522 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6525 o Major features (circuit padding):
6526 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6527 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6528 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6529 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6530 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6531 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6532 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6533 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6534 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6536 o Major features (code organization):
6537 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6538 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6539 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6540 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6543 o Major features (controller protocol):
6544 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6545 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6546 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6547 Closes ticket 30091.
6549 o Major features (flow control):
6550 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6551 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6552 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6553 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6554 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6555 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6556 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6558 o Major features (performance):
6559 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6560 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6561 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6563 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6564 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6565 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6566 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6567 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6568 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6569 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6570 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6571 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6573 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6574 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6575 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6576 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6577 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6578 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6579 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6580 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6581 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6582 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6583 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6585 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6586 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6587 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6589 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6590 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6591 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6592 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6593 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6595 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6596 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6597 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6598 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6599 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6602 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6603 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6604 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6605 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6606 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6608 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6609 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6610 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6611 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6614 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6615 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6616 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6617 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6618 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6619 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6622 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6623 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6624 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6625 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6627 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6628 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6630 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6631 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6632 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6633 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6634 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6635 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6636 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6638 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6639 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6640 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6642 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6643 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6644 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6645 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6646 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6648 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6649 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6651 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6653 o Minor features (controller):
6654 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6655 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6656 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6658 o Minor features (debugging):
6659 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6660 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6661 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6662 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6664 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6665 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6666 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6667 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6668 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6669 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6670 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6671 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6672 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6673 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6675 o Minor features (developer tools):
6676 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6677 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6678 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6679 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6680 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6682 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6683 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6685 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6686 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6688 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6689 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6690 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6691 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6692 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6694 o Minor features (geoip):
6695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6696 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6697 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6698 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6700 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6701 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6702 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6704 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6705 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6706 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6707 addresses. Implements 26992.
6709 o Minor features (logging):
6710 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6711 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6712 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6713 Closes ticket 30686.
6715 o Minor features (maintenance):
6716 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6717 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6718 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6720 o Minor features (modularity):
6721 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6722 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6724 o Minor features (performance):
6725 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
6726 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
6727 Closes ticket 28837.
6729 o Minor features (testing):
6730 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
6731 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
6732 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
6733 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
6735 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
6736 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
6737 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
6738 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
6739 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
6740 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
6741 Implements ticket 29732.
6742 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
6743 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
6745 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
6746 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
6748 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
6749 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
6750 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
6751 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
6752 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6753 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6755 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
6756 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
6757 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
6758 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6760 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6761 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6762 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6764 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6765 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
6766 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6767 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
6768 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
6769 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
6770 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6771 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
6772 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
6773 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6774 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
6775 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6776 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6777 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
6778 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6779 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
6780 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
6781 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6783 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6784 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6785 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6786 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6787 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6789 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6790 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6791 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6792 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6793 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6794 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6796 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6797 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6798 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
6801 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6802 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6803 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
6806 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6807 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6808 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6810 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
6811 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6812 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6813 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6815 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6816 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6817 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6818 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6819 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6820 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6821 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6823 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6824 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
6825 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
6826 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
6827 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6829 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6830 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6831 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6832 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6834 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6835 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
6836 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
6839 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6840 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6841 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6842 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6843 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6844 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6846 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
6847 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6848 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6850 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6851 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
6852 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6853 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
6854 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
6855 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
6857 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
6858 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6860 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6861 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6862 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6863 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6864 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6865 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
6866 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
6869 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6870 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6871 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6873 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6874 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6877 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
6878 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6879 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6880 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6882 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6883 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6884 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6885 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6886 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
6887 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
6888 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
6889 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
6891 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
6892 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
6893 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6894 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
6895 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
6896 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
6897 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6899 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
6900 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
6901 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
6902 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
6903 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
6904 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6906 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
6907 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6908 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6909 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6912 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6913 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
6914 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
6915 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
6916 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6918 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6919 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
6920 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6922 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6923 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6924 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6925 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6926 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6927 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6930 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
6931 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
6932 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6935 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6936 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6937 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6938 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6940 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6941 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6942 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6943 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6944 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6947 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6948 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6949 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6951 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6952 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6953 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6954 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6955 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6957 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6958 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6959 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6960 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6961 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6962 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6963 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6964 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6965 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6966 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6967 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6968 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6969 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6971 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6972 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6973 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6974 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6975 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6977 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6978 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6979 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6980 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6981 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6982 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6983 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6984 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6985 Resolves issue 28816.
6986 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6987 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6988 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6989 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6990 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6991 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6992 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6993 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6994 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6995 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6996 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6997 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6998 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6999 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7000 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7001 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7002 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7003 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7004 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7005 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7006 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7007 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7008 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7009 Closes ticket 29894.
7010 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7011 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7012 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7013 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7016 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7017 Closes ticket 30630.
7018 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7019 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7023 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7024 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7025 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7026 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7030 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7031 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7032 Resolves issue 29702.
7034 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7035 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7036 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7037 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7038 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7039 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7040 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7041 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7042 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7043 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7044 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7047 o Testing (chutney):
7048 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7049 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7050 Closes ticket 27251.
7052 o Testing (continuous integration):
7053 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7054 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7055 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7056 Closes ticket 30694.
7059 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7060 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7061 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7062 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7063 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7064 long-term maintainability.
7066 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7067 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7068 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7069 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7071 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7072 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7074 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7075 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7076 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7077 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7078 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7079 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7081 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7082 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7084 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7085 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7088 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7089 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7090 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7091 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7092 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7093 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7094 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7095 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7096 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7099 o Major features (circuit padding):
7100 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7101 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7102 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7103 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7104 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7105 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7106 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7107 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7110 o Major features (refactoring):
7111 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7112 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7113 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7114 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7117 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7118 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7119 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7120 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7121 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7122 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7123 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7124 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7126 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7127 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7128 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7129 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7130 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7132 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7133 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7134 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7135 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7136 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7137 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7139 o Minor features (address selection):
7140 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7141 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7142 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7143 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7144 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7145 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7146 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7148 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7149 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7150 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7151 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7152 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7154 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7155 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7156 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7159 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7160 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7161 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7162 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7163 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7166 o Minor features (compilation):
7167 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7168 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7169 Patches from "Mangix".
7171 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7172 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7173 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7175 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7177 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7178 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7179 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7181 o Minor features (controller):
7182 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7183 Implements ticket 28843.
7185 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7186 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7187 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7188 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7189 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7190 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7191 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7193 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7194 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7195 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7197 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7198 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7199 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7202 o Minor features (directory authority):
7203 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7204 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7205 Closes ticket 26698.
7206 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7207 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7208 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7209 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7212 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7213 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7214 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7215 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7216 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7217 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7218 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7220 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7221 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7222 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7223 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7224 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7225 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7226 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7228 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7229 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7230 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7232 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7233 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7234 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7235 Closes ticket 28518.
7237 o Minor features (geoip):
7238 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7239 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7241 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7242 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7243 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7244 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7246 o Minor features (IPv6):
7247 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7248 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7249 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7250 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7251 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7252 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7253 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7254 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7255 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7256 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7258 o Minor features (log messages):
7259 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7260 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7263 o Minor features (memory usage):
7264 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7265 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7266 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7267 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7268 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7270 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7271 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7272 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7273 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7275 o Minor features (parsing):
7276 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7277 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7278 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7280 o Minor features (performance):
7281 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7282 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7283 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7284 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7286 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7287 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7288 Closes ticket 28852.
7289 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7290 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7291 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7292 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7293 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7294 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7296 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7297 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7298 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7299 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7300 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7302 o Minor features (process management):
7303 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7304 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7305 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7306 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7307 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7309 o Minor features (relay):
7310 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7311 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7312 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7314 o Minor features (required protocols):
7315 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7316 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7317 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7318 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7319 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7320 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7321 297; closes ticket 27735.
7323 o Minor features (testing):
7324 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7326 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7327 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7328 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7329 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7332 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7333 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7334 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7335 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7336 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7337 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7338 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7339 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7340 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7342 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7343 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7344 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7345 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7347 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7348 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7349 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7350 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7351 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7353 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7354 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7355 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7357 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7358 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7359 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7360 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7362 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7363 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7364 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7367 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7368 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7369 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7370 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7371 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7374 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7375 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7376 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7377 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7378 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7379 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7381 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7382 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7383 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7385 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7386 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7387 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7388 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7390 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7391 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7392 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7393 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7394 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7396 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7397 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7398 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7399 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7401 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7402 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7403 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7404 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7405 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7406 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7407 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7409 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7410 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7411 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7412 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7415 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7416 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7417 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7418 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7419 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7420 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7421 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7422 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7423 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7424 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7425 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7426 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7427 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7428 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7429 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7430 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7431 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7432 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7433 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7434 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7435 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7436 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7438 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7439 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7440 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7441 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7442 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7443 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7445 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7446 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7447 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7448 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7449 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7451 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7452 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7453 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7454 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7456 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7457 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7458 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7459 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7460 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7461 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7463 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7464 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7465 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7467 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7468 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7469 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7471 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7472 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7473 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7474 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7476 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7477 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7478 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7479 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7481 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7482 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7483 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7484 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7485 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7487 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7488 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7489 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7491 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7492 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7493 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7494 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7495 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7498 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7499 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7500 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7501 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7502 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7503 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7504 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7506 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7507 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7508 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7511 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7512 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7513 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7514 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7515 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7516 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7518 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7519 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7520 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7521 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7522 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7523 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7524 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7525 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7526 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7527 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7528 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7530 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7531 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7532 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7533 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7535 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7536 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7537 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7538 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7539 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7540 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7541 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7542 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7544 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7545 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7546 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7547 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7548 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7550 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7551 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7552 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7553 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7554 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7555 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7557 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7558 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7559 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7560 Resolves issue 28816.
7561 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7562 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7563 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7564 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7565 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7567 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7568 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7569 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7570 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7571 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7572 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7573 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7574 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7578 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7579 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7580 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7581 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7582 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7583 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7584 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7585 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7586 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7588 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7591 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7592 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7593 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7594 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7595 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7596 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7597 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7598 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7601 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7603 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7604 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7606 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7607 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7608 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7611 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7612 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7614 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7615 Resolves ticket 28006.
7616 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7617 Resolves ticket 28012.
7618 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7619 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7620 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7621 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7625 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7626 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7627 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7630 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7631 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7632 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7634 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7635 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7636 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7637 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7638 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7639 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7640 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7641 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7643 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7644 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7645 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7646 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7647 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7649 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7650 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7651 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7652 Patches from "Mangix".
7654 o Minor features (geoip):
7655 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7656 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7658 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7659 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7662 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7663 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7664 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7665 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7666 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7667 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7669 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7670 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7671 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7672 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7675 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7676 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7677 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7678 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7680 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7681 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7682 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7685 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7686 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7687 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7688 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7690 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7691 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7692 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7693 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7695 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7696 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7697 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7698 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7699 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7700 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7702 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7703 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7704 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7705 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7706 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7708 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7709 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7710 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7711 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7712 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7714 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7715 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7716 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7718 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7719 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7720 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7722 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7723 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7724 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7725 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7727 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7728 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7729 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7731 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7732 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7733 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7734 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7735 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7738 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7739 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7740 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7741 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7742 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7745 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7746 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7747 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7748 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7749 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7751 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7752 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7753 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7754 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7755 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7756 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7757 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7758 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7760 o Minor features (geoip):
7761 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7762 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7764 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7765 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7766 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7767 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7769 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7770 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7771 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7772 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7773 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7776 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7777 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7778 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7779 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7781 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7782 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7783 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7784 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7786 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7787 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7788 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7789 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7790 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7791 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7792 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7793 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7795 o Minor features (geoip):
7796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7797 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7799 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7800 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7801 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7802 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7804 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7805 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7806 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7807 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7808 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7811 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
7812 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7813 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
7814 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
7815 to this version, or to a later series.
7817 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
7818 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
7819 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
7820 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
7821 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
7822 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7824 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7825 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7826 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7827 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7828 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7831 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7832 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7833 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7834 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7836 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7837 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7838 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7839 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7840 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7841 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7842 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7843 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7845 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7846 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7847 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7848 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7850 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7851 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7852 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7853 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7854 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7856 o Minor features (geoip):
7857 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7858 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7860 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7861 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7862 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7863 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7864 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7865 Closes ticket 28973.
7867 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7868 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7869 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7870 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7873 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7874 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7877 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7878 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7879 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7881 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7882 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7883 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7884 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7886 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7887 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7888 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7889 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7891 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7892 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7893 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7894 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7895 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7896 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7899 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7900 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7901 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7904 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7905 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7906 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7907 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7908 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7910 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7911 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7912 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7913 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7914 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7916 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7917 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7918 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7919 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7920 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7921 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7923 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7924 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7925 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7928 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7929 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7930 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7932 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7933 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7934 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7936 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7937 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7938 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7941 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7942 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7943 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7944 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7945 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7946 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7947 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7948 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7950 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7951 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7952 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7953 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7955 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7956 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7957 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7958 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7959 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7960 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7961 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7962 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7963 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7964 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7966 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7967 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7968 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7969 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7970 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7971 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7973 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7974 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7975 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7976 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7977 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7979 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7980 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7981 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7984 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7985 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7986 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7987 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7990 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7991 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7992 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7995 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7996 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7997 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7998 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7999 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8002 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8003 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8004 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8005 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8006 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8007 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8008 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8010 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8011 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8012 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8015 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8016 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8017 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8018 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8019 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8022 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8023 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8024 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8025 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8026 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8028 o Minor features (geoip):
8029 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8030 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8032 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8033 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8034 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8035 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8036 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8037 Closes ticket 28973.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8040 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8041 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8042 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8044 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8045 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8046 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8047 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8048 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8051 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8052 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8053 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8054 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8056 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8057 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8058 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8060 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8061 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8062 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8063 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8065 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8066 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8067 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8068 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8069 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8070 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8073 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8074 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8075 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8077 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8078 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8079 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8080 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8081 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8083 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8084 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8085 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8086 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8087 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8088 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8090 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8091 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8092 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8093 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8095 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8096 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8097 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8100 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8101 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8102 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8103 affecting directory caches.
8105 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8106 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8107 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8108 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8109 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8110 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8111 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8112 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8114 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8115 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8116 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8117 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8118 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8119 so it will recognize them.
8121 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8122 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8123 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8124 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8125 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8126 with the latest stable release.)
8128 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8129 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8131 o Major features (bootstrap):
8132 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8133 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8134 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8135 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8137 o Major features (new code layout):
8138 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8139 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8140 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8141 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8142 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8143 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8144 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8146 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8147 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8148 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8150 o Major features (onion services v3):
8151 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8152 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8153 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8154 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8155 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8156 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8157 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8158 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8159 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8160 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8161 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8162 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8163 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8164 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8165 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8166 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8167 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8168 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8170 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8171 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8172 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8173 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8174 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8175 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8177 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8178 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8179 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8180 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8181 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8182 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8183 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8185 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8186 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8187 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8188 (if present), and restart Tor.
8190 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8191 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8192 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8193 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8194 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8195 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8196 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8197 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8199 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8200 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8201 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8203 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8204 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8205 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8206 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8207 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8208 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8210 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8211 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8212 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8213 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8216 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8217 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8218 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8219 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8220 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8222 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8223 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8224 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8225 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8226 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8228 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8229 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8230 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8231 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8232 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8233 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8235 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8236 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8237 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8238 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8239 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8242 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8243 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8244 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8245 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8246 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8247 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8249 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8250 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8251 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8252 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8253 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8255 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8256 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8257 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8258 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8259 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8260 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8262 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8263 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8264 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8265 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8267 o Minor features (admin tools):
8268 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8269 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8272 o Minor features (build):
8273 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8274 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8275 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8276 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8278 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8279 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8280 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8281 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8282 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8284 o Minor features (code layout):
8285 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8286 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8287 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8288 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8291 o Minor features (compilation):
8292 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8293 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8294 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8295 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8296 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8297 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8300 o Minor features (config):
8301 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8304 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8305 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8307 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8308 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8309 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8310 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8311 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8312 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8313 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8315 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8316 Implements ticket 27252.
8317 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8318 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8319 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8320 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8321 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8322 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8323 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8324 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8325 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8327 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8328 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8329 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8331 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8332 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8334 o Minor features (controller):
8335 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8336 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8337 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8338 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8339 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8340 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8341 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8342 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8344 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8345 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8346 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8347 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8349 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8350 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8351 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8352 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8354 o Minor features (development):
8355 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8356 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8358 o Minor features (directory authority):
8359 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8360 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8361 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8362 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8364 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8365 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8368 o Minor features (embedding API):
8369 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8370 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8371 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8372 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8373 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8374 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8377 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8378 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8379 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8380 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8381 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8383 o Minor features (geoip):
8384 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8385 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8387 o Minor features (memory management):
8388 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8389 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8392 o Minor features (memory usage):
8393 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8394 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8395 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8397 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8398 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8399 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8400 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8401 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8402 Closes ticket 28973.
8404 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8405 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8406 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8408 o Minor features (performance):
8409 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8410 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8411 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8412 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8413 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8414 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8415 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8416 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8417 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8418 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8420 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8421 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8422 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8423 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8425 o Minor features (testing):
8426 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8427 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8429 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8430 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8431 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8433 o Minor features (UI):
8434 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8435 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8436 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8437 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8438 Closes ticket 26703.
8440 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8441 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8442 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8443 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8444 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8446 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8447 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8448 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8449 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8450 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8453 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8454 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8455 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8456 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8458 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8459 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8460 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8461 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8462 - Use time_t for all values in
8463 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8464 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8465 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8467 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8468 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8469 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8470 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8471 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8474 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8475 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8476 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8477 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8478 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8479 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8481 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8482 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8483 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8484 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8486 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8487 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8488 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8491 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8492 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8493 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8494 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8496 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8497 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8498 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8501 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8502 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8503 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8504 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8505 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8507 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8508 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8509 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8510 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8511 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8514 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8515 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8516 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8517 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8518 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8519 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8520 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8521 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8522 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8523 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8524 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8525 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8526 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8528 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8529 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8530 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8532 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8533 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8534 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8535 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8536 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8539 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8540 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8541 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8542 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8543 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8545 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8546 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8547 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8549 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8550 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8551 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8552 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8553 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8554 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8557 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8558 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8559 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8562 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8563 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8564 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8565 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8566 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8568 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8569 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8570 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8573 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8574 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8575 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8577 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8578 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8579 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8580 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8581 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8582 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8584 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8585 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8586 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8587 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8588 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8590 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8591 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8592 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8593 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8594 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8596 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8597 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8598 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8600 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8601 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8602 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8603 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8606 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8607 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8608 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8609 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8610 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8611 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8612 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8613 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8614 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8616 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8617 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8619 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8620 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8621 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8622 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8623 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8624 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8625 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8626 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8627 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8628 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8629 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8631 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8632 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8633 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8634 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8636 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8637 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8638 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8639 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8640 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8642 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8643 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8644 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8645 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8647 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8648 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8649 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8652 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8653 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8655 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8656 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8657 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8658 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8659 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8660 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8661 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8662 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8663 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8664 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8666 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8667 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8668 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8669 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8670 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8672 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8673 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8674 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8675 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8677 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8678 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8679 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8680 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8681 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8682 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8683 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8684 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8685 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8686 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8688 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8689 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8690 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8691 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8692 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8693 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8694 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8695 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8696 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8698 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8699 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8700 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8701 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8702 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8703 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8704 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8705 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8706 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8707 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8708 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8709 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8710 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8711 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8712 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8714 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8715 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8716 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8717 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8718 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8719 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8720 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8721 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8723 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8724 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8725 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8726 reported by Keifer Bly.
8728 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8729 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8730 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8732 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
8733 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
8734 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
8735 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
8736 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
8737 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
8738 Closes ticket 27814.
8739 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
8740 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
8741 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
8742 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
8743 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
8744 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
8745 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
8746 Closes ticket 27799.
8747 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
8748 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
8749 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
8750 directory within the top-level src directory.
8751 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
8752 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
8753 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
8754 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
8755 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
8756 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
8757 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
8758 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
8759 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
8760 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
8761 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
8762 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
8763 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
8764 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
8765 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
8766 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
8767 Closes ticket 21349.
8768 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
8769 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
8770 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
8771 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
8772 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
8773 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
8774 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
8776 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
8777 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
8778 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
8781 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
8782 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
8783 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
8784 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
8785 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
8786 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
8787 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
8788 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
8789 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
8792 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
8793 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
8794 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
8795 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
8796 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
8797 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
8798 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
8799 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
8800 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
8801 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
8802 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
8803 Closes ticket 26367.
8806 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8807 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8809 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8810 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8811 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8812 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8813 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8814 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8815 Closes ticket 19566.
8817 o Documentation (onion services):
8818 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
8819 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
8820 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8821 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8822 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8823 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8824 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8825 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8828 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
8829 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8830 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8831 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
8832 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
8834 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8835 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8836 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8838 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8839 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8840 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8841 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8842 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8844 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8845 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8846 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8847 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8848 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8851 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8852 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8853 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8854 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8856 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8857 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8858 Implements ticket 27252.
8859 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8860 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8861 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8862 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8863 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8864 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8865 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8867 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8868 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8869 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8870 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8872 o Minor features (geoip):
8873 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8874 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8876 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8877 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8878 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8879 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8880 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8882 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8883 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8884 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8885 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8886 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8889 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8890 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8891 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8895 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8896 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8897 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8898 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8900 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8901 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8902 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8904 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8905 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8906 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8908 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8909 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8910 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8911 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8914 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8915 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8917 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8918 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8919 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8922 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8923 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8924 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8926 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8927 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8928 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8931 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8932 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8933 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8934 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8935 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8937 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8938 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8939 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8940 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8941 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8942 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8944 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8945 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8946 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8949 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8950 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8951 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8952 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8953 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8954 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8955 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8956 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8958 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8959 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8960 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8961 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8963 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8964 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8965 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8966 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8967 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8969 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8970 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8971 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8972 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8973 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8974 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8976 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8977 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8978 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8979 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8980 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8981 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8983 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8984 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8985 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8986 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8989 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8990 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8991 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8992 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8993 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8996 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8997 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8999 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9000 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9001 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9002 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9004 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9005 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9007 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9008 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9009 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9010 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9012 o Minor features (geoip):
9013 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9014 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9016 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9017 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9018 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9019 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9021 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9022 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9023 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9024 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9025 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9026 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9027 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9028 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9031 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9032 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9033 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9034 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9036 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9037 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9038 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9039 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9041 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9042 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9043 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9044 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9046 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9047 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9048 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9049 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9050 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9052 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9053 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9054 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9057 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9058 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9059 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9060 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9061 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9063 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9064 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9065 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9068 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9069 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9070 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9071 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9073 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9074 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9075 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9077 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9078 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9079 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9082 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9083 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9084 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9085 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9086 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9088 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9089 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9090 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9093 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9094 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9096 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9097 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9098 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9099 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9101 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9102 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9104 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9105 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9106 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9107 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9109 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9110 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9113 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9114 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9115 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9116 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9118 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9119 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9120 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9121 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9123 o Minor features (geoip):
9124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9125 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9128 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9129 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9130 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9131 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9132 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9133 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9135 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9136 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9137 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9138 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9139 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9140 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9141 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9142 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9145 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9146 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9147 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9148 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9150 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9151 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9152 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9153 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9155 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9156 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9157 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9158 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9159 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9161 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9162 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9163 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9164 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9165 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9167 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9168 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9169 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9172 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9173 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9174 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9175 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9176 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9178 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9179 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9180 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9183 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9184 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9185 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9188 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9189 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9190 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9193 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9194 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9196 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9197 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9198 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9199 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9201 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9202 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9203 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9204 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9206 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9207 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9208 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9210 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9211 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9212 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9213 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9214 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9215 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9216 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9219 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9220 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9221 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9222 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9223 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9225 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9226 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9227 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9228 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9229 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9231 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9232 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9233 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9236 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9237 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9239 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9240 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9241 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9242 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9244 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9245 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9246 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9247 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9249 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9250 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9251 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9253 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9254 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9255 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9256 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9258 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9259 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9262 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9263 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9264 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9265 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9267 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9268 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9269 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9270 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9272 o Minor features (geoip):
9273 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9274 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9276 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9277 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9278 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9279 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9280 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9281 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9282 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9284 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9285 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9286 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9287 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9288 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9289 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9290 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9291 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9294 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9295 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9296 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9297 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9299 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9300 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9301 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9302 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9304 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9305 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9306 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9307 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9308 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9310 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9311 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9312 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9313 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9314 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9316 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9317 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9318 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9321 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9322 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9323 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9324 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9327 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9328 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9329 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9330 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9332 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9333 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9334 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9337 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9338 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9339 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9342 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9343 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9344 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9347 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9348 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9349 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9350 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9353 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9354 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9357 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9358 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9360 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9361 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9362 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9363 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9364 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9365 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9366 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9368 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9369 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9370 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9371 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9372 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9374 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9375 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9376 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9377 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9379 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9380 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9381 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9383 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9384 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9385 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9386 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9387 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9388 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9389 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9392 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9393 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9394 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9395 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9396 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9398 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9399 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9400 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9401 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9402 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9404 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9405 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9406 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9409 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9410 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9411 compilation and portability fixes.
9413 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9414 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9415 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9416 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9417 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9418 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9419 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9420 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9422 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9423 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9425 o New system requirements:
9426 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9427 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9428 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9429 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9431 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9432 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9433 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9434 To disable the module, the configure option
9435 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9436 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9438 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9439 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9440 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9441 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9442 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9443 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9444 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9445 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9446 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9447 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9448 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9450 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9451 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9452 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9453 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9454 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9455 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9456 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9457 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9458 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9459 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9460 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9461 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9462 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9463 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9464 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9465 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9466 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9467 Tor's uptime (26009).
9469 o Minor features (accounting):
9470 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9471 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9472 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9473 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9475 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9476 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9477 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9478 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9480 o Minor features (code quality):
9481 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9482 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9483 Closes ticket 25024.
9485 o Minor features (compatibility):
9486 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9487 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9488 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9489 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9490 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9491 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9493 o Minor features (compilation):
9494 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9495 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9496 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9497 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9498 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9499 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9500 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9501 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9504 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9505 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9506 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9507 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9508 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9509 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9511 o Minor features (configuration):
9512 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9513 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9514 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9515 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9516 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9518 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9519 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9520 Implements ticket 27449.
9521 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9522 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9524 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9525 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9527 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9528 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9529 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9530 Implements ticket 27275.
9531 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9532 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9533 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9534 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9535 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9537 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9538 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9541 o Minor features (control port):
9542 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9543 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9544 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9545 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9546 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9547 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9548 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9549 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9550 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9551 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9553 o Minor features (controller):
9554 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9555 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9556 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9558 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9559 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9560 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9561 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9562 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9563 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9564 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9566 o Minor features (directory authority):
9567 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9568 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9569 Closes ticket 23909.
9571 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9572 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9573 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9574 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9576 o Minor features (entry guards):
9577 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9578 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9580 o Minor features (geoip):
9581 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9582 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9584 o Minor features (performance):
9585 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9586 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9587 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9588 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9590 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9591 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9593 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9594 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9596 o Minor features (testing):
9597 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9598 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9600 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9601 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9602 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9603 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9604 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9605 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9607 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9608 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9609 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9610 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9611 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9613 o Minor features (unit tests):
9614 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9615 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9616 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9619 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9620 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9621 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9622 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9623 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9624 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9626 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9627 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9628 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9629 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9632 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9633 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9634 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9635 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9637 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9638 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9639 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9640 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9641 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9642 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9643 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9644 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9646 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9647 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9648 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9649 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9650 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9651 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9652 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9653 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9654 Closes ticket 26245.
9655 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9656 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9657 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9659 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9660 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9661 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9662 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9664 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9665 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9666 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9667 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9668 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9670 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9671 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9672 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9673 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9674 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9675 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9676 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9677 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9678 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9679 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9680 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9681 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9683 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9684 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9685 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9688 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9689 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9690 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9693 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9694 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9695 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9696 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9697 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9698 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9701 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9702 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9703 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9704 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9705 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9706 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9707 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9709 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9710 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9711 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9712 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9714 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9715 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9716 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9717 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9718 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9720 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9721 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9722 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9725 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9726 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9727 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9729 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9730 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9732 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9733 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9734 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9735 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9736 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9738 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9739 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9740 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9742 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9743 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9744 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9745 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9746 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9749 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9750 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9751 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9752 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9754 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9755 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9756 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9757 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9758 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9759 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9760 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9762 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9763 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9765 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9766 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9767 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9768 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9769 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9771 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9772 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9773 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9774 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9775 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9777 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9778 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
9779 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
9780 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9782 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9783 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9784 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9785 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9788 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9789 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9790 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9791 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9792 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9793 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9794 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9795 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9796 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9797 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9799 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9800 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9801 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9802 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9803 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9804 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9805 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9807 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9808 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9809 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9810 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9811 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9813 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9814 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9815 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9818 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
9819 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
9820 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
9821 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
9822 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9824 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
9825 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9826 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9827 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9828 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9829 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9830 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9833 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9834 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9835 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9836 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9837 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9839 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9840 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9841 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9842 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9843 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9845 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9846 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9847 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9848 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9849 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9850 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9852 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
9853 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9854 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9856 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9857 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9858 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9859 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9860 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9861 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9862 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9863 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9865 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9866 confusing we renamed some functions and
9867 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9868 router_should_check_reachability() and
9869 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9870 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9871 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9872 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9873 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9875 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9876 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9878 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9879 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9880 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9881 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9882 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9883 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9884 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9885 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9886 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9887 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9888 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9889 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9890 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9891 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9892 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9893 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9894 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9895 Closes ticket 25766.
9896 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9897 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9898 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9899 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9900 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9901 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9902 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9903 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9904 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9905 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9906 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9907 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9908 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9909 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9911 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9912 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9913 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9914 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9915 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9916 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9917 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9918 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9919 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9921 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9922 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9923 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9924 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9926 o Deprecated features:
9927 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9928 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9929 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9930 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9931 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9932 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9935 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9936 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9937 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9938 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9939 24378 and proposal 290.
9940 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9941 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9942 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9943 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9944 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9945 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9946 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9947 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9948 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9949 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9950 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9951 their local router. Closes 25409.
9952 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9953 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9954 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9955 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9956 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9957 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9958 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9959 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9960 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9961 Closes ticket 25268.
9964 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9965 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9966 bridge relays should upgrade.
9968 o Directory authority changes:
9969 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9970 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9971 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9974 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9975 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9976 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9979 o Directory authority changes:
9980 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9981 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9982 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9984 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9985 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9986 Closes ticket 26343.
9988 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9989 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9990 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9991 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9992 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9994 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9995 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9996 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9998 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9999 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10000 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10001 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10003 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10004 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10005 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10007 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10008 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10009 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10010 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10011 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10012 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10014 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10015 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10016 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10017 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10019 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10020 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10021 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10024 o Minor features (geoip):
10025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10026 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10028 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10029 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10030 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10031 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10032 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10034 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10035 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10036 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10038 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10039 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10040 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10041 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10042 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10043 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10044 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10045 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10048 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10049 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10050 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10051 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10052 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10053 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10055 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10056 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10057 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10058 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10059 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10062 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10063 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10064 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10065 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10067 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10068 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10069 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10072 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10073 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10074 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10076 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10077 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10078 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10079 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10081 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10082 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10083 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10084 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10085 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10086 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10087 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10089 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10090 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10091 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10092 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10095 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10096 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10097 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10100 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10101 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10103 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10104 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10105 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10106 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10110 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10111 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10112 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10114 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10115 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10116 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10118 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10119 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10120 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10123 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10124 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10125 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10128 o Directory authority changes:
10129 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10130 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10131 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10133 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10134 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10135 Closes ticket 26343.
10137 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10138 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10139 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10140 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10141 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10143 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10144 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10145 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10146 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10148 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10149 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10150 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10151 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10152 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10153 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10155 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10156 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10157 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10160 o Minor features (geoip):
10161 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10162 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10164 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10165 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10166 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10167 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10168 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10170 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10171 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10172 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10174 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10175 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10176 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10177 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10180 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10181 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10182 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10183 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10184 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10185 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10188 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10189 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10190 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10191 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10193 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10194 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10195 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10198 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10199 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10200 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10202 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10203 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10204 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10205 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10207 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10208 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10209 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10211 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10212 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10213 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10216 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10217 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10218 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10220 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10221 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10222 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10223 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10225 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10226 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10227 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10230 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10231 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10232 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10235 o Minor features (geoip):
10236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10237 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10239 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10240 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10241 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10242 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10244 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10245 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10246 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10247 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10248 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10251 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10252 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10253 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10254 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10255 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10257 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10258 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10259 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10260 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10262 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10263 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10264 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10266 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10267 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10268 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10269 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10272 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10273 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10274 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10275 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10277 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10278 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10279 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10280 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10281 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10282 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10283 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10284 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10288 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10289 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10290 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10292 o Directory authority changes:
10293 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10294 Closes ticket 26343.
10296 o Minor features (geoip):
10297 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10298 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10300 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10301 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10302 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10303 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10304 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10305 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10308 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10309 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10311 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10312 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10313 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10314 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10315 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10317 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10318 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10319 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10321 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10322 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10323 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10324 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10325 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10326 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10329 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10330 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10331 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10333 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10334 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10335 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10336 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10337 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10338 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10340 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10341 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10343 o New system requirements:
10344 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10345 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10347 o Major features (embedding):
10348 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10349 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10350 Closes ticket 23684.
10351 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10352 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10353 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10354 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10355 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10356 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10358 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10359 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10360 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10361 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10363 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10364 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10365 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10366 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10367 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10369 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10370 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10373 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10374 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10375 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10376 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10377 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10378 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10379 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10381 o Major features (onion services):
10382 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10383 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10384 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10385 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10386 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10388 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10389 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10390 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10391 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10392 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10393 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10395 o Major features (relay):
10396 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10397 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10398 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10399 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10400 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10402 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10403 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10404 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10405 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10406 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10407 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10408 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10409 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10411 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10412 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10413 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10414 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10415 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10417 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10418 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10419 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10420 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10421 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10423 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10424 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10425 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10426 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10428 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10429 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10430 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10431 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10432 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10433 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10434 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10435 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10437 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10438 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10439 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10440 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10442 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10443 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10444 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10446 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10447 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10448 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10449 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10450 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10451 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10452 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10454 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10455 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10456 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10457 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10458 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10460 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10461 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10462 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10465 o Minor features (cleanup):
10466 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10467 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10469 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10470 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10471 Closes ticket 26006.
10473 o Minor features (config options):
10474 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10475 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10476 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10479 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10480 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10481 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10483 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10484 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10485 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10486 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10487 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10488 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10490 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10491 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10492 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10493 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10494 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10495 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10496 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10497 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10498 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10499 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10501 o Minor features (directory authority):
10502 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10503 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10505 o Minor features (embedding):
10506 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10507 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10508 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10509 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10510 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10511 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10512 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10513 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10514 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10515 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10516 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10517 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10518 Closes ticket 23848.
10519 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10520 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10521 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10523 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10524 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10525 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10526 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10527 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10528 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10529 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10530 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10533 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10534 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10535 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10536 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10537 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10538 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10539 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10541 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10542 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10543 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10544 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10545 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10546 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10547 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10548 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10549 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10550 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10551 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10552 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10554 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10555 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10556 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10558 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10559 Implements ticket 24791.
10561 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10562 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10563 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10564 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10565 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10566 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10568 o Minor features (geoip):
10569 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10570 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10572 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10573 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10574 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10577 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10578 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10579 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10580 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10581 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10583 o Minor features (IPv6):
10584 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10585 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10586 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10587 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10588 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10591 o Minor features (log messages):
10592 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10593 information about memory usage from the different compression
10594 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10595 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10596 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10597 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10598 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10600 o Minor features (logging):
10601 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10602 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10603 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10606 o Minor features (performance):
10607 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10608 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10609 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10610 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10612 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10613 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10614 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10615 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10616 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10617 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10618 Implements ticket 24374.
10620 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10621 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10622 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10623 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10624 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10626 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10627 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10628 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10629 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10632 o Minor features (sandbox):
10633 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10634 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10635 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10637 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10638 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10639 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10640 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10641 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10643 o Minor features (testing):
10644 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10647 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10648 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10649 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10650 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10651 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10652 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10653 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10654 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10655 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10657 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10658 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10659 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10660 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10661 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10662 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10663 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10664 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10665 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10668 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10669 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10670 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10671 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10673 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10674 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10675 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10677 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10678 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10679 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10680 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10681 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10683 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10684 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10685 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10688 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10689 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10690 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10691 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10693 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10694 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10695 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10696 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10697 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10698 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10699 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10701 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10702 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10703 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10704 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10706 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10707 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10708 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10709 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10710 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10712 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10713 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10714 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10715 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10718 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10719 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10720 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10721 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10722 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10724 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10725 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10726 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10727 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10728 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10731 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
10732 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
10733 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
10734 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
10735 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
10737 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
10738 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
10739 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
10742 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
10743 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
10744 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
10746 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
10747 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10748 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
10749 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
10750 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
10752 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
10753 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10754 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
10755 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10757 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
10758 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
10759 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10760 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
10761 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
10762 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10764 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10765 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
10766 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
10767 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10769 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10770 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10771 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10773 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10774 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10775 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10776 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10778 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10779 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10780 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
10781 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
10784 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10785 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
10786 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
10787 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
10788 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10789 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
10792 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
10793 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10794 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10795 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10797 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10798 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
10799 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
10801 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10802 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
10803 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
10804 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
10805 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
10806 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10808 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10809 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10810 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10811 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10812 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10813 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10814 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10816 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10817 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10818 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10819 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10821 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10822 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10823 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10824 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10825 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10827 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10828 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10829 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10830 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10831 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10832 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10834 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
10835 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
10836 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
10837 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
10838 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
10839 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10840 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
10841 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
10842 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
10843 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
10844 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
10845 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10847 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10848 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10849 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10851 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10852 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10853 would call the Rust implementation of
10854 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10855 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10856 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10857 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10858 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10860 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
10861 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10862 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10863 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10865 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10866 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10867 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10868 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10870 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
10871 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10873 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10874 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10875 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10876 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10877 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10878 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10880 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10881 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10882 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10883 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
10884 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
10886 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10888 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10889 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10890 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10892 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
10894 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
10895 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
10896 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
10897 "aruna1234" and teor.
10898 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
10899 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
10900 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
10901 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
10903 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
10904 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
10905 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
10906 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
10907 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
10908 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
10909 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
10910 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
10911 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
10912 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
10914 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
10915 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
10918 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
10920 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
10921 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
10922 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
10923 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
10925 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
10926 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
10927 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
10928 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
10930 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
10931 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
10932 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
10933 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
10934 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
10936 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
10937 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
10938 adding very little except for unit test.
10940 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
10941 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
10942 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
10943 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
10945 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
10946 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
10947 const. Implements ticket 24489.
10949 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10950 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10951 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10953 o Documentation (man page):
10954 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10955 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10958 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10959 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10960 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10964 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10965 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10968 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10969 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10971 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10972 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10974 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10977 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10978 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10979 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10981 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10982 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10983 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10984 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10987 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10988 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10989 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10990 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10993 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10994 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10995 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10996 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10997 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10998 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10999 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11000 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11001 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11002 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11003 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11004 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11005 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11007 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11008 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11009 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11011 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11012 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11013 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11014 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11015 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11016 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11017 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11019 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11020 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11021 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11023 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11024 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11025 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11026 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11027 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11028 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11029 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11031 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11032 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11033 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11034 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11036 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11037 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11038 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11039 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11041 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11042 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11043 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11044 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11045 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11046 Closes ticket 24978.
11048 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11049 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11050 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11051 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11052 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11053 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11054 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11055 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11056 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11058 o Minor features (geoip):
11059 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11062 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11063 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11064 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11065 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11066 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11068 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11069 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11070 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11071 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11072 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11074 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11075 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11076 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11077 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11078 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11081 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11082 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11083 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11084 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11085 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11086 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11087 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11088 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11089 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11090 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11091 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11094 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11095 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11096 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11098 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11099 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11100 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11103 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11104 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11105 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11106 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11107 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11108 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11109 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11111 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11112 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11113 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11114 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11115 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11116 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11117 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11118 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11119 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11122 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11123 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11124 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11125 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11126 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11127 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11129 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11130 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11131 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11132 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11134 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11135 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11136 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11137 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11138 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11141 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11142 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11143 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11144 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11145 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11146 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11148 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11149 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11150 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11151 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11152 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11153 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11154 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11155 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11156 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11157 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11158 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11159 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11162 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11163 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11164 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11166 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11167 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11168 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11169 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11171 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11172 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11173 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11174 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11177 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11178 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11179 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11180 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11181 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11183 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11184 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11186 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11187 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11189 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11190 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11191 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11194 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11195 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11196 later Tor releases.
11198 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11199 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11201 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11202 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11204 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11207 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11208 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11209 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11211 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11212 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11213 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11214 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11217 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11218 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11219 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11220 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11221 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11222 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11223 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11224 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11225 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11226 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11227 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11228 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11229 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11231 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11232 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11233 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11234 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11235 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11236 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11237 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11238 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11239 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11241 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11242 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11243 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11244 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11245 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11246 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11247 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11249 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11250 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11251 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11252 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11254 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11255 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11256 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11257 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11258 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11259 Closes ticket 24978.
11261 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11262 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11263 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11264 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11266 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11267 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11268 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11269 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11270 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11271 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11272 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11273 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11274 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11276 o Minor features (geoip):
11277 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11280 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11281 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11282 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11284 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11285 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11286 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11287 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11288 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11290 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11291 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11292 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11293 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11294 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11296 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11297 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11298 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11299 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11300 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11304 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11305 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11307 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11308 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11309 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11312 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11313 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11314 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11315 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11316 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11317 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11318 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11320 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11321 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11322 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11323 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11324 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11327 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11328 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11329 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11330 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11331 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11332 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11334 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11335 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11336 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11337 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11339 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11340 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11341 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11342 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11343 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11344 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11345 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11346 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11347 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11348 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11349 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11350 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11352 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11353 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11354 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11355 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11358 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11359 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11360 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11361 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11362 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11364 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11365 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11367 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11368 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11371 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11372 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11373 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11376 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11377 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11379 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11380 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11381 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11382 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11383 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11384 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11387 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11388 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11390 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11393 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11394 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11395 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11396 the DoS mitigations.)
11398 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11399 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11400 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11401 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11404 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11405 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11406 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11407 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11409 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11410 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11411 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11412 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11413 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11414 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11415 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11416 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11417 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11418 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11419 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11420 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11421 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11423 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11424 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11425 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11426 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11427 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11428 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11429 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11430 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11431 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11432 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11433 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11435 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11436 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11437 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11439 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11440 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11441 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11442 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11443 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11444 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11445 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11447 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11448 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11449 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11450 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11452 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11453 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11454 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11455 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11457 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11458 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11459 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11460 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11461 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11462 Closes ticket 24978.
11464 o Minor features (geoip):
11465 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11468 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11469 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11470 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11473 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11474 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11475 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11476 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11477 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11479 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11480 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11481 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11482 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11483 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11484 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11485 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11487 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11488 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11489 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11490 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11491 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11493 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11494 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11495 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11496 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11498 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11499 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11500 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11501 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11502 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11504 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11505 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11506 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11507 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11509 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11510 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11511 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11512 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11514 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11515 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11516 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11517 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11519 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11520 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11522 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11523 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11525 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11526 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11527 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11529 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11530 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11531 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11532 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11533 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11535 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11536 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11537 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11539 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11540 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11541 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11545 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11546 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11548 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11549 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11550 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11551 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11552 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11553 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11555 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11556 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11557 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11558 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11559 with the 0.2.9 series.
11561 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11562 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11564 o Directory authority changes:
11565 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11566 Closes ticket 23910.
11567 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11568 Closes ticket 23592.
11569 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11570 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11571 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11572 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11573 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11576 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11577 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11578 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11579 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11580 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11581 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11584 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11585 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11587 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11590 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11593 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11595 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11597 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11599 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11600 they are 56 characters long, as in
11601 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11603 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11604 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11605 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11606 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11607 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11610 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11611 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11612 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11613 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11614 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11615 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11616 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11618 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11619 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11620 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11621 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11622 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11623 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11624 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11625 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11626 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11627 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11628 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11629 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11631 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11632 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11633 more information, see the design paper at
11634 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11635 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11636 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11637 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11639 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11640 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11641 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11642 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11643 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11644 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11645 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11646 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11648 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11649 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11650 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11651 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11654 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11655 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11656 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11657 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11658 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11659 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11660 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11661 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11662 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11663 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11664 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11665 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11668 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11669 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11670 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11671 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11672 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11673 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11674 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11675 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11676 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11678 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11679 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11680 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11681 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11682 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11683 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11684 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11685 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11686 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11687 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11688 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11691 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11692 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11693 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11694 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11695 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11696 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11697 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11699 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11700 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11701 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11702 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11703 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11704 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11707 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11708 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11709 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11710 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11712 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11713 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11714 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11715 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11717 o Minor features (bridge):
11718 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11719 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11720 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11721 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11722 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11723 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11724 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11725 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
11726 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
11727 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
11728 related to ticket 23080.
11730 o Minor features (bug detection):
11731 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
11732 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
11733 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
11735 o Minor features (build, compilation):
11736 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
11737 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
11738 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
11739 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
11740 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
11741 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
11742 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
11743 Closes ticket 23643.
11745 o Minor features (client):
11746 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
11747 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
11748 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
11749 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
11750 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
11751 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
11752 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
11753 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
11754 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
11755 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
11756 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11757 Resolves ticket 23670.
11759 o Minor features (command line):
11760 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
11761 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
11762 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
11764 o Minor features (control port):
11765 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
11766 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
11767 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
11769 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
11770 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
11772 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
11773 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
11774 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
11775 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
11776 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
11777 Closes ticket 23237.
11778 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
11779 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11781 o Minor features (development support):
11782 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
11783 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
11784 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
11785 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
11786 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
11787 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
11789 o Minor features (directory authority):
11790 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11791 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11792 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11793 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11795 o Minor features (ed25519):
11796 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
11797 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
11798 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
11800 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
11801 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
11802 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
11804 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11805 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11806 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11807 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11808 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11809 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11810 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11811 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11812 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11814 o Minor features (geoip):
11815 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11818 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
11819 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
11820 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
11821 another program, regardless of the settings of
11822 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
11823 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
11824 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
11826 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11827 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11828 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11830 o Minor features (logging):
11831 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11833 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11834 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11836 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11837 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11838 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
11839 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
11840 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
11841 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
11842 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
11843 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
11844 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
11845 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
11847 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
11848 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
11850 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
11851 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
11852 the circuit identifier(s).
11853 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
11854 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
11856 o Minor features (portability):
11857 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11858 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11860 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
11861 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
11862 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
11863 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
11865 o Minor features (relay):
11866 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
11867 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
11868 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
11869 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
11870 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
11871 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
11872 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
11873 results. Closes ticket 22731.
11875 o Minor features (relay statistics):
11876 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11877 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11878 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11880 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
11881 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11882 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11883 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11884 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11886 o Minor features (robustness):
11887 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
11888 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
11890 o Minor features (startup, safety):
11891 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
11892 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
11895 o Minor features (static analysis):
11896 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
11897 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
11900 o Minor features (testing):
11901 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11902 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11903 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
11904 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
11906 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
11907 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
11908 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
11909 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
11910 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
11912 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11913 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11914 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11915 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11916 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11919 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11920 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
11921 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
11924 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11925 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11926 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11927 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11928 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11929 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11930 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11931 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11932 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11933 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11934 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11935 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11936 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11938 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11939 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11940 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
11941 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11943 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
11944 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11945 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11946 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11947 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
11948 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
11949 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
11950 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
11951 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11952 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11953 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11954 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11955 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11956 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11957 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11958 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11959 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11961 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11962 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
11963 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
11964 Coverity as CID 1415728.
11966 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11967 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11968 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11969 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11971 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
11972 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
11973 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
11974 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
11975 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
11976 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
11977 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
11978 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11980 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11981 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11982 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11983 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11984 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11985 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11986 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11987 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11988 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11989 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11990 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11991 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11992 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11993 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11996 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11997 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11998 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12001 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12002 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12003 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12004 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12006 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12007 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12008 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12011 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12012 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12013 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12014 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12016 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12017 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12018 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12019 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12020 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12021 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12022 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12023 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12024 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12027 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12028 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12029 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12030 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12031 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12033 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12034 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12035 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12036 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12037 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12038 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12040 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12041 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12044 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12045 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12046 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12047 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12048 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12049 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12051 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12052 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12053 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12054 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12056 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12057 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12058 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12059 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12060 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12061 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12063 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12064 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12065 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12066 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12067 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12068 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12069 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12072 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12073 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12074 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12075 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12077 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12078 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12079 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12080 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12081 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12082 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12083 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12084 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12085 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12086 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12088 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12089 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12090 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12092 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12093 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12094 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12096 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12097 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12098 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12099 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12100 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12101 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12103 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12104 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12105 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12106 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12107 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12108 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12110 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12111 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12112 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12114 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12115 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12116 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12117 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12118 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12121 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12122 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12123 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12124 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12125 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12126 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12128 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12129 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12130 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12131 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12132 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12133 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12134 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12136 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12137 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12138 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12139 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12140 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12141 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12142 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12143 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12144 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12146 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12147 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12148 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12149 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12150 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12151 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12152 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12153 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12154 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12155 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12156 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12157 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12159 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12160 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12161 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12162 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12163 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12164 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12167 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12168 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12169 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12170 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12171 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12172 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12173 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12174 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12175 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12176 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12177 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12178 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12180 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12181 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12182 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12183 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12184 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12185 Closes ticket 24109.
12186 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12187 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12188 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12189 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12191 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12192 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12194 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12195 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12196 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12197 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12198 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12199 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12200 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12201 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12202 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12203 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12204 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12206 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12207 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12208 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12209 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12211 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12212 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12213 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12215 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12216 function from the general code to handle channel state
12217 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12218 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12219 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12220 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12221 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12222 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12223 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12224 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12226 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12227 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12229 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12230 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12231 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12232 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12233 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12234 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12235 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12236 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12237 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12238 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12239 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12240 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12242 o Deprecated features:
12243 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12244 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12245 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12246 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12247 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12248 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12252 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12253 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12254 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12255 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12256 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12257 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12258 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12259 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12260 Closes ticket 18736.
12261 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12262 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12263 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12264 Closes ticket 15645.
12265 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12266 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12267 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12268 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12270 o Removed features:
12271 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12272 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12273 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12274 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12275 Closes ticket 21031.
12276 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12277 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12280 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12281 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12282 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12283 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12285 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12286 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12287 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12288 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12289 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12290 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12291 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12292 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12293 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12294 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12295 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12297 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12298 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12299 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12300 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12301 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12302 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12303 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12306 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12307 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12308 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12309 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12310 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12312 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12313 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12314 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12315 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12316 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12317 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12318 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12319 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12320 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12322 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12323 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12324 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12325 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12326 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12327 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12330 o Minor features (bridge):
12331 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12332 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12333 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12334 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12337 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12338 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12341 o Minor features (geoip):
12342 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12345 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12346 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12347 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12348 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12349 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12351 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12352 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12353 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12355 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12356 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12357 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12358 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12359 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12360 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12362 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12363 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12364 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12367 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12368 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12369 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12370 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12371 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12374 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12375 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12376 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12377 to another of the releases coming out today.
12379 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12380 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12381 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12383 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12384 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12385 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12386 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12387 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12388 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12389 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12390 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12391 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12392 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12393 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12395 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12396 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12397 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12398 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12399 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12400 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12401 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12404 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12405 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12406 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12407 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12408 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12410 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12411 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12412 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12413 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12414 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12415 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12416 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12417 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12418 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12420 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12421 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12422 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12423 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12424 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12425 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12428 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12429 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12430 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12431 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12432 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12433 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12435 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12436 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12437 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12438 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12439 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12442 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12443 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12446 o Minor features (geoip):
12447 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12450 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12451 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12452 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12453 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12454 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12456 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12457 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12458 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12460 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12461 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12462 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12463 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12464 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12465 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12467 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12468 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12469 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12470 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12471 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12473 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12474 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12475 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12478 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12479 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12480 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12481 to another of the releases coming out today.
12483 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12484 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12485 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12486 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12487 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12488 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12491 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12492 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12493 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12494 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12495 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12496 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12497 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12498 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12499 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12500 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12501 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12503 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12504 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12505 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12506 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12507 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12508 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12509 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12512 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12513 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12514 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12515 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12516 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12518 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12519 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12520 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12521 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12522 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12523 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12525 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12526 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12527 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12528 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12529 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12532 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12533 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12536 o Minor features (geoip):
12537 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12540 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12541 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12542 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12543 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12544 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12545 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12547 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12548 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12549 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12550 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12551 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12554 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12555 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12557 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12558 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12559 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12560 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12561 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12562 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12564 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12565 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12566 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12567 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12568 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12570 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12571 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12572 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12575 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12576 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12577 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12578 to another of the releases coming out today.
12580 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12581 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12582 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12584 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12585 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12586 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12587 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12588 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12589 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12590 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12591 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12592 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12593 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12594 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12595 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12596 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12597 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12598 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12601 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12602 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12603 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12604 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12605 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12607 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12608 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12609 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12610 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12611 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12614 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12615 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12616 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12617 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12618 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12621 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12622 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12625 o Minor features (geoip):
12626 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12629 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12630 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12631 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12634 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12635 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12636 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12637 to another of the releases coming out today.
12639 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12640 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12641 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12643 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12644 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12645 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12646 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12647 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12648 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12649 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12650 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12651 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12652 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12653 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12654 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12655 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12656 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12657 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12660 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12661 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12662 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12663 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12664 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12665 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12667 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12668 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12669 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12670 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12671 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12674 o Minor features (geoip):
12675 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12679 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12680 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12681 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12683 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12684 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12685 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12687 o Directory authority changes:
12688 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12689 Closes ticket 23910.
12690 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12691 Closes ticket 23592.
12693 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12694 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12695 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12696 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12697 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12699 o Minor features (geoip):
12700 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12703 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12704 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12705 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12706 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12707 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12708 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12709 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12710 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12711 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12713 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12714 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12715 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12716 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12717 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12718 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12719 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12720 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12721 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12724 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12725 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12726 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12727 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12729 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12730 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12731 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12733 o Directory authority changes:
12734 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12735 Closes ticket 23910.
12736 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12737 Closes ticket 23592.
12739 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12740 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12741 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12742 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12744 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12745 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12746 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12747 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12748 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12750 o Minor features (geoip):
12751 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12755 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12756 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12757 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12758 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12760 o Directory authority changes:
12761 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12762 Closes ticket 23910.
12763 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12764 Closes ticket 23592.
12766 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12767 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12768 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12769 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12771 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12772 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12773 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12774 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12775 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12777 o Minor features (geoip):
12778 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12781 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12782 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12783 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12784 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12785 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12786 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12787 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12788 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12791 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12792 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12793 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12795 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12796 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12797 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12798 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12799 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12800 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12801 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12804 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12805 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12806 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12807 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12809 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12810 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12811 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12813 o Directory authority changes:
12814 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12815 Closes ticket 23910.
12816 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12817 Closes ticket 23592.
12819 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12820 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12821 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12822 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12824 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12825 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12826 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12827 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12828 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12830 o Minor features (geoip):
12831 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12834 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12835 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12836 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12837 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12838 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12839 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12840 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12841 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12844 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12845 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12846 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12847 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12849 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12850 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12851 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12853 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12854 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12855 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12856 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12857 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12858 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12859 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12862 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12863 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12864 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12865 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12866 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12868 o Directory authority changes:
12869 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12870 Closes ticket 23910.
12871 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12872 Closes ticket 23592.
12874 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12875 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12876 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12877 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12879 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12880 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12881 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12882 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12883 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12885 o Minor features (geoip):
12886 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12889 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12890 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12891 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12892 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12894 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12895 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12896 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12899 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12900 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12901 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12903 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12904 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12905 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12906 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12908 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12909 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12910 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12912 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12913 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12914 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12918 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12919 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12922 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12923 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12924 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12925 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12927 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12928 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12929 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12930 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12932 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12933 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12934 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12935 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12936 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12943 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12944 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12947 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12948 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12949 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12950 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12951 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12952 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12953 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12954 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12955 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12957 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12958 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12959 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12960 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12961 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12962 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12963 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12964 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12965 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12968 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12969 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12972 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12973 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12974 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12975 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12977 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12978 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12979 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12980 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12981 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12982 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12983 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12985 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12986 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12987 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12988 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12990 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12991 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12992 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12994 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12995 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12996 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12997 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12999 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13000 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13001 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13002 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13003 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13005 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13006 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13007 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13008 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13010 o Minor features (geoip):
13011 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13014 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13015 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13016 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13017 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13019 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13020 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13021 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13022 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13023 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13024 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13025 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13026 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13028 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13029 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13030 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13032 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13033 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13034 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13037 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13038 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13039 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13040 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13041 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13043 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13044 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13045 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13046 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13047 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13048 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13050 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13051 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13052 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13053 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13054 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13055 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13056 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13057 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13058 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13060 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13061 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13062 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13063 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13065 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13066 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13067 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13069 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13070 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13071 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13072 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13073 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13075 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13076 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13077 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13080 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13081 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13082 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13083 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13084 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13086 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13087 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13088 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13089 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13090 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13091 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13092 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13093 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13094 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13097 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13098 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13101 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13102 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13103 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13104 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13106 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13107 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13108 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13109 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13112 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13116 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13117 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13119 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13120 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13121 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13122 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13123 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13125 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13126 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13127 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13128 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13130 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13131 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13132 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13134 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13135 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13136 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13137 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13140 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13141 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13143 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13144 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13145 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13146 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13147 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13148 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13149 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13151 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13152 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13153 disabled. For more information, see
13154 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13156 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13157 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13158 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13159 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13160 with the 0.2.9 series.
13162 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13163 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13165 o New dependencies:
13166 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13167 pkg-config tool at build time.
13169 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13170 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13171 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13172 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13173 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13175 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13176 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13177 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13178 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13179 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13180 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13181 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13182 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13183 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13185 o Major features (directory protocol):
13186 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13187 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13188 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13189 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13190 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13191 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13192 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13193 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13194 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13195 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13196 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13197 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13198 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13199 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13200 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13201 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13202 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13204 o Major features (experimental):
13205 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13206 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13207 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13208 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13209 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13210 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13211 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13213 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13214 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13215 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13216 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13217 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13218 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13221 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13222 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13223 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13224 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13225 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13226 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13227 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13228 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13229 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13230 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13231 multiples of 10000.
13233 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13234 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13235 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13236 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13237 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13238 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13239 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13242 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13243 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13244 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13245 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13246 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13247 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13249 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13250 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13251 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13252 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13253 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13254 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13255 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13256 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13257 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13258 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13259 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13260 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13261 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13262 Otherwise it is at info.
13264 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13265 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13266 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13267 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13268 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13269 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13270 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13272 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13273 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13274 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13275 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13277 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13278 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13279 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13280 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13281 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13283 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13284 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13285 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13286 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13287 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13288 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13289 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13292 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13293 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13294 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13295 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13296 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13297 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13298 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13299 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13300 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13301 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13302 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13303 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13304 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13307 o Minor features (security, windows):
13308 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13309 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13310 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13311 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13312 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13314 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13315 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13316 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13318 o Minor features (code style):
13319 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13320 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13321 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13323 o Minor features (config options):
13324 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13325 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13326 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13327 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13328 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13329 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13330 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13331 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13333 o Minor features (controller):
13334 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13335 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13337 o Minor features (defaults):
13338 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13339 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13340 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13341 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13342 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13343 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13344 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13345 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13346 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13347 Closes ticket 21641.
13349 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13350 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13351 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13352 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13355 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13356 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13357 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13358 attempt for bug 23105.
13359 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13360 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13361 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13362 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13363 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13364 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13365 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13367 o Minor features (directory authority):
13368 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13369 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13370 Closes ticket 22348.
13372 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13373 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13374 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13375 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13376 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13379 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13380 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13381 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13382 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13383 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13384 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13385 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13387 o Minor features (geoip):
13388 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13391 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13392 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13393 introduction points than specified in
13394 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13395 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13396 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13397 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13398 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13399 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13400 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13401 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13403 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13404 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13405 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13406 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13407 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13408 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13409 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13410 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13411 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13412 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13414 o Minor features (logging):
13415 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13416 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13417 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13418 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13421 o Minor features (performance):
13422 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13423 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13425 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13426 speed some controller functions.
13428 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13429 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13430 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13431 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13433 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13434 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13435 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13436 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13437 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13438 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13441 o Minor features (safety):
13442 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13443 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13444 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13447 o Minor features (testing):
13448 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13450 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13451 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13452 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13453 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13454 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13455 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13456 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13457 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13458 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13459 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13460 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13461 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13462 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13463 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13464 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13465 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13467 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13468 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13469 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13470 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13472 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13473 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13474 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13475 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13479 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13480 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13481 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13482 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13483 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13484 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13485 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13489 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13490 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13492 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13493 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13494 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13495 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13496 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13497 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13499 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13500 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13501 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13503 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13504 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13505 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13506 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13507 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13508 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13509 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13510 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13511 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13512 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13513 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13514 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13515 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13516 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13518 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13519 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13520 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13521 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13522 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13523 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13524 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13525 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13526 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13527 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13528 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13529 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13531 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13532 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13533 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13535 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13536 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13537 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13538 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13539 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13540 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13542 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13543 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13544 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13545 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13546 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13547 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13548 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13549 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13550 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13551 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13552 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13553 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13555 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13556 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13557 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13558 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13559 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13560 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13561 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13562 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13564 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13565 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13566 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13567 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13568 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13569 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13571 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13572 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13573 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13576 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13577 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13578 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13579 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13580 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13582 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13583 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13584 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13585 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13586 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13587 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13588 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13589 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13590 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13591 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13592 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13594 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13595 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13596 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13597 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13599 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13600 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13601 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13602 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13603 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13604 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13605 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13606 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13607 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13608 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13609 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13610 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13611 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13612 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13614 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13615 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13616 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13617 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13618 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13619 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13620 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13622 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13623 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13624 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13625 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13626 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13627 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13628 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13630 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13631 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13632 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13633 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13634 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13635 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13636 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13637 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13638 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13639 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13640 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13641 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13642 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13644 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13645 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13646 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13647 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13649 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13650 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13651 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13653 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13654 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13655 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13656 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13658 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13659 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13660 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13661 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13663 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13664 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13665 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13666 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13667 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13668 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13669 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13670 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13671 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13673 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13674 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13675 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13676 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13677 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13678 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13679 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13682 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13683 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13684 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13685 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13686 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13687 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13689 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13690 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13691 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13692 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13693 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13694 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13695 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13696 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13697 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13698 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13699 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13700 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13701 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13702 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13703 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13704 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13707 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13708 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13709 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13710 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13711 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13713 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13714 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13715 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13716 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13717 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13718 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13719 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13721 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
13722 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
13723 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13725 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13726 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
13727 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
13728 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
13729 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
13730 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
13731 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
13732 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
13733 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
13734 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
13735 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
13736 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
13738 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
13739 Resolves ticket 22213.
13740 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
13741 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
13742 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
13743 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
13744 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
13745 types. Closes ticket 21651.
13746 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
13747 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
13750 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13752 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13753 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13755 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13756 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13757 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13759 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13761 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
13762 Closes ticket 21873.
13763 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
13764 Closes ticket 21151.
13765 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
13766 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
13768 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
13769 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13770 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
13771 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
13773 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
13774 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
13775 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13776 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
13777 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
13778 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
13779 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
13780 default behavior is now unavailable.
13781 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
13782 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
13783 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
13784 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
13785 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
13786 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
13787 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
13789 o Removed features (tools):
13790 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
13791 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
13792 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
13793 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
13794 required. Closes ticket 21842.
13797 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13798 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13799 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13800 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13802 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13803 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13804 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13805 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13806 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13807 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13808 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13809 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13810 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13812 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13813 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13814 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13815 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13817 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13818 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13819 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13820 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13821 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13823 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13824 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13827 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13828 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13829 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13830 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13832 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13833 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13834 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13835 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13836 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13837 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13838 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13839 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13842 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13843 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13844 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13847 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13848 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13849 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13850 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13851 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13852 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13854 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13855 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13856 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13857 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13859 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13860 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13861 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13863 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13864 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13865 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13868 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13869 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13870 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13871 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13872 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13875 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13878 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13879 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13880 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13881 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13882 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13883 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13885 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13886 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13887 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13888 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13890 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13891 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13892 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13893 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13895 o Minor features (geoip):
13896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13899 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13900 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13901 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13902 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13903 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13905 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13906 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13907 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13908 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13909 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13911 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13912 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13913 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13914 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13915 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13916 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13917 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13918 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13919 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13922 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13923 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13924 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13925 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13926 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13928 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13929 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13930 bugfixes described below.
13932 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13933 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13934 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13935 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13936 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13937 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13938 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13939 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13942 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13943 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13944 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13945 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13946 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13947 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13948 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13951 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13952 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13953 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13954 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13955 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13956 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13957 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13958 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13959 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13960 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13961 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13962 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13963 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13966 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13967 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13968 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13971 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13972 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13973 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13974 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13975 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13977 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13978 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13979 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13981 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13982 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13983 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13985 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13986 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13987 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13988 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13989 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13990 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13991 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13993 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13995 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13996 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13997 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14000 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14001 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14002 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14003 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14004 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14005 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14007 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14008 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14009 bugfixes described below.
14011 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14012 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14013 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14014 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14015 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14018 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14019 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14020 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14021 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14022 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14023 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14024 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14027 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14028 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14029 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14030 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14031 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14033 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14034 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14035 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14036 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14037 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14038 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14039 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14041 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14042 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14043 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14044 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14045 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14047 o Minor features (geoip):
14048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14051 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14052 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14053 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14054 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14056 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14057 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14058 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14060 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14061 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14062 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14063 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14064 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14067 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14068 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14069 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14070 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14071 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14073 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14074 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14075 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14076 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14077 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14078 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14080 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14081 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14082 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14083 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14086 o Minor features (geoip):
14087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14090 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14091 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14092 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14093 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14094 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14096 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14097 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14098 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14100 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14101 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14102 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14103 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14104 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14105 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14107 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14108 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14109 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14110 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14113 o Minor features (geoip):
14114 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14117 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14118 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14119 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14122 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14123 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14124 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14125 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14126 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14127 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14129 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14130 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14131 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14132 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14135 o Minor features (geoip):
14136 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14139 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14140 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14141 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14143 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14144 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14145 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14146 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14147 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14148 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14150 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14151 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14152 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14153 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14156 o Minor features (geoip):
14157 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14160 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14161 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14162 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14164 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14165 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14166 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14167 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14168 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14169 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14171 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14172 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14173 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14174 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14177 o Minor features (geoip):
14178 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14181 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14182 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14183 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14186 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14187 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14188 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14189 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14190 clients are not affected.
14192 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14193 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14194 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14195 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14196 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14197 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14200 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14203 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14204 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14205 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14206 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14207 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14208 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14209 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14211 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14212 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14213 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14214 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14215 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14219 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14220 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14222 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14223 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14224 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14225 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14226 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14227 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14230 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14231 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14233 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14234 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14235 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14236 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14237 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14239 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14240 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14242 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14243 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14244 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14245 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14247 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14248 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14249 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14250 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14251 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14254 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14255 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14256 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14257 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14258 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14259 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14260 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14261 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14264 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14265 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14266 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14267 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14268 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14269 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14270 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14271 15056; part of proposal 220.
14272 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14273 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14274 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14275 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14276 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14277 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14278 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14279 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14280 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14283 o Major features (security):
14284 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14285 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14286 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14287 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14288 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14289 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14291 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14292 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14293 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14294 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14295 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14296 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14297 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14298 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14299 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14300 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14301 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14303 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14304 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14305 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14306 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14308 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14309 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14310 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14311 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14314 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14315 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14316 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14318 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14319 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14320 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14321 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14322 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14323 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14324 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14326 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14327 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14328 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14329 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14330 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14331 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14332 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14333 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14334 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14335 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14336 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14337 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14338 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14339 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14340 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14342 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14343 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14344 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14345 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14346 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14348 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14349 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14350 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14351 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14352 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14353 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14354 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14356 o Minor feature (client):
14357 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14358 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14360 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14361 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14362 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14363 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14365 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14366 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14367 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14369 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14370 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14371 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14372 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14373 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14375 o Minor features (controller):
14376 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14377 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14378 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14379 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14382 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14383 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14384 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14385 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14386 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14387 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14388 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14389 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14390 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14391 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14393 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14394 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14395 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14398 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14399 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14400 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14402 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14403 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14404 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14406 o Minor features (directory authority):
14407 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14408 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14409 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14410 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14411 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14413 o Minor features (directory cache):
14414 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14415 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14418 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14419 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14420 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14421 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14423 o Minor features (entry guards):
14424 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14425 break regression tests.
14426 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14427 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14429 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14430 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14431 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14432 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14433 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14434 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14435 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14436 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14437 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14438 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14439 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14440 Closes ticket 20539.
14441 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14442 Closes ticket 20822.
14443 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14445 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14446 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14447 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14448 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14449 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14451 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14452 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14453 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14454 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14455 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14458 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14459 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14460 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14461 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14463 o Minor features (geoip):
14464 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14467 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14468 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14471 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14472 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14473 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14475 o Minor features (linting):
14476 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14477 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14479 o Minor features (logging):
14480 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14481 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14483 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14484 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14485 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14487 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14488 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14490 o Minor features (relay):
14491 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14492 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14493 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14494 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14496 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14497 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14498 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14501 o Minor features (testing):
14502 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14503 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14504 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14506 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14507 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14508 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14509 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14510 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14511 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14512 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14513 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14514 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14516 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14517 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14518 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14519 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14520 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14523 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14524 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14525 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14526 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14528 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14529 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14530 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14533 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14534 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14535 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14537 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14538 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14539 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14540 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14541 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14542 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14543 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14545 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14546 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14547 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14549 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14550 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14551 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14552 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14553 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14555 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14556 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14557 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14558 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14559 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14560 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14562 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14563 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14564 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14565 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14566 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14567 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14568 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14571 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14572 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14573 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14574 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14575 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14577 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14578 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14579 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14580 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14582 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14583 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14584 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14585 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14586 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14588 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14589 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14590 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14591 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14592 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14594 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14595 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14596 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14597 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14598 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14599 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14600 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14603 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14604 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14605 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14606 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14607 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14608 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14609 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14610 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14611 on all recent tor versions.
14613 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14614 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14615 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14617 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14618 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14619 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14621 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14622 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14623 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14624 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14625 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14626 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14627 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14628 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14629 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14631 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14632 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14633 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14634 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14635 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14636 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14637 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14638 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14639 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14640 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14641 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14644 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14645 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14646 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14647 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14648 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14649 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14650 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14651 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14652 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14653 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14654 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14657 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14658 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14659 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14660 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14661 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14662 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14663 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14664 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14666 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14667 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14668 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14671 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14672 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14673 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14675 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14676 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14677 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14678 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14681 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14682 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14683 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14684 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14686 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14687 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14689 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14690 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14691 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14693 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14694 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14695 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14696 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14698 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14699 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14700 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
14701 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14702 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14703 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14704 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14705 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14707 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14708 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14709 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14710 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14711 Patch by "junglefowl".
14713 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14714 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14715 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14716 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14717 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14719 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14720 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
14721 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
14722 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
14723 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
14725 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
14726 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
14727 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
14730 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
14731 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
14732 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
14733 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
14735 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14736 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
14737 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
14738 Closes ticket 19858.
14739 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
14740 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
14741 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
14742 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
14743 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
14744 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
14745 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
14746 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
14747 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
14748 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
14749 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14750 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
14751 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
14752 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
14753 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
14754 redundant with the similar structures used in the
14755 channel abstraction.
14756 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
14757 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
14758 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
14759 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14760 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
14761 replaced with code automatically generated by the
14764 o Documentation (formatting):
14765 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
14766 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
14768 o Documentation (man page):
14769 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
14770 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
14773 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
14774 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
14776 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
14777 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
14778 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
14780 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
14781 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
14782 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
14783 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14784 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
14785 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
14786 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
14787 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14788 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14789 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14791 o Removed features:
14792 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
14793 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
14794 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
14796 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
14797 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
14798 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
14801 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
14802 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
14803 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
14805 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
14806 from "overcaffeinated".
14807 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
14808 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
14811 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14812 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14813 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14814 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14815 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14818 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14819 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14820 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14822 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14823 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14824 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14825 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14826 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14827 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14828 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14830 o Minor features (geoip):
14831 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14835 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14836 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14837 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14838 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14841 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14842 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14843 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14845 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14846 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14848 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14849 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14850 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14852 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14853 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14854 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14857 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14858 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14859 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14860 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14861 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14862 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14863 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14864 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14865 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14867 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14868 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14869 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14870 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14871 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14872 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14873 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14874 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14875 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14876 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14877 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14878 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14879 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14881 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14882 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14883 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14884 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14885 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14887 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14888 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14889 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14891 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14892 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14893 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14894 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14895 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14896 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14897 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14900 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14901 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14902 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14903 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14904 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14905 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14906 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14908 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14909 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14910 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14911 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14914 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14915 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14916 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14917 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14919 o Minor features (geoip):
14920 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14924 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14925 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14926 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14927 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14930 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14931 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14932 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14934 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14935 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14937 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14938 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14939 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14941 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14942 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14943 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14946 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14947 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14948 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14949 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14950 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14951 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14952 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14953 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14954 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14956 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14957 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14958 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14959 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14960 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14961 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14962 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14963 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14964 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14966 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14967 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14968 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14969 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14970 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14972 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14973 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14974 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14975 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14976 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14979 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14980 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14981 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14982 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14983 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14985 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14986 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14987 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14989 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14990 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14991 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14992 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14993 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14994 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14997 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14998 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14999 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15000 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15001 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15002 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15003 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15006 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15007 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15008 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15009 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15010 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15011 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15012 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15014 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15015 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15016 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15017 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15020 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15021 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15022 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15023 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15025 o Minor features (geoip):
15026 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15029 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15030 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15031 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15034 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15035 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15036 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15037 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15040 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15041 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15042 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15044 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15045 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15047 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15048 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15049 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15051 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15052 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15053 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15056 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15057 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15058 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15059 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15060 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15061 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15062 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15063 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15064 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15066 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15067 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15068 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15069 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15070 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15071 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15072 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15073 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15074 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15076 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15077 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15078 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15079 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15080 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15082 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15083 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15084 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15085 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15086 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15089 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15090 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15091 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15092 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15093 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15095 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15096 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15097 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15099 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15100 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15101 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15102 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15103 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15104 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15107 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15108 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15109 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15110 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15111 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15112 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15113 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15116 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15117 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15118 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15119 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15120 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15121 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15122 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15124 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15125 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15126 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15127 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15130 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15131 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15132 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15133 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15135 o Minor features (geoip):
15136 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15140 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15141 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15143 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15144 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15145 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15146 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15147 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15148 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15150 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15151 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15152 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15156 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15157 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15158 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15159 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15162 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15163 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15164 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15166 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15167 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15169 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15170 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15171 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15173 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15174 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15175 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15178 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15179 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15180 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15181 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15182 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15183 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15184 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15185 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15186 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15188 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15189 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15190 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15191 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15192 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15193 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15194 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15195 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15196 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15198 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15199 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15200 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15201 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15202 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15205 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15206 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15207 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15208 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15209 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15211 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15212 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15213 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15215 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15216 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15217 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15218 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15219 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15220 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15223 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15224 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15225 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15226 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15227 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15228 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15229 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15232 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15233 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15234 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15235 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15236 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15237 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15238 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15240 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15241 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15242 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15243 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15246 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15247 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15248 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15249 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15251 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15252 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15253 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15254 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15256 o Minor features (geoip):
15257 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15260 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15261 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15262 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15264 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15265 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15266 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15270 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15271 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15272 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15273 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15275 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15276 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15277 least January of 2020.
15279 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15280 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15281 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15282 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15285 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15286 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15287 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15288 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15289 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15290 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15291 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15293 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15294 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15295 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15296 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15297 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15298 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15299 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15301 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15302 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15303 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15305 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15306 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15307 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15309 o Minor features (geoip):
15310 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15313 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15314 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15315 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15317 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15318 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15320 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15321 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15322 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15324 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15325 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15326 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15327 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15328 Patch by "junglefowl".
15331 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15332 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15333 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15334 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15335 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15336 version should upgrade.
15338 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15339 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15341 o Major bugfixes (security):
15342 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15343 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15344 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15345 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15346 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15347 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15349 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15350 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15351 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15352 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15353 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15354 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15355 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15356 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15357 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15358 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15359 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15361 o Minor features (geoip):
15362 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15365 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15366 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15367 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15368 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15370 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15371 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15374 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15375 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15376 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15377 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15378 become available for their systems.
15380 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15383 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15384 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15386 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15387 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15388 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15389 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15390 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15391 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15392 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15393 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15394 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15396 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15397 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15398 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15399 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15400 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15402 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15403 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15407 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15408 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15410 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15411 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15412 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15413 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15414 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15415 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15416 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15417 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15419 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15421 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15422 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15423 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15424 become available for their systems.
15426 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15427 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15429 o New system requirements:
15430 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15431 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15432 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15433 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15434 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15435 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15436 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15437 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15438 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15439 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15440 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15442 o Deprecated features:
15443 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15444 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15445 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15446 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15447 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15448 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15449 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15450 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15451 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15452 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15453 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15454 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15455 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15456 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15457 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15458 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15459 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15460 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15461 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15462 and TransListenAddress.
15464 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15465 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15466 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15467 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15468 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15469 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15470 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15471 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15472 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15474 o Major features (build, hardening):
15475 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15476 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15477 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15478 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15479 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15480 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15481 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15482 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15483 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15485 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15486 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15487 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15488 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15490 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15491 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15493 o Major features (compilation):
15494 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15495 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15496 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15497 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15499 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15500 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15501 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15503 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15504 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15505 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15506 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15507 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15508 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15509 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15510 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15512 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15513 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15514 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15515 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15516 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15517 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15518 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15520 o Major features (resource management):
15521 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15522 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15523 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15524 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15525 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15526 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15528 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15529 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15530 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15531 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15532 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15533 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15534 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15535 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15536 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15537 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15538 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15540 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15541 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15542 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15543 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15544 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15545 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15546 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15547 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15548 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15549 part of proposal 264.
15551 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15552 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15553 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15554 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15556 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15557 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15558 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15559 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15560 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15561 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15562 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15563 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15564 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15566 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15567 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15568 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15570 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15571 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15572 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15573 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15574 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15575 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15576 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15578 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15579 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15580 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15581 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15582 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15583 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15584 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15585 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15586 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15587 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15589 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15590 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15591 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15592 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15593 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15594 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15596 o Minor features (port flags):
15597 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15598 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15599 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15600 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15601 18693; patch by "teor".
15603 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15604 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15605 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15606 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15607 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15608 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15609 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15610 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15611 Closes ticket 18895.
15613 o Minor features (client, directory):
15614 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15615 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15616 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15619 o Minor features (code safety):
15620 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15621 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15622 patch from "U+039b".
15624 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15625 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15628 o Minor features (config):
15629 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15630 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15632 o Minor features (controller):
15633 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15634 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15635 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15636 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15637 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15638 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15639 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15640 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15642 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15643 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15644 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15647 o Minor features (directory authority):
15648 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15649 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15650 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15651 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15652 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15653 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15654 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15655 Implements ticket 18624.
15656 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15657 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15658 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15661 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15662 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15663 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15664 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15665 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15667 o Minor features (hidden service):
15668 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15669 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15670 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15673 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15674 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15675 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15676 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15677 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15678 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15679 Closes ticket 18365.
15680 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15681 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15682 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15683 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15685 o Minor features (logging):
15686 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15687 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15688 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15689 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15690 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15691 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15692 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15693 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15694 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15695 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15697 o Minor features (performance):
15698 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15699 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15700 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15701 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15702 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15703 Closes ticket 18815.
15705 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15706 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15707 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15708 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15709 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15712 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15713 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
15714 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15715 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15716 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15718 o Minor features (testing):
15719 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15720 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
15721 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
15722 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
15723 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
15724 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
15725 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
15726 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
15727 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
15728 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
15730 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
15731 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
15732 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
15733 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
15734 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
15735 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
15736 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
15738 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
15739 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
15740 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
15741 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
15742 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
15743 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
15744 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
15745 assertion as a test failure.
15746 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
15748 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
15749 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
15750 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
15751 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
15752 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
15753 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
15754 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
15755 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
15756 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
15758 o Minor features (Tor2web):
15759 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
15760 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
15761 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
15763 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15764 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
15765 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
15766 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
15767 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
15769 o Minor features (user interface):
15770 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
15771 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
15772 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
15773 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
15776 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
15777 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
15778 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
15779 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
15782 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
15783 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
15784 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
15785 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
15786 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
15787 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
15789 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15790 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15791 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15792 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15794 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
15795 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
15796 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
15797 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
15798 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
15800 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
15801 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
15802 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
15803 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
15804 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
15806 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15807 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
15808 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
15809 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
15810 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15812 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
15813 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
15814 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15816 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15817 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15818 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15820 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
15821 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
15822 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
15825 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
15826 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
15827 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15829 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15830 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
15831 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
15833 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
15834 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
15835 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15836 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
15837 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
15838 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
15839 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15840 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15842 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15843 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
15844 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
15845 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
15847 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15848 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
15849 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
15850 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15851 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
15852 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
15853 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
15854 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15855 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
15856 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
15858 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
15859 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
15860 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
15861 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15863 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
15864 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
15865 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
15866 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
15869 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
15870 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
15871 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
15872 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
15874 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
15875 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
15878 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15879 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
15880 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
15881 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
15883 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
15884 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
15886 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
15887 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
15888 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15889 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
15890 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
15892 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
15893 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
15894 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15896 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
15897 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
15898 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
15900 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15901 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
15902 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
15903 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
15904 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
15905 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15907 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15908 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15909 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15911 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
15912 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15913 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
15914 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
15915 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
15916 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
15917 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
15919 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15920 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
15921 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15922 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
15923 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15924 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15925 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15926 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15927 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15928 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15929 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15930 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15931 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15932 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
15933 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
15936 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
15937 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
15938 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
15939 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
15940 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
15941 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15943 o Minor bugfixes (options):
15944 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
15945 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
15947 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
15948 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
15949 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15952 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15953 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
15954 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15955 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
15956 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
15957 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15959 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15960 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
15961 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
15962 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
15963 patch from "cypherpunks".
15964 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
15965 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15966 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
15967 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15968 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
15969 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
15970 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
15971 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
15972 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15973 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
15974 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
15976 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15977 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15979 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
15980 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15981 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15982 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15983 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15986 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15987 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15988 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15989 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15990 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15991 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15992 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15994 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15995 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
15996 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15997 19678. Patch by teor.
15999 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16000 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16001 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16002 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16003 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16005 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16006 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16008 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16009 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16011 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16012 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16013 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16014 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16017 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16018 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16019 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16020 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16021 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16022 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16023 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16024 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16025 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16026 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16027 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16028 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16029 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16030 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16031 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16032 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16033 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16034 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16036 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16037 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16038 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16039 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16042 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16043 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16045 o Removed features:
16046 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16047 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16048 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16049 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16050 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16051 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16052 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16055 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16056 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16057 command-line options to enable them.
16058 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16059 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16062 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16063 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16064 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16065 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16068 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16069 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16070 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16071 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16072 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16073 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16076 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16077 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16078 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16081 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16082 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16083 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16084 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16086 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16087 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16088 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16089 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16092 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16093 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16094 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16095 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16098 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16099 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16100 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16103 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16104 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16105 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16107 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16108 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16109 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16111 o Minor features (geoip):
16112 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16116 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16117 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16118 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16119 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16120 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16123 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16124 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16125 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16126 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16127 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16128 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16129 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16130 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16131 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16133 o Minor features (geoip):
16134 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16138 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16139 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16140 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16141 who select public relays as their bridges.
16143 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16144 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16145 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16146 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16147 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16148 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16150 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16151 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16152 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16153 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16154 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16157 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16158 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16159 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16161 o Minor features (geoip):
16162 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16166 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16167 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16168 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16169 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16170 encouraged to upgrade.
16172 o Directory authority changes:
16173 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16174 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16176 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16177 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16178 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16179 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16180 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16181 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16183 o Minor features (geoip):
16184 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16188 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16189 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16192 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16193 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16194 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16195 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16198 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16200 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16202 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16203 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16204 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16205 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16206 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16207 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16209 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16211 o New system requirements:
16212 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16213 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16214 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16216 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16217 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16218 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16219 longer runs with, these versions.
16220 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16221 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16222 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16223 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16224 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16226 o Directory authority changes:
16227 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16228 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16230 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16232 o Major features (directory system):
16233 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16234 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16235 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16236 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16237 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16238 gsathya, and karsten.
16239 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16240 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16241 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16242 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16243 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16245 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16246 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16247 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16248 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16249 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16250 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16251 mikeperry and teor.
16253 o Major features (security, Linux):
16254 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16255 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16256 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16257 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16258 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16260 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16261 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16262 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16263 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16264 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16265 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16266 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16268 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16269 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16272 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16273 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16274 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16276 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16277 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16278 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16279 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16280 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16282 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16283 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16284 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16285 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16286 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16287 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16288 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16289 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16290 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16291 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16293 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16294 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16295 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16296 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16297 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16298 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16299 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16302 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16303 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16304 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16305 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16306 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16308 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16309 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16310 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16311 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16312 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16313 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16314 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16315 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16316 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16318 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16319 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16320 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16321 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16322 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16324 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16325 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16326 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16328 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16329 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16330 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16331 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16333 o Minor features (accounting):
16334 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16335 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16336 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16337 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16339 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16340 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16341 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16342 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16343 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16344 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16345 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16348 o Minor features (build):
16349 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16350 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16351 Steven Chamberlain.
16352 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16353 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16354 patch from "cypherpunks".
16355 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16356 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16357 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16358 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16359 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16360 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16361 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16362 Patch from intrigeri.
16364 o Minor features (clients):
16365 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16366 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16367 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16369 o Minor features (controller):
16370 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16371 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16372 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16374 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16375 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16376 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16377 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16378 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16380 o Minor features (crypto):
16381 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16382 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16384 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16385 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16386 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16387 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16388 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16390 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16391 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16392 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16393 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16395 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16396 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16397 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16398 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16399 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16400 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16401 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16402 17864; patch by teor.
16404 o Minor features (geoip):
16405 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16408 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16409 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16410 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16411 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16412 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16414 o Minor features (IPv6):
16415 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16416 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16417 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16418 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16419 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16420 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16421 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16422 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16423 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16424 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16425 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16426 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16428 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16429 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16430 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16431 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16432 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16433 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16434 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16435 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16436 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16437 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16439 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16440 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16441 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16442 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16443 while fixing 18548.
16445 o Minor features (logging):
16446 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16447 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16448 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16449 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16452 o Minor features (portability):
16453 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16454 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16456 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16457 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16458 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16459 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16460 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16462 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16463 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16464 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16465 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16466 Resolves ticket 17951.
16468 o Minor features (replay cache):
16469 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16470 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16472 o Minor features (robustness):
16473 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16474 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16475 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16477 o Minor features (security, clock):
16478 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16479 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16480 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16481 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16483 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16484 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16485 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16486 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16487 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16488 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16490 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16491 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16492 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16493 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16495 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16496 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16497 Implements ticket 17026.
16498 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16499 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16500 Implements feature 17986.
16501 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16502 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16503 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16505 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16506 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16507 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16508 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16509 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16510 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16511 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16512 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16513 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16514 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16515 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16518 o Minor features (security, win32):
16519 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16520 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16523 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16524 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16525 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16526 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16527 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16528 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16529 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16532 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16533 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16534 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16535 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16536 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16537 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16538 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16539 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16540 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16541 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16542 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16543 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16544 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16545 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16547 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16548 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16549 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16550 from "unixninja92".
16552 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16553 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16554 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16557 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16558 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16559 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16561 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16562 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16563 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16564 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16565 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16566 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16568 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16569 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16571 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16572 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16573 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16574 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16575 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16577 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16578 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16579 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16580 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16581 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16582 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16584 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16585 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16586 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16587 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16588 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16589 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16590 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16591 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16592 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16593 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16594 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16596 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16597 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16600 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16601 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16602 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16603 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16604 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16606 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16607 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16608 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16609 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16610 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16611 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16612 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16613 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16615 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16617 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16618 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16619 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16621 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16622 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16623 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16625 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16626 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16627 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16629 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16630 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16631 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16632 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16634 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16635 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16636 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16637 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16638 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16640 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16641 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16642 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16644 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16645 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16646 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16647 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16648 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16649 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16650 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16651 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16652 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16654 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16655 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16656 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16657 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16660 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16661 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16662 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16663 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16664 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16666 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16667 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16668 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16669 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16670 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16671 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16672 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16673 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16675 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16676 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16677 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16678 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16679 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16680 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16681 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16682 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16683 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16686 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16687 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16688 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16689 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16691 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16692 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16693 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16695 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16696 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16697 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16699 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16700 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16701 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16702 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16703 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16704 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16705 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16706 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16707 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16708 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16709 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16710 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16711 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16712 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16713 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16714 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16715 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16716 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16717 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16719 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16720 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
16721 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
16722 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
16723 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
16725 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
16726 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16727 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
16728 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
16729 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
16730 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
16731 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16732 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
16733 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
16734 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16735 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
16736 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
16739 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
16740 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
16741 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
16742 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
16744 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
16745 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16746 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
16749 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16750 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
16751 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
16752 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16754 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
16755 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
16756 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
16757 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
16758 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
16759 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
16762 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
16763 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
16764 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
16765 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
16767 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16768 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
16769 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
16770 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
16771 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
16772 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
16773 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
16774 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
16775 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16777 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
16778 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
16779 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
16780 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
16781 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
16783 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
16784 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
16785 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
16786 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
16788 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16789 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
16790 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
16791 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16792 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
16793 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
16794 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
16795 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
16797 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
16798 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16800 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
16801 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
16802 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
16805 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16806 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
16807 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
16808 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
16810 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
16811 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
16812 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16813 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
16814 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
16815 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16816 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
16817 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
16818 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
16819 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
16820 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16821 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
16822 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
16823 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
16824 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
16825 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16827 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
16828 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
16829 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
16830 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16831 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
16832 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
16833 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
16835 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
16836 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
16837 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
16838 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
16840 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16841 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
16842 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
16844 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
16845 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
16846 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
16847 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
16849 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
16850 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
16851 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
16852 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
16853 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
16854 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
16855 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
16856 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
16857 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
16858 17744. Patch from zerosion.
16859 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
16860 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
16861 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
16862 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
16863 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
16864 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
16865 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
16866 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
16867 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
16868 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
16869 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
16870 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
16874 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
16875 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
16876 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
16877 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
16878 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
16879 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
16880 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
16881 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
16882 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
16883 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
16884 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
16885 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
16887 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
16888 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
16890 o Removed features:
16891 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
16892 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
16893 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
16894 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
16895 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
16896 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
16897 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
16898 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
16901 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
16902 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
16903 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
16904 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
16905 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
16906 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
16907 portion of ticket 16831.
16908 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
16910 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
16911 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16912 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
16913 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
16914 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
16916 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
16917 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
16918 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
16919 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
16922 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
16923 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
16924 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
16926 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16927 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16928 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16929 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16930 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16931 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16934 o Minor features (geoip):
16935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16938 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16939 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
16940 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
16941 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
16942 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16943 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16945 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16946 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
16947 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
16948 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
16949 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
16950 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
16951 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
16952 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16953 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
16954 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16957 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
16958 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
16959 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
16960 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
16961 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
16962 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
16963 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
16964 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
16965 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
16966 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
16967 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
16968 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
16969 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
16970 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
16971 that would make him proud.
16973 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
16975 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
16976 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
16977 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
16978 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
16979 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
16980 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16981 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
16983 o New system requirements:
16984 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16985 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16987 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16988 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16989 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16990 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16991 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16992 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16993 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16994 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16995 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16996 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16997 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16998 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16999 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17001 o Major features (controller):
17002 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17003 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17005 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17006 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17007 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17008 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17009 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17010 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17011 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17013 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17014 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17015 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17016 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17017 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17018 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17019 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17020 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17021 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17022 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17023 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17024 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17025 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17026 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17027 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17028 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17029 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17030 part of ticket 12498.
17031 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17032 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17034 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17035 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17036 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17037 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17038 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17039 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17040 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17041 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17042 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17045 o Major features (ECC performance):
17046 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17047 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17049 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17050 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17051 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17052 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17053 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17054 Implements ticket 16467.
17055 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17056 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17057 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17058 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17060 o Major features (Hidden services):
17061 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17062 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17063 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17064 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17065 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17066 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17067 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17068 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17069 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17070 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17071 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17072 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17074 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17075 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17076 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17077 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17079 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17080 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17081 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17082 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17083 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17084 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17086 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17087 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17088 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17089 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17090 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17091 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17093 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17094 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17095 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17096 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17097 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17098 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17099 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17100 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17103 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17104 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17105 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17106 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17108 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17109 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17110 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17111 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17112 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17113 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17116 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17117 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17118 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17120 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17121 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17122 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17123 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17124 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17125 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17127 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17128 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17129 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17130 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17131 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17134 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17135 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17136 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17137 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17138 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17139 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17140 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17141 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17144 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17145 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17146 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17147 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17149 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17150 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17151 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17152 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17153 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17154 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17155 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17158 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17159 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17160 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17161 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17162 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17163 own. Implements feature 15482.
17164 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17165 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17167 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17168 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17169 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17170 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17171 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17173 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17174 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17175 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17176 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17177 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17179 o Minor features (compilation):
17180 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17181 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17182 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17183 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17184 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17186 o Minor features (control protocol):
17187 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17188 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17190 o Minor features (controller):
17191 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17192 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17193 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17194 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17195 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17196 Closes ticket 14845.
17197 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17198 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17199 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17201 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17202 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17203 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17204 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17205 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17206 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17208 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17209 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17210 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17211 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17212 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17213 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17214 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17216 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17217 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17218 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17219 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17221 o Minor features (geoip):
17222 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17225 o Minor features (hidden services):
17226 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17227 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17228 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17229 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17231 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17232 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17233 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17235 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17236 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17237 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17238 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17239 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17240 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17241 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17242 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17244 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17245 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17246 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17247 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17248 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17249 Closes ticket 15745.
17251 o Minor features (logging):
17252 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17253 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17256 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17257 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17258 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17259 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17261 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17262 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17263 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17264 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17265 Resolves ticket 15435.
17267 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17268 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17269 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17270 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17271 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17272 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17273 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17274 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17275 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17276 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17277 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17278 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17279 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17280 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17281 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17282 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17283 Related to ticket 16069.
17285 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17286 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17287 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17289 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17290 stderr, not stdout.
17291 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17292 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17293 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17297 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17298 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17299 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17300 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17302 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17303 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17304 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17305 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17307 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17308 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17309 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17310 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17311 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17312 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17313 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17314 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17316 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17317 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17318 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17319 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17321 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17322 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17323 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17325 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17326 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17327 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17329 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17330 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17331 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17332 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17334 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17335 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17336 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17337 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17338 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17339 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17341 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17342 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17343 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17345 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17346 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17348 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17349 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17350 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17351 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17352 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17353 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17354 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17355 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17357 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17358 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17359 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17360 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17362 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17363 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17364 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17366 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17367 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17368 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17371 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17372 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17373 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17374 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17375 recent enough Clang.
17377 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17378 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17379 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17380 unsuitable for public communications.
17382 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17383 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17384 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17385 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17387 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17388 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17389 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17390 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17391 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17393 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17394 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17396 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17397 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17398 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17399 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17400 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17402 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17403 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17404 from "cypherpunks".
17405 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17406 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17409 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17410 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17411 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17412 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17413 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17415 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17416 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17417 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17418 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17419 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17420 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17422 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17423 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17424 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17425 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17427 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17428 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17429 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17430 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17431 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17432 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17433 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17434 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17436 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17437 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17438 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17440 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17441 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17442 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17443 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17444 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17445 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17446 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17447 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17448 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17449 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17450 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17451 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17452 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17454 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17455 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17456 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17457 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17458 haven't supported that in ages.
17459 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17460 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17461 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17462 suite of other microdesc functions.
17463 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17464 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17465 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17466 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17467 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17468 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17469 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17470 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17471 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17472 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17473 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17474 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17475 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17476 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17477 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17478 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17480 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17481 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17485 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17486 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17487 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17489 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17490 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17491 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17492 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17493 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17494 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17495 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17496 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17497 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17498 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17500 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17502 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17503 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17504 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17505 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17506 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17507 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17508 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17509 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17510 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17511 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17512 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17513 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17514 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17516 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17517 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17520 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17521 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17522 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17523 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17524 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17525 Closes ticket 14922.
17526 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17527 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17528 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17529 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17530 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17531 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17532 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17533 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17534 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17535 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17536 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17537 Closes ticket 13338.
17539 o Removed features:
17540 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17541 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17542 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17543 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17544 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17545 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17546 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17547 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17548 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17549 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17550 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17551 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17552 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17553 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17554 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17557 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17558 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17559 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17560 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17561 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17562 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17563 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17564 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17565 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17566 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17567 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17569 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17570 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17571 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17572 Closes ticket 15817.
17573 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17574 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17575 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17576 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17577 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17578 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17579 network before we begin.
17580 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17581 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17582 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17583 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17584 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17585 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17587 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17588 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17590 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17591 default as a part of "make check".
17592 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17593 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17594 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17595 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17596 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17597 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17598 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17599 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17600 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17601 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17602 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17603 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17604 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17605 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17606 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17607 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17608 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17609 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17610 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17611 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17612 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17613 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17614 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17615 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17616 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17617 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17618 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17619 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17620 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17621 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17622 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17624 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17625 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17626 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17627 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17628 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17630 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17631 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17632 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17633 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17634 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17635 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17637 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17638 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17639 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17640 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17641 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17642 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17643 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17644 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17647 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17648 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17649 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17650 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17651 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17652 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17653 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17654 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17657 o Minor features (geoip):
17658 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17659 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17661 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17662 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17663 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17664 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17665 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17666 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17668 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17669 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17670 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17671 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17674 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17675 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17676 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17677 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17678 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17680 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17681 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17682 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17683 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17684 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17687 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17688 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17689 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17690 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17691 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17692 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17693 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17696 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17697 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17698 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17700 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17701 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17702 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17703 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17704 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17705 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17708 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17709 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17710 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17713 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17714 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17715 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17716 authorities should upgrade.
17718 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17719 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17720 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17721 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17724 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17725 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17726 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17729 o Minor features (geoip):
17730 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17731 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17735 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
17736 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
17737 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
17738 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
17739 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17741 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
17742 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17744 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17745 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17746 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17747 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17748 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17749 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17750 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17752 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17753 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17754 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17755 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17756 Resolves ticket 15515.
17757 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
17758 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
17759 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
17763 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
17764 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17765 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17766 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17767 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17769 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17770 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17772 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17773 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17774 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17775 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17776 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17777 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17778 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17780 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17781 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17782 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17783 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17784 Resolves ticket 15515.
17787 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
17788 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17789 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17790 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17791 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17793 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17794 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17796 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17797 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17798 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17799 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17800 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17801 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17802 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17804 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17805 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17806 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17807 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17808 Resolves ticket 15515.
17811 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
17812 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
17814 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
17815 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
17816 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
17817 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
17818 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
17819 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
17820 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
17821 bugs should be addressed.
17823 o New compiler and system requirements:
17824 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17825 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17826 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17827 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17829 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17830 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17831 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17832 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17833 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17834 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17835 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17836 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17837 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17839 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
17840 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17841 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17842 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17843 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17844 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17845 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17847 o Directory authority changes:
17848 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17849 closes ticket 14487.
17850 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17851 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17852 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17854 o Major features (bridges):
17855 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17856 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17857 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17860 o Major features (changed defaults):
17861 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17862 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17863 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17864 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17865 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17866 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17868 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17869 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17870 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17871 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17874 o Major features (directory system):
17875 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17876 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17877 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17878 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17879 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17880 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17881 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17882 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17883 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17884 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17885 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17886 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17887 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17888 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17889 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17890 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17892 o Major features (guards):
17893 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17894 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17895 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17896 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17897 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17899 o Major features (hidden services):
17900 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17901 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17902 Closes ticket 13667.
17903 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17904 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17905 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17906 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17907 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17908 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17909 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17910 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17911 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17912 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17913 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17915 o Major features (performance):
17916 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17917 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17918 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17919 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17920 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17921 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17922 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17923 Implements ticket 9682.
17925 o Major features (relay):
17926 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17927 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17928 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17929 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17930 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17931 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17932 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17933 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17935 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17936 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17937 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17938 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17939 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17940 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17941 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17944 o Major features (sample torrc):
17945 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17946 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17947 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17948 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17949 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17950 generally useful "sample torrc".
17952 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17953 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17954 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17955 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17956 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17957 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17959 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17960 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17961 Implements ticket 11485.
17963 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17964 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17965 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17966 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17967 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17968 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17971 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17972 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17973 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17976 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17977 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17978 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17980 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17981 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17982 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17983 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17984 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17986 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17987 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17988 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17989 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17991 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17992 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17993 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17996 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17997 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17998 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17999 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18000 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18001 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18003 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18004 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18005 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18006 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18008 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18009 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18010 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18011 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18012 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18013 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18014 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18016 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18017 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18018 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18019 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18020 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18021 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18023 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18024 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18025 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18026 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18027 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18028 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18029 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18030 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18032 o Minor features (build):
18033 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18034 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18035 Resolves ticket 13037.
18037 o Minor features (client):
18038 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18039 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18040 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18041 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18043 o Minor features (client):
18044 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18045 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18046 Resolves ticket 13315.
18048 o Minor features (controller):
18049 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18050 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18052 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18053 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18055 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18056 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18057 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18058 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18059 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18060 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18061 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18062 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18063 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18065 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18066 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18067 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18068 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18069 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18070 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18071 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18072 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18073 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18074 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18076 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18077 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18078 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18079 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18080 argument more than once.
18081 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18082 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18083 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18084 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18085 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18086 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18088 o Minor features (geoip):
18089 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18090 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18093 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18094 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18095 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18096 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18098 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18099 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18100 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18101 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18102 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18104 o Minor features (hidden service):
18105 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18106 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18107 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18108 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18109 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18110 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18111 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18112 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18113 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18114 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18115 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18116 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18117 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18118 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18120 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18121 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18122 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18124 o Minor features (interface):
18125 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18126 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18127 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18129 o Minor features (logging):
18130 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18131 Resolves ticket 6852.
18132 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18133 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18134 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18136 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18137 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18138 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18139 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18140 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18141 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18142 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18143 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18144 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18145 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18146 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18147 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18150 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18151 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18152 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18153 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18155 o Minor features (relay):
18156 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18157 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18158 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18160 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18161 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18162 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18163 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18164 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18165 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18166 document. Implements feature 10427.
18168 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18169 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18170 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18171 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18173 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18174 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18175 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18176 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18177 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18178 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18180 o Minor features (stability):
18181 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18182 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18185 o Minor features (systemd):
18186 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18187 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18188 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18189 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18190 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18191 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18193 o Minor features (testing networks):
18194 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18195 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18196 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18197 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18198 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18200 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18201 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18202 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18203 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18204 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18205 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18207 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18208 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18209 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18210 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18211 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18213 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18214 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18215 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18216 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18217 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18219 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18220 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18221 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18222 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18223 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18226 o Minor features (validation):
18227 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18228 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18229 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18230 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18231 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18232 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18233 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18234 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18235 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18236 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18237 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18240 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18241 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18242 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18243 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18245 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18246 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18247 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18248 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18250 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18251 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18252 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18254 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18255 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18256 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18258 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18259 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18260 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18261 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18262 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18263 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18264 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18266 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18267 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18268 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18269 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18270 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18271 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18272 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18273 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18274 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18276 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18277 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18278 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18279 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18280 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18281 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18282 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18283 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18284 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18286 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18287 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18288 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18289 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18290 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18291 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18292 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18293 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18295 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18296 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18297 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18300 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18301 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18302 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18303 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18304 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18306 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18307 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18308 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18309 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18310 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18311 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18312 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18313 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18315 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18316 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18317 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18318 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18319 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18321 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18322 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18323 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18324 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18325 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18327 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18328 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18329 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18331 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18332 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18333 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18334 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18335 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18337 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18338 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18339 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18342 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18344 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18345 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18346 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18347 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18349 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18350 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18352 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18353 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18354 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18355 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18356 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18357 Addresses ticket 14188.
18358 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18359 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18360 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18361 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18362 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18363 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18364 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18365 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18366 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18367 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18368 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18371 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18372 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18373 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18374 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18375 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18376 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18378 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18379 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18380 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18381 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18382 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18384 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18385 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18386 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18387 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18388 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18389 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18390 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18391 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18392 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18393 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18394 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18395 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18396 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18397 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18398 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18399 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18401 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18402 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18403 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18404 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18405 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18406 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18407 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18408 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18411 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18412 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18413 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18414 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18415 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18416 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18417 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18418 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18419 state, and key files.
18420 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18421 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18424 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18425 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18426 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18427 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18428 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18429 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18430 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18431 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18432 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18433 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18434 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18435 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18436 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18437 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18438 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18439 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18440 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18441 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18444 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18445 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18446 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18447 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18448 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18449 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18450 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18451 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18452 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18453 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18455 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18456 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18457 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18458 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18459 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18460 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18462 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18463 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18465 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18466 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18467 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18468 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18469 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18471 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18472 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18473 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18474 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18475 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18476 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18478 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18479 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18480 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18482 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18483 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18484 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18486 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18487 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18488 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18489 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18490 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18492 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18493 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18494 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18497 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18498 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18499 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18500 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18501 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18504 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18505 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18506 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18507 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18510 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18511 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18512 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18515 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18516 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18517 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18519 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18520 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18521 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18522 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18523 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18526 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18527 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18528 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18529 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18530 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18531 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18533 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18534 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18535 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18536 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18537 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18538 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18540 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18541 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18542 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18543 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18544 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18545 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18546 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18547 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18548 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18549 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18550 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18551 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18552 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18553 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18554 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18555 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18556 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18557 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18558 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18559 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18560 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18561 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18562 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18563 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18564 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18565 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18566 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18567 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18568 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18569 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18570 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18571 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18573 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18574 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18575 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18576 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18577 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18579 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18580 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18581 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18582 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18583 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18584 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18585 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18586 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18587 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18589 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18590 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18591 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18593 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18594 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18595 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18598 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18599 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18600 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18601 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18604 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18605 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18606 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18608 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18609 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18610 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18612 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18613 Resolves ticket 12205.
18614 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18615 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18616 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18617 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18619 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18620 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18621 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18623 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18624 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18626 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18627 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18628 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18629 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18630 or_options_t structure.
18631 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18632 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18633 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18634 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18635 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18636 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18637 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18638 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18640 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18641 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18643 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18645 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18646 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18647 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18648 with a function instead.
18649 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18650 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18651 Closes ticket 13172.
18652 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18653 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18654 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18655 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18656 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18657 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18658 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18659 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18660 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18661 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18662 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18663 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18667 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18668 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18669 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18670 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18672 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18673 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18674 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18675 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18676 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18677 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18678 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18679 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18680 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18681 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18682 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18683 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18684 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18685 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18686 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18687 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18688 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18689 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18691 o Distribution (systemd):
18692 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18693 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18694 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18695 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18696 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18698 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18699 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18701 o Downgraded warnings:
18702 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18703 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18706 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18707 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18708 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18711 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18712 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18713 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18714 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18715 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18716 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18717 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18718 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18719 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18720 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18722 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18723 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18724 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18725 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18728 o Removed features:
18729 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
18730 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
18731 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
18732 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
18733 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
18735 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18736 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18737 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18738 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18739 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18740 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18741 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18742 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18743 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18745 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18746 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18748 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18749 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18750 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18751 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18752 anymore, and ignore it.
18754 o Removed platform support:
18755 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
18756 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
18757 Closes ticket 11446.
18759 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18760 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18761 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18763 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18765 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18766 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18767 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18770 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
18771 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
18772 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
18773 (existing behavior).
18774 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
18775 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
18776 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
18777 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
18778 Closes ticket 14107.
18779 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
18780 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18781 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
18782 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
18784 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
18785 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
18786 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
18787 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
18788 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
18789 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
18791 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
18793 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18794 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18795 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18796 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18797 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18798 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18799 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18800 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18801 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18802 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18803 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18804 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18806 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18807 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18808 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18810 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
18811 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18813 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
18814 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
18815 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
18817 o Directory authority changes:
18818 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18819 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18820 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18821 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18822 closes ticket 14487.
18824 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18825 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18826 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18829 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18830 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18831 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18832 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18833 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18834 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18835 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18836 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18838 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18839 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18840 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18841 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18843 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18844 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18845 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18846 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18848 o Minor features (controller):
18849 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18850 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18851 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18853 o Minor features (geoip):
18854 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18855 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18858 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18859 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18860 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18861 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18862 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18863 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18865 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18866 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18867 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18868 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18870 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18871 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18872 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18873 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18874 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18875 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18876 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18877 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18879 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18880 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18881 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18883 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18884 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18885 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18886 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18887 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18891 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
18892 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
18893 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
18896 o Directory authority changes:
18897 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18898 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18899 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18900 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18901 closes ticket 14487.
18903 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
18904 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18905 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18906 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18908 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
18909 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18910 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18911 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18912 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18913 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18914 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18915 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18917 o Minor features (geoip):
18918 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18919 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18922 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18923 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18925 It adds several new security features, including improved
18926 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18927 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18928 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18929 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18930 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18931 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18932 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18933 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18934 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18935 and features mentioned below.
18937 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18938 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18940 o Major features (security):
18941 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
18942 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
18943 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
18944 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
18945 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
18946 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18947 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18948 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18949 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18950 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18952 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
18953 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
18954 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
18955 streams attached to each circuit.
18957 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
18958 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
18959 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
18960 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
18961 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
18962 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
18963 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
18964 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
18965 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
18966 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
18967 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
18968 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
18969 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
18971 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18972 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18973 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18974 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18976 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
18977 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
18978 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
18979 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
18980 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
18981 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
18983 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
18984 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
18985 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
18986 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
18987 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
18988 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
18989 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
18990 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
18993 o Major features (controller):
18994 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
18995 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
18996 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
18997 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
18998 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
18999 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19001 o Major features (relay performance):
19002 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19003 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19004 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19005 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19006 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19007 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19008 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19009 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19010 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19011 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19013 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19014 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19015 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19016 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19017 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19018 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19019 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19020 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19021 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19022 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19024 o Major features (testing networks):
19025 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19026 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19027 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19028 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19029 Implements ticket 8530.
19031 o Major features (other):
19032 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19033 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19034 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19035 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19036 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19037 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19039 o Deprecated versions:
19040 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19041 attention for some while.
19043 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19044 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19045 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19047 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19048 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19049 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19050 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19051 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19052 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19053 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19054 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19055 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19056 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19057 router's identity is not forgeable.
19059 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19060 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19061 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19062 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19064 o Major bugfixes (client):
19065 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19066 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19067 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19068 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19069 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19070 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19071 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19072 to build circuits".
19074 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19075 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19076 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19077 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19080 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19081 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19082 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19083 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19084 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19085 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19086 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19088 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19089 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19090 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19091 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19092 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19093 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19094 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19095 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19096 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19097 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19098 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19099 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19100 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19101 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19102 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19103 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19104 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19106 o Minor features (security):
19107 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19108 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19109 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19110 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19112 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19113 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19114 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19115 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19116 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19117 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19118 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19120 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19121 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19122 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19123 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19124 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19125 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19126 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19128 o Minor features (bridge client):
19129 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19130 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19131 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19133 o Minor features (bridge):
19134 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19135 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19137 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19138 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19139 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19140 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19141 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19142 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19143 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19144 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19145 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19146 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19147 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19148 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19149 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19150 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19151 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19153 o Minor features (build):
19154 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19155 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19156 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19157 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19158 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19159 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19160 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19161 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19162 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19163 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19164 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19165 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19166 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19167 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19168 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19171 o Minor features (client):
19172 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19173 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19174 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19175 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19177 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19178 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19179 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19180 Implements ticket 10060.
19181 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19182 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19183 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19185 o Minor features (config options):
19186 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19187 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19188 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19189 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19190 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19191 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19192 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19193 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19194 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19195 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19196 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19197 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19198 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19199 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19200 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19201 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19202 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19205 o Minor features (controller):
19206 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19207 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19209 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19210 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19211 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19212 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19213 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19214 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19215 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19216 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19218 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19219 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19220 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19222 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19223 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19224 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19225 help diagnose bug 7164.
19226 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19227 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19228 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19229 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19230 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19232 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19233 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19234 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19235 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19236 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19237 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19238 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19239 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19240 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19241 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19242 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19243 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19244 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19245 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19246 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19248 o Minor features (geoip):
19249 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19252 o Minor features (interface):
19253 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19254 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19255 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19256 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19258 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19259 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19260 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19262 o Minor features (log messages):
19263 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19264 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19265 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19266 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19267 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19268 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19269 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19270 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19272 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19273 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19274 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19275 Resolves ticket 5286.
19276 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19277 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19278 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19279 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19280 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19281 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19283 o Minor features (performance):
19284 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19285 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19286 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19287 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19288 Closes ticket 8109.
19290 o Minor features (relay):
19291 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19292 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19293 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19295 o Minor features (testing):
19296 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19297 the unit test scripts.
19298 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19299 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19300 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19301 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19303 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19304 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19305 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19306 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19307 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19308 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19309 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19310 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19311 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19312 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19314 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19315 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19316 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19317 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19319 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19320 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19321 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19322 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19323 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19324 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19325 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19326 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19327 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19328 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19330 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19331 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19332 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19334 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19335 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19336 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19337 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19338 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19340 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19341 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19342 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19343 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19344 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19345 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19346 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19347 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19348 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19349 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19350 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19351 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19353 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19354 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19355 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19356 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19357 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19358 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19359 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19360 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19361 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19362 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19363 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19364 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19366 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19367 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19368 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19369 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19371 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19372 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19373 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19374 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19377 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19378 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19379 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19380 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19381 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19382 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19385 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19386 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19387 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19388 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19389 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19391 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19392 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19393 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19396 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19397 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19398 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19399 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19400 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19401 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19402 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19403 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19404 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19405 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19407 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19408 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19409 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19410 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19411 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19413 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19414 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19416 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19417 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19418 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19419 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19420 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19421 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19422 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19423 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19424 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19425 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19426 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19427 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19428 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19430 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19431 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19432 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19433 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19434 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19435 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19436 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19437 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19438 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19439 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19440 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19441 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19442 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19444 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19445 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19446 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19448 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19449 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19450 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19451 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19452 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19453 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19455 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19456 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19457 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19458 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19459 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19460 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19461 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19462 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19463 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19464 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19466 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19467 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19468 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19470 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19471 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19472 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19473 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19474 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19476 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19477 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19478 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19479 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19480 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19481 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19482 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19483 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19484 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19485 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19486 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19487 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19488 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19489 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19491 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19492 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19493 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19494 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19495 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19496 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19497 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19498 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19499 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19501 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19502 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19503 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19504 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19505 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19506 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19507 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19509 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19510 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19512 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19513 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19514 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19515 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19517 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19518 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19519 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19520 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19521 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19522 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19523 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19524 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19525 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19526 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19527 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19528 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19529 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19530 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19531 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19532 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19533 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19535 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19536 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19537 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19538 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19539 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19540 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19541 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19542 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19545 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19546 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19547 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19548 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19549 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19550 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19551 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19552 Reported by "mr-4".
19553 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19554 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19555 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19556 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19558 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19559 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19560 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19561 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19562 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19563 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19564 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19565 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19566 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19567 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19568 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19569 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19571 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19572 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19573 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19575 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19576 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19577 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19579 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19580 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19581 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19582 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19585 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19586 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19587 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19588 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19591 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19592 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19593 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19594 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19596 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19597 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19598 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19600 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19601 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19602 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19603 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19604 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19605 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19606 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19607 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19610 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19611 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19612 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19613 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19614 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19615 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19616 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19617 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19618 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19619 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19620 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19622 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19623 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19624 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19625 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19626 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19628 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19629 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19630 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19631 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19634 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19635 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19636 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19637 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19638 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19639 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19640 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19642 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19643 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19644 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19645 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19646 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19647 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19648 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19649 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19650 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19651 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19652 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19653 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19654 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19655 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19656 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19657 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19658 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19659 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19660 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19661 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19662 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19663 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19664 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19665 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19667 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19668 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19669 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19670 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19671 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19672 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19673 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19674 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19675 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19677 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19678 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19681 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19682 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19684 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19686 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19687 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19688 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19689 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19690 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19691 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19693 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19694 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19696 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19697 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19698 caches don't get confused.
19699 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19700 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19701 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19702 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19703 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19704 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19705 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19706 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19707 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19708 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19709 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19710 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19711 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19712 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19713 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19714 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19715 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19716 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19719 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19720 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
19721 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
19722 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
19723 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
19725 o Removed code and features:
19726 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19727 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19728 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19729 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19730 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19731 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19733 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19734 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19735 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19736 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19737 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19738 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19739 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
19740 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
19741 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
19742 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
19743 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
19744 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
19746 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19747 Resolves ticket 11070.
19748 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19749 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19750 the rest of bug 10841.
19751 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
19752 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
19753 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
19754 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
19756 o Test infrastructure:
19757 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
19758 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
19759 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
19760 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
19761 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
19762 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
19763 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
19764 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
19765 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
19766 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
19768 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19769 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19770 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19771 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19772 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19773 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19774 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
19775 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
19776 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
19777 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
19778 invoking the other functions it calls.
19781 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19782 Patch from Dana Koch.
19783 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
19784 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
19785 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
19786 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
19788 o Distribution (systemd):
19789 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
19790 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
19791 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
19792 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
19793 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
19794 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
19795 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
19796 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
19797 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
19798 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
19799 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
19800 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
19801 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19805 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
19806 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
19807 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
19808 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
19809 (which does affect Tor).
19811 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19812 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19813 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19814 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19816 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19817 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19818 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
19819 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19822 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
19823 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
19824 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
19825 the directory authorities.
19828 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
19829 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
19830 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
19831 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
19832 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
19833 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
19834 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
19835 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
19836 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
19837 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
19838 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
19839 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19841 o Directory authority changes:
19842 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19844 o Minor features (geoip):
19845 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19849 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
19850 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
19851 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
19852 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
19855 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19856 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19857 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19858 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19859 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19860 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19861 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
19862 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
19863 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
19864 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
19867 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
19868 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
19869 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
19870 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
19871 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
19872 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
19873 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
19874 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
19878 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
19879 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
19880 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
19881 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
19882 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
19883 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
19884 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
19885 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
19886 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19887 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
19888 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
19889 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
19890 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
19893 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19897 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
19898 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
19899 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
19900 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
19901 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
19902 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
19903 of RAM, and several others.
19905 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19906 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19907 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19908 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19909 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19911 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
19912 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
19913 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
19914 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
19917 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19918 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19919 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19920 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19921 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19922 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19923 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19924 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19925 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19926 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19927 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19928 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19929 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19930 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19931 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19932 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19933 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19934 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19935 Resolves ticket 11438.
19937 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
19938 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
19939 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
19940 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19941 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19942 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19944 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19945 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19946 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19948 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19949 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19950 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19952 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19953 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19954 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19955 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19957 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19958 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19959 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19962 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
19963 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19966 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
19967 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
19968 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
19969 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
19972 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19973 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19974 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19975 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19977 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19978 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
19979 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
19980 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19982 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19983 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19984 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19988 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19989 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19990 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19991 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19993 o Major features (client security):
19994 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19995 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19996 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19997 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19998 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19999 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20002 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20003 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20004 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20005 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20007 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20008 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20009 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20010 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20011 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20014 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20015 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20017 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20018 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20019 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20020 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20021 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20022 GeoLite2 Country database.
20025 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20026 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20027 bugfix on every released Tor.
20028 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20029 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20030 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20031 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20032 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20033 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20034 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20035 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20036 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20037 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20038 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20039 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20040 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20041 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20042 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20044 o Documentation fixes:
20045 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20046 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20049 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20050 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20051 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20052 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20053 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20054 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20055 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20057 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20058 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20061 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20062 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20063 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20064 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20065 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20066 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20067 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20068 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20070 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20071 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20072 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20073 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20074 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20075 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20078 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20079 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20080 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20081 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20082 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20085 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20086 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20087 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20088 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20089 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20090 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20091 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20092 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20094 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20095 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20096 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20097 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20098 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20099 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20100 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20101 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20102 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20103 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20104 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20105 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20106 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20107 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20108 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20109 security, and privacy fixes.
20111 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20112 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20113 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20114 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20115 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20116 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20117 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20118 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20119 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20120 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20121 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20123 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20124 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20125 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20127 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20129 o Major features (better link encryption):
20130 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20131 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20132 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20133 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20134 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20135 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20138 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20139 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20140 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20141 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20143 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20145 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20146 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20147 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20148 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20149 them to solve bug 6033.)
20151 o Major features (relay performance):
20152 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20153 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20154 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20155 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20156 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20157 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20158 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20159 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20160 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20161 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20162 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20163 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20164 Implements ticket 9574.
20166 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20167 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20168 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20169 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20170 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20171 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20172 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20173 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20174 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20175 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20176 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20177 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20178 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20179 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20180 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20181 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20183 o Major features (use of guards):
20184 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20185 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20186 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20187 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20188 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20189 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20190 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20191 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20192 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20193 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20194 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20195 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20196 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20197 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20199 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20200 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20201 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20202 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20204 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20205 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20208 o Major features (geoip database):
20209 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20210 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20211 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20212 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20213 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20214 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20216 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20218 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20220 o Major features (IPv6):
20221 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20222 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20223 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20224 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20225 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20226 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20227 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20228 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20229 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20230 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20231 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20232 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20233 revised in proposal 208.
20234 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20235 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20236 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20238 o Major features (directory authorities):
20239 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20240 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20242 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20243 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20244 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20245 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20246 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20247 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20248 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20249 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20250 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20251 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20252 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20254 o Major features (build and portability):
20255 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20256 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20257 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20258 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20259 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20260 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20261 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20262 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20263 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20264 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20265 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20266 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20268 o Security features:
20269 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20270 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20271 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20272 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20273 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20274 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20275 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20276 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20277 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20280 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20281 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20282 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20283 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20284 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20285 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20286 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20287 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20288 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20289 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20290 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20291 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20292 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20293 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20294 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20295 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20296 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20297 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20299 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20300 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20301 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20302 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20304 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20305 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20306 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20308 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20309 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20310 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20311 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20312 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20313 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20314 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20315 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20316 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20318 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20319 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20321 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20322 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20323 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20324 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20325 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20326 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20327 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20328 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20329 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20330 last time we raised it).
20331 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20332 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20333 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20335 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20336 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20337 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20338 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20339 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20340 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20341 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20342 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20343 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20344 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20345 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20346 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20347 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20349 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20350 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20351 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20352 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20353 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20354 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20355 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20356 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20357 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20358 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20359 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20360 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20361 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20363 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20364 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20365 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20366 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20367 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20368 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20369 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20370 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20371 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20373 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20374 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20375 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20376 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20377 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20378 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20379 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20380 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20381 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20382 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20383 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20384 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20385 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20386 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20387 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20388 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20389 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20392 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20393 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20394 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20395 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20397 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20398 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20399 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20400 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20402 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20403 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20404 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20405 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20406 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20407 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20410 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20411 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20412 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20413 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20414 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20415 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20416 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20418 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20419 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20420 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20421 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20423 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20424 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20425 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20426 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20427 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20428 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20429 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20430 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20432 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20433 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20434 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20436 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20437 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20438 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20440 o Internal abstraction features:
20441 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20442 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20443 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20444 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20445 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20446 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20447 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20448 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20449 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20450 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20451 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20452 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20453 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20454 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20455 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20456 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20457 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20459 o New build requirements:
20460 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20461 strongly recommended.
20462 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20463 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20464 from a source distribution.)
20466 o Minor features (protocol):
20467 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20468 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20470 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20471 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20472 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20473 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20474 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20475 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20476 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20477 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20478 closes ticket 7199.
20479 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20480 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20482 o Minor features (security):
20483 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20484 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20485 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20486 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20487 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20488 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20489 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20490 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20491 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20493 o Minor features (control protocol):
20494 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20496 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20497 Implements ticket 4971.
20498 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20499 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20500 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20501 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20502 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20504 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20505 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20507 o Minor features (path selection):
20508 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20509 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20510 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20511 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20512 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20513 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20514 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20515 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20516 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20517 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20518 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20519 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20520 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20521 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20523 o Minor features (hidden services):
20524 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20525 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20526 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20527 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20528 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20529 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20530 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20531 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20532 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20533 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20534 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20535 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20536 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20538 o Minor features (clients):
20539 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20540 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20541 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20542 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20543 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20544 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20545 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20546 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20547 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20549 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20550 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20551 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20552 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20553 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20554 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20555 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20556 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20557 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20558 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20559 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20560 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20561 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20562 Implements part of proposal 222.
20564 o Minor features (bridges):
20565 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20566 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20567 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20568 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20569 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20570 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20571 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20572 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20573 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20574 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20575 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20576 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20577 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20578 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20580 o Minor features (relays):
20581 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20582 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20584 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20585 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20586 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20587 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20588 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20589 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20590 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20591 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20592 connect to the wrong addresses.
20593 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20594 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20595 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20596 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20599 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20600 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20601 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20602 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20603 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20604 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20606 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20607 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20608 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20609 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20611 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20612 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20613 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20614 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20615 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20616 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20618 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20619 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20620 Implements ticket 8151.
20621 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20622 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20623 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20624 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20626 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20627 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20628 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20629 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20630 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20631 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20632 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20633 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20634 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20635 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20636 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20637 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20638 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20639 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20640 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20641 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20642 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20643 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20644 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20645 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20646 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20647 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20648 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20649 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20650 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20651 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20652 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20653 detection capability loss.
20655 o Minor features (build):
20656 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20657 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20658 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20660 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20661 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20662 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20664 o Build improvements (autotools):
20665 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20666 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20667 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20669 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20670 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20671 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20672 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20674 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20675 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20676 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20677 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20678 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20679 than to perform erroneously.
20680 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20682 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20683 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20684 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20686 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20687 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20688 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20689 hard-to-track-down errors.
20690 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20691 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20692 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20693 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20694 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20695 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20696 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20697 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20698 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20699 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20700 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20702 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
20703 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20704 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20705 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20706 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20707 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20708 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20709 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20710 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20711 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20713 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
20714 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20715 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20716 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20717 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20718 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20719 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20720 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20721 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20722 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20723 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
20724 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
20725 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20727 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20728 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20729 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20730 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20731 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20732 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20733 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20734 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20735 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20737 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
20738 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
20739 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
20740 part of ticket 6736.
20741 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
20742 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
20743 Resolves ticket 6758.
20744 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
20745 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
20746 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
20747 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20748 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
20749 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
20750 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
20752 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20753 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20754 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20755 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20757 o Minor features (testing):
20758 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20759 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20761 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
20762 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
20763 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
20766 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
20767 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
20769 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20770 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20771 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20772 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
20773 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
20774 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
20775 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
20776 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
20777 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
20778 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20779 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20780 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20781 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20782 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20783 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20784 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20785 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20787 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
20788 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20789 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20790 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20791 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20792 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20793 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20794 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20795 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20796 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20797 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
20798 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
20799 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20800 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20801 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20802 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20803 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20804 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20805 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20806 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20809 o Minor fixes (config options):
20810 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20811 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20812 or we just won't work.)
20813 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20814 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20815 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20816 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
20817 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
20818 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20819 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
20820 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20821 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20822 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20823 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20824 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20825 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
20826 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20827 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20828 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20829 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20830 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20831 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20833 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
20834 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20835 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20837 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
20838 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
20839 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
20840 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
20842 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
20843 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20844 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20845 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20846 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20847 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20848 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
20849 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
20850 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
20851 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
20852 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20853 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20854 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20855 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20856 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20857 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20860 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
20861 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20862 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20863 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20864 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20865 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20866 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
20867 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
20868 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
20869 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20870 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20871 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20872 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20873 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20874 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20875 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20876 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20878 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20879 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20880 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20881 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20882 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20883 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
20884 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
20885 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
20887 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20888 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
20889 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
20890 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
20892 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20893 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
20894 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
20895 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
20896 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
20898 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20899 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
20900 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
20901 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20902 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
20903 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20905 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
20906 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20907 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20908 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20909 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20910 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20911 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20912 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
20913 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
20915 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20916 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20917 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20918 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20919 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20920 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
20921 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
20922 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
20923 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20924 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20925 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20926 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20928 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20929 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20930 this is CID 718634.
20931 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20932 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20933 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20934 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20936 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20937 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20939 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
20940 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
20941 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
20942 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
20943 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
20944 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
20945 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
20946 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20947 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20948 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20949 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
20950 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20951 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20952 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20953 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20954 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
20955 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
20956 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
20958 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
20959 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20960 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20961 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20962 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20963 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20964 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20965 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
20966 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
20967 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20968 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20969 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20970 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20973 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
20974 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
20975 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
20976 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20977 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20979 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20980 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20981 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20982 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20983 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20984 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20985 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20986 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20987 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20990 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20991 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20992 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20993 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20995 o Documentation fixes:
20996 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20997 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20998 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20999 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21000 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21001 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21002 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21004 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21005 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21006 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21007 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21008 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21009 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21010 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21011 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21012 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21013 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21014 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21015 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21016 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21018 o Removed features:
21019 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21020 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21021 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21023 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21024 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21025 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21026 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21027 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21028 compatibility code.
21031 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21032 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21034 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21035 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21037 o Code simplification:
21038 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21039 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21040 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21041 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21043 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21044 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21046 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21047 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21048 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21049 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21050 present the same extensions.)
21051 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21053 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21054 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21055 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21056 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21058 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21059 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21060 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21061 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21064 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21066 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21067 and the different handshakes it supports.
21068 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21069 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21070 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21071 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21073 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21074 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21075 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21076 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21077 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21078 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21079 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21080 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21081 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21082 Implements ticket 5529.
21083 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21084 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21085 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21088 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21089 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21090 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21091 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21092 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21093 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21094 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21095 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21096 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21097 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21098 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21099 any encoding is overkill.
21100 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21101 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21102 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21103 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21104 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21105 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21106 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21107 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21108 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21111 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21112 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21113 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21114 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21115 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21116 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21117 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21118 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21120 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21121 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21122 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21123 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21124 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21125 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21126 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21127 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21128 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21129 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21130 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21132 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21133 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21134 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21135 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21136 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21137 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21138 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21139 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21140 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21141 describes microdescriptors.
21143 o Major features (build hardening):
21144 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21146 o Major features (relay scaling):
21147 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21148 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21149 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21150 much faster than other AES implementations.
21151 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21152 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21153 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21154 Resolves ticket 4526.
21155 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21156 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21158 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21159 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21160 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21161 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21163 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21164 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21166 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21167 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21168 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21169 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21170 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21171 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21172 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21173 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21174 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21175 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21176 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21177 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21178 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21179 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21180 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21181 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21182 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21183 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21184 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21186 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21187 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21188 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21189 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21190 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21192 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21193 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21194 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21195 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21196 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21197 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21198 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21199 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21200 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21201 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21202 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21203 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21205 o Major features (hidden services):
21206 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21207 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21208 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21210 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21211 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21212 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21213 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21214 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21215 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21217 o Major features (IPv6):
21218 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21219 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21220 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21221 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21222 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21224 o Major features (directory authorities):
21225 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21226 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21227 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21228 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21229 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21230 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21231 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21232 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21233 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21234 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21236 o Major features (performance):
21237 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21238 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21239 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21240 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21241 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21242 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21243 side of Proposal 174.
21244 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21245 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21246 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21247 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21248 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21249 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21250 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21251 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21252 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21253 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21254 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21255 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21257 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21258 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21259 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21260 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21261 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21264 o Major features (relays):
21265 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21266 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21267 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21268 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21269 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21270 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21271 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21273 o Major features (stream isolation):
21274 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21275 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21276 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21277 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21278 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21279 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21280 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21281 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21282 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21283 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21284 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21285 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21286 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21287 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21289 o Major features (bufferevents):
21290 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21291 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21292 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21293 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21294 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21295 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21296 zero-copy transports where available.
21297 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21298 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21299 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21300 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21301 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21302 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21304 o Major features (path selection):
21305 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21306 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21307 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21308 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21311 o Major features (port forwarding):
21312 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21313 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21314 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21315 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21316 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21317 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21319 o Major features (logging):
21320 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21321 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21322 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21323 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21324 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21325 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21326 Implements enhancement 1668.
21328 o Major features (other):
21329 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21330 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21331 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21332 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21333 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21334 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21335 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21336 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21337 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21338 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21339 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21340 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21341 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21342 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21343 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21344 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21345 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21346 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21347 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21348 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21350 o New directory authorities:
21351 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21352 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21354 o Security/privacy fixes:
21355 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21356 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21357 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21358 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21359 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21360 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21361 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21362 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21363 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21364 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21365 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21366 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21367 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21368 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21369 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21370 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21371 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21372 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21373 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21374 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21375 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21376 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21377 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21378 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21379 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21380 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21381 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21382 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21383 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21384 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21385 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21387 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21388 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21389 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21390 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21391 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21392 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21393 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21394 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21395 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21396 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21397 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21398 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21399 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21400 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21403 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21404 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21405 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21406 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21407 which introduced predicted ports.
21408 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21409 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21410 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21411 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21412 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21413 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21414 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21415 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21416 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21418 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21419 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21420 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21421 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21422 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21423 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21425 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21426 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21427 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21428 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21429 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21430 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21431 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21432 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21433 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21434 documents entirely.
21436 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21437 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21438 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21439 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21440 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21441 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21442 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21443 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21444 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21445 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21446 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21447 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21448 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21449 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21450 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21451 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21452 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21453 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21455 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21456 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21457 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21458 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21459 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21460 cells were introduced.
21461 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21462 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21463 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21464 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21466 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21467 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21468 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21469 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21470 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21471 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21472 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21473 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21474 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21475 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21476 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21477 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21478 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21479 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21480 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21481 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21482 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21483 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21484 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21485 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21487 o Changes to default torrc file:
21488 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21489 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21491 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21492 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21493 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21495 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21496 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21497 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21499 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21500 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21501 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21502 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21503 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21504 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21505 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21506 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21507 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21508 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21509 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21510 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21511 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21512 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21513 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21514 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21517 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21518 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21519 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21520 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21521 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21522 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21523 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21524 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21525 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21526 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21527 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21528 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21529 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21530 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21532 o Minor features (IPv6):
21533 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21534 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21535 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21536 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21537 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21538 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21540 o Minor features (hidden services):
21541 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21542 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21543 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21544 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21545 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21546 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21547 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21548 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21549 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21550 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21551 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21553 o Minor features (relays):
21554 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21555 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21556 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21557 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21558 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21559 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21560 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21561 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21562 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21563 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21564 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21567 o Minor features (new config options):
21568 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21569 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21570 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21571 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21572 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21573 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21574 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21575 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21576 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21577 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21578 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21579 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21581 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21582 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21583 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21584 Implements issue 933.
21585 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21586 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21587 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21588 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21589 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21590 implements ticket 3439.
21591 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21592 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21593 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21594 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21595 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21596 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21597 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21598 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21600 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21601 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21602 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21603 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21604 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21605 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21606 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21607 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21608 appending to the list.
21609 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21610 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21611 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21612 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21615 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21616 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21617 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21618 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21619 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21620 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21621 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21623 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21624 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21625 circuit-status' control-port command.
21626 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21627 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21628 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21629 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21630 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21631 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21633 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21634 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21635 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21636 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21637 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21638 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21639 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21640 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21641 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21643 o Minor features (controller, other):
21644 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21645 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21646 part of ticket 3457.
21647 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21648 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21649 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21650 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21651 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21653 o Minor features (log messages):
21654 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21655 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21656 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21657 please let us know about it.
21658 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21659 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21660 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21661 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21662 Resolves ticket 2474.
21663 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21664 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21666 o Minor features (other):
21667 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21668 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21669 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21670 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21672 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21673 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21674 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21675 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21676 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21677 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21678 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21680 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21681 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21682 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21683 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21684 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21686 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21687 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21688 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21689 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21690 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21691 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21692 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21693 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21694 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21695 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
21696 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
21697 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
21698 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
21699 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21700 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21701 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21704 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
21705 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
21706 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21707 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21708 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21709 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21710 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21711 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
21712 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
21714 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
21715 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
21716 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
21717 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
21718 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21719 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21720 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21721 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
21722 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
21723 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21725 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21726 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
21727 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21728 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
21729 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
21730 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
21731 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21732 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
21733 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
21735 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21736 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21737 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21738 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
21739 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
21740 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
21741 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
21742 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
21743 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
21745 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21746 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21747 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21748 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21749 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21750 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21751 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21753 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
21754 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
21755 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
21756 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
21758 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21759 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
21760 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
21761 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21762 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21763 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21764 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21765 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21766 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21767 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
21768 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
21769 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
21772 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
21773 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
21774 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21775 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21776 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21777 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21779 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
21780 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
21781 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21782 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
21783 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
21784 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
21785 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21786 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
21787 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
21788 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
21789 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
21790 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21791 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21792 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21793 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21795 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
21796 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
21797 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
21798 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
21799 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
21800 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
21802 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21803 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21804 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21805 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21806 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21807 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
21808 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
21809 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
21810 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
21811 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
21812 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
21813 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
21814 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
21815 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
21816 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21818 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
21819 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
21820 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
21821 be disabled using the new
21822 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
21823 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21824 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
21825 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
21826 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
21827 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
21828 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
21830 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
21831 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
21832 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
21833 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21834 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
21835 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
21836 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
21838 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
21839 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
21840 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
21841 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
21842 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21843 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
21844 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
21845 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
21847 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
21848 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
21849 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
21850 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21851 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
21852 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
21853 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
21854 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21856 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21857 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
21858 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
21859 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
21860 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
21861 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
21862 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
21863 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
21865 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
21866 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
21867 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
21868 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
21870 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
21871 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
21872 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
21874 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
21875 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
21877 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
21878 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
21879 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
21880 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
21881 case for flushing marked connections.
21882 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
21883 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
21884 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
21885 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
21886 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
21887 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21888 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
21889 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
21890 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
21891 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21893 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21894 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
21895 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
21896 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
21897 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
21898 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
21899 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
21900 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
21901 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
21902 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
21903 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
21905 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
21906 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21907 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
21908 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
21909 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21911 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
21912 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21913 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21914 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21915 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21916 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
21917 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
21918 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
21919 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
21920 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
21921 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
21922 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
21923 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
21924 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
21925 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
21926 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
21928 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
21929 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21930 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21931 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21932 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
21933 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
21934 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21935 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
21936 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21937 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
21938 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
21939 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
21940 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
21941 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
21942 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21943 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21944 Implements ticket 3264.
21945 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
21947 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
21948 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
21949 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
21950 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
21951 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
21952 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
21954 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
21955 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21956 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21957 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
21958 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
21959 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21960 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
21961 them from the other auths.
21962 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21963 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21964 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21965 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21966 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21967 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21968 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21969 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
21973 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
21974 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
21975 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
21977 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21978 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21979 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21980 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21981 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21982 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
21983 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
21984 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
21986 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
21987 ./src/test/bench binary.
21988 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
21989 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
21990 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21991 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21994 o Build improvements:
21995 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
21996 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
21997 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
21998 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21999 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22000 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22001 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22002 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22003 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22004 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22005 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22006 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22007 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22008 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22009 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22010 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22011 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22012 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22013 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22014 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22015 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22017 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22019 o Build requirements:
22020 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22021 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22022 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22023 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22024 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22025 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22026 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22027 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22028 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22029 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22030 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22031 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22032 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22034 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22035 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22036 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22038 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22039 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22040 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22041 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22042 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22043 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22044 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22045 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22046 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22048 o Build fixes (other):
22049 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22050 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22052 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22053 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22054 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22055 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22056 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22057 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22058 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22059 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22061 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22062 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22065 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22066 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22067 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22068 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22069 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22070 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22071 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22072 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22074 o Code refactoring (safety):
22075 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22076 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22077 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22078 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22079 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22080 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22081 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22082 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22083 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22084 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22085 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22086 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22088 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22089 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22090 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22091 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22092 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22093 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22094 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22095 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22096 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22097 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22098 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22099 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22100 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22101 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22102 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22103 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22104 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22105 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22107 o Code refactoring (separate):
22108 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22109 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22110 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22112 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22113 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22116 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22117 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22118 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22119 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22120 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22121 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22122 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22123 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22125 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22126 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22127 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22128 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22129 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22130 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22131 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22132 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22133 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22134 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22135 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22137 o Code refactoring (other):
22138 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22139 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22141 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22142 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22143 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22144 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22145 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22146 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22147 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22148 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22149 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22150 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22151 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22152 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22154 o Removed features and files:
22155 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22156 it would be a bad idea to start.
22157 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22159 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22160 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22161 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22162 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22163 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22164 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22165 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22166 are no longer in use as relays.
22167 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22168 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22169 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22170 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22171 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22172 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22176 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22177 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22178 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22180 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22181 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22183 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22184 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22185 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22187 o Documentation fixes:
22188 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22189 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22190 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22191 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22192 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22193 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22194 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22195 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22198 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22199 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22203 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22204 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22205 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22206 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22207 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22208 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22209 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22213 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22214 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22215 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22218 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22219 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22220 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22221 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22222 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22223 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22224 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22225 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22226 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22227 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22228 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22229 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22230 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22231 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22234 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22235 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22236 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22240 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22241 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22242 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22243 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22244 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22245 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22246 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22247 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22248 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22249 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22250 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22253 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22254 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22257 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22258 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22261 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22262 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22263 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22264 and fixes several crash bugs.
22266 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22267 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22268 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22269 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22271 o Directory authority changes:
22272 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22273 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22277 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22278 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22279 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22280 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22281 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22282 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22283 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22284 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22285 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22286 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22287 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22288 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22289 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22290 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22291 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22292 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22293 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22294 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22295 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22296 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22297 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22298 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22299 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22300 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22301 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22302 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22303 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22306 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22307 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22308 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22309 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22311 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22312 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22314 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22315 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22316 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22317 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22318 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22319 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22320 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22321 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22324 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22325 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22326 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22327 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22328 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22329 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22330 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22331 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22332 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22333 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22334 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22335 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22336 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22337 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22338 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22339 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22340 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22341 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22342 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22343 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22344 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22345 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22346 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22347 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22348 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22349 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22350 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22351 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22352 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22353 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22354 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22355 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22356 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22357 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22358 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22359 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22360 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22361 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22362 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22363 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22364 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22365 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22366 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22367 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22368 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22369 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22371 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22372 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22373 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22374 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22375 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22376 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22377 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22378 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22379 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22380 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22381 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22382 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22383 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22384 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22385 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22388 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22389 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22390 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22391 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22393 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22396 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22397 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22398 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22399 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22400 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22401 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22402 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22405 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22406 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22407 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22409 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22410 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22411 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22412 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22413 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22414 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22415 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22416 (which Tor does not do by default).
22418 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22419 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22420 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22421 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22422 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22424 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22425 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22426 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22429 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22430 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22431 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22432 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22433 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22435 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22436 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22439 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22440 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22441 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22442 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22443 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22444 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22445 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22446 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22448 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22449 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22450 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22451 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22452 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22453 close based on processing a cell on it.
22454 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22455 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22456 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22457 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22458 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22459 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22460 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22461 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22462 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22463 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22464 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22465 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22466 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22467 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22468 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22471 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22472 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22473 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22474 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22475 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22476 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22477 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22479 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22480 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22481 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22482 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22483 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22484 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22485 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22486 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22487 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22488 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22489 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22490 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22491 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22492 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22493 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22494 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22495 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22496 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22497 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22498 Reported by "troll_un".
22499 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22500 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22501 Reported by "troll_un".
22502 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22503 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22504 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22505 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22508 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22509 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22510 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22511 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22512 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22513 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22514 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22515 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22516 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22517 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22518 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22520 o Packaging changes:
22521 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22522 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22525 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22526 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22527 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22528 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22529 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22531 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22532 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22534 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22535 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22536 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22537 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22538 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22539 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22540 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22541 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22542 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22545 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22548 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22549 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22550 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22552 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22553 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22554 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22555 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22556 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22557 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22558 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22559 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22560 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22561 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22562 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22563 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22564 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22566 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22567 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22568 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22569 currently connected to them.
22571 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22572 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22573 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22575 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22576 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22577 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22578 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22579 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22580 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22581 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22582 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22583 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22584 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22585 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22586 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22587 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22588 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22589 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22590 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22591 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22592 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22595 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22596 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22597 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22598 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22599 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22600 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22601 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22602 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22603 when bridges were introduced.
22604 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22605 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22606 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22607 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22608 Found by "frosty_un".
22611 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22612 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22614 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22615 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22616 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22617 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22618 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22619 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22620 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22623 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22624 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22625 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22626 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22627 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22628 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22629 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22630 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22631 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22632 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22633 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22634 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22635 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22636 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22637 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22638 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22639 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22640 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22642 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22643 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22644 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22645 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22646 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22647 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22648 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22649 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22650 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22651 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22652 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22653 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22656 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22657 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22658 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22659 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22662 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22663 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22664 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22665 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22666 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22668 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22669 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22670 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22671 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22672 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22673 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22674 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22675 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22676 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22677 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22679 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22680 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22681 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22682 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22683 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22684 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22685 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22686 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22687 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22688 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22689 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22690 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22691 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22692 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22693 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22694 Found by "frosty_un".
22695 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22696 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22697 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22698 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22699 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22700 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22701 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22702 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22703 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22704 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22705 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22706 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22707 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22708 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22709 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22710 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22711 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22712 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22713 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22715 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22716 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22717 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22718 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22719 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22720 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22721 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22722 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22724 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22725 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
22726 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
22727 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
22728 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22729 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22730 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22731 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22732 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22733 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22734 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22735 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22737 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22738 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22739 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22740 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22741 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
22742 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22743 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22744 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22745 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22747 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
22749 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22750 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22751 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22752 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22753 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
22754 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
22755 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
22756 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22758 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
22759 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
22760 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
22761 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
22762 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22764 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22765 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22766 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22767 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
22768 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22771 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
22772 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
22773 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
22774 reachable from Iran again.
22777 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
22778 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
22779 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22781 o Minor features (security):
22782 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
22783 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
22784 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
22785 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
22786 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
22787 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
22788 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
22789 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
22790 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
22791 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
22794 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22795 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22796 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
22797 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
22798 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
22799 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
22800 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
22801 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
22802 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22804 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22805 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
22806 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
22807 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
22808 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
22809 raised by bug 3898.
22810 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
22811 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
22812 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
22813 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
22814 fixes part of bug 2442.
22815 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
22816 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
22817 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
22819 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
22820 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
22821 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
22822 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
22823 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22826 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
22827 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22828 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
22829 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
22830 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
22831 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
22834 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
22835 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
22836 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
22837 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
22838 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
22839 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
22840 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
22841 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
22842 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
22843 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
22845 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
22846 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
22847 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
22848 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
22849 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
22850 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
22851 many many other features and bugfixes.
22853 o Major features (client performance):
22854 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
22855 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
22856 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
22857 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
22858 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
22859 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
22861 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
22862 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
22863 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
22864 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
22865 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
22866 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
22867 the first implementation of this feature.
22869 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
22870 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
22871 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
22872 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
22873 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
22874 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
22875 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
22876 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
22877 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
22878 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
22879 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
22880 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
22881 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
22882 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
22883 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
22884 file. Implements ticket 1296.
22886 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
22887 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
22888 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
22889 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
22890 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
22891 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
22892 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
22893 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
22894 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
22895 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
22896 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
22897 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
22898 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
22899 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
22900 they first get the Guard flag.
22901 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
22902 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
22903 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
22904 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
22905 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
22906 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
22907 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
22908 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
22910 o Major features (relays control their load better):
22911 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
22912 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
22913 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
22914 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
22915 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
22916 based on a variant of proposal 163.
22917 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
22918 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
22919 but never per-conn write limits.
22920 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
22921 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
22922 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
22923 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
22925 o Major features (controllers):
22926 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22927 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22928 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22929 contributions to the network.
22930 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
22931 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
22932 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
22934 o Major features (directory authorities):
22935 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22936 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22937 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22939 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
22940 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22941 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
22942 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22943 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22944 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22945 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22946 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22947 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22948 hash algorithm in the future.
22949 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
22950 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
22951 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
22953 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22954 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22955 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
22956 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22957 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22958 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22959 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22960 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22961 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22962 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22963 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22964 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22965 connections to directory servers.
22966 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22967 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22968 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22969 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22970 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22971 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22972 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22973 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22974 information, or fetch directory information.
22975 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22976 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
22977 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
22978 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
22979 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22981 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22982 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22983 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22984 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22985 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22986 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22987 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22988 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22989 the network changes.
22990 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22991 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22993 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22994 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22995 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22996 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22997 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22998 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22999 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23000 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23001 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23002 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23003 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23004 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23005 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23006 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23007 reachability self-tests.
23008 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23009 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23010 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23011 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23012 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23014 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23015 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23016 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23018 o Major features (misc):
23019 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23020 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23021 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23022 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23023 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23024 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23025 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23026 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23027 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23028 part of ticket 3076.
23029 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23030 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23031 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23033 o Code security improvements:
23034 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23035 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23036 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23037 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23038 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23039 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23040 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23041 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23042 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23043 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23044 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23045 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23046 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23047 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23048 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23049 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23050 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23051 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23052 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23053 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23054 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23055 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23056 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23057 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23058 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23059 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23060 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23061 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23063 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23064 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23065 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23066 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23067 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23068 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23069 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23070 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23071 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23072 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23073 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23074 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23075 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23077 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23078 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23079 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23081 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23082 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23084 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23085 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23086 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23087 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23088 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23089 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23090 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23091 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23092 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23093 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23094 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23095 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23096 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23097 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23098 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23099 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23100 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23102 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23103 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23104 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23106 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23107 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23108 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23109 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23110 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23111 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23112 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23113 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23114 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23115 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23116 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23117 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23118 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23119 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23120 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23121 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23122 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23123 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23124 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23126 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23127 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23128 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23129 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23130 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23131 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23132 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23133 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23134 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23135 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23137 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23138 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23139 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23140 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23141 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23142 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23143 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23144 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23145 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23146 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23148 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23149 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23150 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23151 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23152 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23153 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23154 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23155 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23156 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23157 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23158 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23159 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23160 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23162 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23163 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23164 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23165 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23166 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23167 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23168 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23169 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23170 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23171 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23173 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23174 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23175 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23176 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23177 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23178 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23179 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23181 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23182 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23183 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23184 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23185 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23186 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23187 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23188 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23189 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23190 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23191 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23192 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23193 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23194 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23195 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23197 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23198 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23199 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23200 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23201 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23202 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23203 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23205 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23206 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23207 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23208 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23209 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23210 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23211 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23212 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23214 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23215 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23216 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23217 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23218 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23219 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23220 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23221 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23222 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23223 the longest-lived bug prize.
23224 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23225 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23226 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23227 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23228 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23229 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23230 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23231 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23232 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23233 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23235 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23236 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23237 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23238 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23239 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23240 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23243 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23244 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23245 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23246 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23247 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23248 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23249 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23250 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23251 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23252 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23253 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23254 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23255 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23256 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23257 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23258 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23259 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23260 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23261 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23262 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23263 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23264 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23265 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23266 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23267 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23268 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23270 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23271 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23272 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23273 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23274 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23275 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23276 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23277 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23278 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23280 o Minor features (relays):
23281 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23282 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23283 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23284 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23285 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23286 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23287 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23288 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23290 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23291 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23292 Resolves ticket 3252.
23293 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23294 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23296 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23297 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23298 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23299 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23300 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23302 o Minor features (network statistics):
23303 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23304 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23305 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23306 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23307 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23308 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23309 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23310 measure download times.
23311 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23312 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23314 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23315 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23316 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23317 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23319 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23320 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23321 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23323 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23324 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23325 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23326 Implements ticket 2432.
23327 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23328 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23329 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23330 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23331 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23332 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23333 Implements enhancement 1790.
23334 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23335 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23337 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23338 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23339 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23340 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23341 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23342 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23343 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23345 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23347 o Minor features (clients):
23348 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23349 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23350 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23351 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23353 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23354 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23355 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23356 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23357 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23358 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23359 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23360 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23362 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23363 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23364 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23365 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23366 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23367 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23368 SSL handshake issues.
23370 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23371 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23372 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23373 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23374 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23375 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23376 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23377 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23378 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23379 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23380 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23381 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23382 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23383 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23384 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23385 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23386 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23387 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23388 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23389 hour of their uptime.
23390 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23391 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23392 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23393 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23395 o Minor features (hidden services):
23396 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23397 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23398 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23399 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23400 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23401 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23402 by fix for bug 3000.
23403 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23404 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23405 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23406 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23407 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23409 o Minor features (controller interface):
23410 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23411 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23412 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23413 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23414 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23415 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23416 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23417 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23418 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23419 over our stored history.
23420 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23421 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23422 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23424 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23425 to the circuit build timeout.
23426 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23427 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23428 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23430 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23431 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23432 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23433 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23435 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23436 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23437 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23438 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23439 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23440 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23441 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23442 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23443 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23444 arguments we do not recognize.
23446 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23447 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23448 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23449 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23450 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23451 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23452 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23453 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23454 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23455 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23456 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23457 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23458 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23459 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23460 got suppressed since the last warning.
23461 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23462 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23463 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23464 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23465 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23466 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23467 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23469 o Minor features (log domains):
23470 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23471 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23472 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23474 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23475 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23477 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23478 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23479 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23481 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23482 during the TLS handshake.
23484 o Minor features (build process):
23485 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23486 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23487 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23489 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23490 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23491 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23493 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23494 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23495 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23496 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23497 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23498 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23500 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23501 source files Tor was built with.
23502 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23503 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23504 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23505 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23506 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23507 speeds up the build considerably.
23509 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23510 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23511 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23512 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23513 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23514 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23515 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23516 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23517 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23518 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23519 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23520 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23521 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23522 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23523 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23524 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23525 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23526 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23527 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23528 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23529 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23530 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23531 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23532 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23533 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23534 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23535 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23536 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23538 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23539 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23540 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23543 o Minor features (unit tests):
23544 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23545 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23546 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23547 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23548 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23549 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23551 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23552 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23555 o Minor features (misc):
23556 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23557 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23558 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23559 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23561 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23562 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23563 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23564 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23565 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23567 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23568 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23569 open() without checking it.
23570 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23571 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23572 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23573 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23575 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23576 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23577 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23578 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23579 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23580 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23581 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23582 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23583 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23584 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23585 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23586 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23587 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23588 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23589 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23590 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23591 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23592 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23593 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23594 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23595 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23596 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23597 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23598 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23599 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23600 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23601 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23602 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23604 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23605 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23606 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23607 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23609 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23610 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23611 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23612 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23613 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23615 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23616 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23617 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23618 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23619 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23620 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23621 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23622 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23623 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23624 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23625 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23626 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23627 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23629 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23630 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23631 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23632 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23633 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23634 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23635 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23636 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23637 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23638 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23639 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23640 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23641 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23642 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23643 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23644 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23645 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23646 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23647 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23648 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23649 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23651 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23652 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23653 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23654 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23655 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23656 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23657 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23658 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23659 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23661 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23662 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23663 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23664 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23665 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23666 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23667 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23668 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23669 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23670 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23671 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23672 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23673 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23676 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23677 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23678 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23679 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23680 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23681 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23682 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23683 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23684 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23685 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23686 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23688 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23689 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23691 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23692 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
23693 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
23694 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
23695 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23696 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
23697 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
23698 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
23700 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23701 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23702 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23703 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23704 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
23705 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
23706 discovered by katmagic.
23707 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
23708 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
23710 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
23711 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23712 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23713 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23714 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23715 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23716 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23717 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23718 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23720 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
23721 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
23723 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
23724 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
23726 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
23727 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
23729 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
23730 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
23731 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
23732 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23733 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
23734 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
23735 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23736 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
23737 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
23738 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
23739 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
23740 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
23741 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
23742 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
23743 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
23745 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
23746 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
23747 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
23748 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
23749 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
23750 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
23751 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
23752 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
23753 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
23755 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
23756 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
23757 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
23759 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
23760 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
23761 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
23762 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
23764 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
23765 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23766 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23767 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23768 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23769 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
23770 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
23772 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23773 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
23774 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
23775 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23776 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
23777 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
23779 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
23780 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
23781 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
23782 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
23783 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
23784 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
23785 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
23786 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23787 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
23789 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
23790 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
23791 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23792 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
23793 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23794 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
23795 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
23796 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
23797 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
23798 control-spec.txt said they were.
23800 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23801 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
23802 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
23804 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
23805 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23806 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
23807 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
23808 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
23810 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
23811 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
23813 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
23814 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
23815 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
23816 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
23817 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
23818 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
23819 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
23821 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
23822 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23823 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23824 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23825 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
23826 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
23827 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
23828 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
23831 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
23832 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
23833 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
23834 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
23835 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
23836 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
23837 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
23838 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
23839 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
23840 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
23841 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
23842 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23843 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
23844 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
23845 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
23847 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
23848 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
23849 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
23850 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
23851 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
23852 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23853 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23855 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
23856 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
23859 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23860 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23861 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23862 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23863 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23864 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23865 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
23866 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
23867 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
23868 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
23869 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
23870 fixes part of bug 3407.
23871 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23872 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
23873 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
23874 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
23875 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
23876 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
23877 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
23878 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
23879 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
23880 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
23882 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
23883 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
23884 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
23885 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
23886 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
23887 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
23888 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
23889 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23890 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
23891 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
23892 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
23893 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23894 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
23895 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
23896 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23897 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
23898 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23900 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
23901 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
23902 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
23903 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
23904 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
23905 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
23906 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23907 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
23908 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
23909 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
23910 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
23911 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
23913 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
23914 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
23915 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
23916 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
23917 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
23919 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
23920 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
23921 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
23922 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23924 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23925 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23926 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23927 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
23928 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
23929 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
23930 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23931 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23932 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23933 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
23935 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
23936 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23937 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23938 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23939 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23940 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23941 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23942 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
23944 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
23945 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
23946 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
23948 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23949 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23950 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23951 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23952 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23953 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23954 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23955 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23956 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23957 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23959 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23961 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23962 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23963 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23964 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23965 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23966 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23967 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23968 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23969 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23970 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23972 o Documentation changes:
23973 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
23974 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
23976 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
23977 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23978 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23979 what should go in a patch.
23980 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
23982 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23983 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23984 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23985 projects directory in svn.
23987 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
23988 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23989 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23990 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23991 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
23992 hidden service usage.
23993 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23994 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23995 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
23996 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
23997 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24000 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24001 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24002 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24003 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24004 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24007 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24008 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24009 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24010 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24011 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24012 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24013 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24014 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24015 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24016 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24017 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24018 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24019 via application-level web tricks.
24020 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24021 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24022 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24023 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24024 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24025 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24026 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24027 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24028 keep the workaround in place.
24029 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24030 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24031 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24032 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24033 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24034 want to do it differently.
24035 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24036 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24037 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24040 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24041 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24042 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24043 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24044 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24045 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24048 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24049 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24050 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24051 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24052 the rest of bug 1074.
24053 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24054 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24055 Found by "piebeer".
24056 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24057 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24058 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24059 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24060 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24061 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24062 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24065 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24067 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24070 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24071 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24072 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24073 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24074 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24075 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24076 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24077 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24078 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24079 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24080 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24082 o Packaging changes:
24083 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24084 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24085 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24086 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24087 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24088 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24091 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24092 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24093 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24094 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24095 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24097 o Major bugfixes (security):
24098 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24099 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24100 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24102 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24103 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24104 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24105 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24106 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24107 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24108 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24109 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24111 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24112 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24113 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24114 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24115 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24116 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24117 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24118 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24119 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24120 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24121 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24122 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24123 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24124 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24127 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24128 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24129 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24130 bug reported by doorss.
24131 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24132 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24133 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24134 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24135 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24137 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24138 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24139 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24140 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24141 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24144 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24145 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24148 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24149 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24150 Automake 1.7 or later.
24151 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24152 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24153 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24154 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24157 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24158 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24159 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24160 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24164 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24165 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24166 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24167 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24169 o Directory authority changes:
24170 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24173 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24176 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24177 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24178 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24179 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24180 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24183 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24184 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24185 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24186 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24187 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24188 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24189 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24190 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24191 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24192 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24193 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24194 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24195 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24196 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24197 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24198 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24199 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24200 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24201 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24202 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24203 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24204 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24205 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24208 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24209 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24210 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24211 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24213 o New directory authorities:
24214 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24218 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24219 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24220 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24222 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24223 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24224 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24225 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24226 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24227 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24229 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24230 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24231 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24234 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24235 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24236 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24237 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24238 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24239 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24240 Patch from mingw-san.
24243 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24244 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24245 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24246 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24247 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24248 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24251 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24252 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24253 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24254 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24255 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24257 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24258 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24261 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24262 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24263 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24264 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24265 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24266 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24267 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24268 their directory fetches over TLS).
24269 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24270 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24271 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24272 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24273 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24274 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24275 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24276 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24279 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24280 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24284 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24285 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24286 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24287 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24288 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24289 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24290 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24293 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24294 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24295 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24296 several minor potential security bugs.
24299 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24300 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24301 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24302 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24303 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24304 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24305 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24308 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24309 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24311 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24312 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24313 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24314 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24317 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24318 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24322 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24323 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24324 customized patches to run/build.
24327 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24328 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24329 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24332 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24333 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24334 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24335 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24336 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24337 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24338 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24339 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24342 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24343 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24344 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24345 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24346 libraries in a security patch.
24347 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24348 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24349 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24350 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24354 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24355 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24358 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24359 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24360 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24361 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24362 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24365 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24366 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24367 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24368 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24369 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24371 o Directory authority changes:
24372 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24376 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24377 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24378 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24381 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24382 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24383 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24384 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24385 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24388 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24389 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24390 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24391 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24392 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24393 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24394 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24397 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24398 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24399 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24400 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24401 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24402 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24404 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24405 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24408 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24409 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24410 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24411 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24413 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24414 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24416 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24417 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24418 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24419 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24422 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24423 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24424 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24425 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24426 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24428 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24429 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24431 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24432 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24433 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24436 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24437 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24438 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24440 o New directory authorities:
24441 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24443 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24446 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24447 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24449 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24450 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24451 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24452 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24453 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24454 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24455 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24456 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24457 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24458 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24459 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24460 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24461 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24462 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24463 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24464 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24465 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24467 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24468 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24469 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24471 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24472 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24476 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24477 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24478 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24479 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24480 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24483 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24484 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24488 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24489 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24490 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24493 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24494 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24495 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24496 and confuse fewer users.
24499 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24500 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24501 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24502 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24503 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24504 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24505 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24508 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24509 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24510 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24511 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24512 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24513 other features and bug fixes.
24515 o Major features (clients):
24516 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24517 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24518 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24519 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24521 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24522 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24523 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24524 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24525 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24526 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24527 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24528 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24529 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24530 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24532 o Major features (relays):
24533 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24534 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24535 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24536 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24537 data. Found by Jacob.
24538 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24539 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24540 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24541 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24543 o Major features (hidden services):
24544 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24545 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24546 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24547 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24548 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24549 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24550 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24551 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24552 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24553 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24554 lookups more reliable.
24556 o Major features (path selection):
24557 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24558 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24559 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24560 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24561 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24563 o Major features (misc):
24564 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24565 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24567 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24568 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24569 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24570 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24571 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24572 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24574 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24575 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24576 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24577 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24579 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24582 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24583 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24584 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24585 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24586 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24587 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24588 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24589 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24590 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24591 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24592 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24593 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24594 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24595 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24596 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24597 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24598 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24599 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24600 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24601 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24602 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24603 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24604 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24605 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24606 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24607 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24608 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24609 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24610 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24611 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24612 Implements proposal 148.
24614 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24615 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24616 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24617 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24618 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24619 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24621 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24622 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24623 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24624 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24625 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24626 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24627 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24628 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24629 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24631 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24632 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24633 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24634 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24636 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24637 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24638 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24639 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24640 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24641 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24642 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24643 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24644 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24646 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24647 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24648 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24649 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24650 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24651 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24652 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24653 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24654 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24655 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24656 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24657 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24658 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24659 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24660 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24661 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24664 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24665 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24666 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24667 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24668 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24669 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24670 patch by Sebastian.
24671 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24672 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24673 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24674 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24675 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24676 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24677 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24678 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24679 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24680 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24683 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24684 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24685 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24686 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24687 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24688 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24690 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24691 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24692 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24693 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24694 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24695 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24696 on a typical directory cache.
24697 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24698 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24699 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24700 and may reduce fragmentation.
24702 o New/changed config options:
24703 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24704 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24705 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24706 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24707 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24708 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24709 locked down these days.
24710 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24711 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24712 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24713 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24714 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24715 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24716 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24717 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24718 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24719 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24720 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
24721 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
24722 directory requests we should expect to see.
24723 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24724 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
24725 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
24726 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
24727 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
24728 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
24729 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24731 o Minor features (relays):
24732 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
24733 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
24734 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
24735 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
24736 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
24738 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
24739 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
24740 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
24741 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
24742 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
24743 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
24744 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
24745 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
24746 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
24747 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
24748 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
24749 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
24750 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
24752 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24753 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
24754 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
24755 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
24756 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
24757 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
24758 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
24759 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
24760 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
24761 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
24762 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
24764 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
24765 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
24766 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
24767 fingerprints with or without space.
24769 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
24770 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
24771 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
24772 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
24773 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
24774 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
24775 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
24776 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
24777 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
24779 o Minor features (bridges):
24780 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
24781 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
24783 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
24784 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
24787 o Minor features (hidden services):
24788 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
24789 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
24790 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
24791 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
24792 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
24793 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
24794 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
24795 faster after restart.
24796 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
24797 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
24799 o Minor features (build and packaging):
24800 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
24802 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
24803 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
24805 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
24806 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
24807 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
24808 entirely. Patch from coderman.
24809 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
24810 are built without support for deprecated functions.
24811 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
24812 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
24813 system to do it for us.
24814 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
24815 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
24816 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
24817 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
24818 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
24819 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
24820 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
24821 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
24822 the letter of C99's alias rules.
24823 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
24824 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
24825 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
24826 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
24827 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
24828 with log.h on Android.
24829 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
24830 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
24832 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
24833 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
24834 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
24835 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
24837 o Minor features (controllers):
24838 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
24839 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
24840 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
24841 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
24842 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
24843 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
24844 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
24845 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
24846 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
24847 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
24849 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
24850 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
24851 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
24852 been fetched and validated.
24853 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
24854 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
24856 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
24858 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
24859 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
24860 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
24861 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
24862 partway through and wants to catch up.
24863 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
24865 o Minor features (tools):
24866 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
24867 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
24868 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
24869 people find host:port too confusing.
24870 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
24871 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
24873 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24874 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
24875 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24876 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
24877 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
24878 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
24879 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
24880 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
24881 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
24883 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
24884 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
24885 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
24886 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
24887 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
24889 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
24890 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
24891 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
24893 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
24894 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24895 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
24896 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
24897 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
24898 have already been marked for close.
24899 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
24900 memory performance during directory parsing.
24902 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24903 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
24904 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
24905 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
24906 done that for a long time.
24907 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
24908 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
24909 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
24910 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
24911 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
24912 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
24913 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
24914 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
24915 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24916 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
24917 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
24918 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
24919 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
24920 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
24921 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
24922 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24923 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24924 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24925 because of a pending download.
24926 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
24927 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
24928 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
24929 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
24930 bug 820, reported by seeess.
24932 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24933 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24934 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24935 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24936 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24937 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24938 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24939 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24940 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24942 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24943 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24945 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24946 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24947 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24948 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24949 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24950 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24951 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24952 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24953 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24954 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24955 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24956 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24957 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24959 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24960 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24961 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24963 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24964 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24966 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24967 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24968 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24969 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24970 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24971 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24972 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24973 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24974 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24975 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24976 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24977 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24978 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24980 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24981 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24982 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24983 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24984 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24985 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24986 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24988 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24989 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24991 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24992 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24993 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24994 Workaround for bug 1024.
24995 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24996 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24997 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24998 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24999 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25000 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25001 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25002 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25005 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25006 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25009 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25010 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25011 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25012 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25013 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25014 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25015 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25017 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25018 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25019 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25020 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25021 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25022 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25023 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25024 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25027 o Deprecated and removed features:
25028 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25029 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25030 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25032 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25034 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25035 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25036 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25037 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25038 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25039 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25040 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25041 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25042 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25043 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25044 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25045 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25046 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25047 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25050 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25051 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25052 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25053 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25054 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25056 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25057 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25058 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25059 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25060 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25061 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25062 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25063 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25064 actual mistakes we're making here.
25065 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25066 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25067 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25068 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25069 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25070 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25071 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25072 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25073 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25074 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25075 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25076 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25077 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25078 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25079 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25082 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25084 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25085 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25086 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25087 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25088 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25091 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25092 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25093 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25094 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25095 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25096 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25097 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25098 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25099 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25100 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25103 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25104 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25105 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25106 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25107 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25108 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25109 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25110 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25113 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25114 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25115 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25116 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25117 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25119 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25120 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25121 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25122 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25125 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25126 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25127 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25128 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25129 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25130 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25131 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25132 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25135 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25136 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25137 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25138 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25141 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25142 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25143 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25144 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25146 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25147 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25148 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25151 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25152 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25155 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25156 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25157 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25158 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25159 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25160 reported by "wood".
25161 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25162 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25163 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25164 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25165 identify a connection.
25166 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25167 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25168 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25169 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25170 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25171 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25172 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25173 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25174 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25175 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25177 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25178 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25179 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25180 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25181 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25182 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25183 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25186 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25187 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25189 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25190 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25191 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25192 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25193 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25194 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25195 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25196 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25198 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25199 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25200 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25201 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25202 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25203 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25204 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25205 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25206 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25207 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25208 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25209 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25210 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25211 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25212 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25213 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25214 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25215 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25216 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25217 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25218 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25219 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25220 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25221 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25222 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25223 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25224 840. Patch from rovv.
25225 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25226 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25227 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25229 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25230 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25231 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25232 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25233 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25234 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25235 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25237 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25238 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25239 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25242 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25243 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25245 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25246 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25247 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25248 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25249 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25250 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25251 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25252 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25253 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25255 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25257 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25258 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25262 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25263 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25264 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25265 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25266 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25267 variety of other issues.
25270 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25271 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25272 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25273 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25274 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25275 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25276 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25277 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25278 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25279 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25280 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25281 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25284 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25285 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25287 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25288 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25289 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25290 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25291 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25292 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25293 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25294 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25295 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25296 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25297 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25298 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25299 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25300 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25301 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25305 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25306 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25307 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25308 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25309 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25310 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25311 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25312 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25313 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25314 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25315 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25316 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25317 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25318 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25319 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25320 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25321 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25322 list. It has been gone for many months.
25323 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25324 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25325 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25328 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25329 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25330 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25333 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25334 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25335 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25336 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25339 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25340 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25341 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25342 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25343 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25344 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25346 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25347 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25348 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25349 pointed out by rovv.
25352 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25353 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25354 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25355 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25356 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25357 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25358 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25359 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25360 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25361 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25362 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25363 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25364 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25365 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25366 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25367 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25368 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25369 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25370 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25371 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25372 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25375 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25376 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25377 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25378 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25379 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25380 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25381 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25383 o New v3 directory design:
25384 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25385 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25386 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25387 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25388 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25389 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25390 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25392 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25393 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25394 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25395 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25396 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25397 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25398 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25399 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25400 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25401 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25402 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25403 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25404 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25405 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25407 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25408 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25409 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25410 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25411 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25412 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25413 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25414 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25415 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25416 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25417 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25418 certain censored countries by default again.
25419 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25420 Tor's x509 certificates.
25422 o Implement bridge relays:
25423 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25424 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25425 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25426 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25427 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25428 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25429 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25430 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25431 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25432 rather than "v2,v3".
25433 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25434 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25435 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25436 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25437 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25438 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25439 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25440 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25441 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25442 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25443 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25445 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25446 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25447 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25448 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25449 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25450 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25451 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25452 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25453 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25454 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25455 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25456 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25457 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25458 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25459 bridges are functioning.
25460 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25461 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25462 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25463 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25464 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25465 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25466 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25467 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25468 knows that password. Unset by default.
25469 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25470 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25471 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25472 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25473 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25474 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25475 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25476 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25477 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25478 and bridges@torproject.org.
25480 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25481 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25482 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25483 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25484 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25485 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25486 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25487 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25488 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25489 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25490 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25491 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25492 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25493 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25494 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25496 o Major features (relay usability):
25497 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25498 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25499 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25500 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25501 proposal 111 for details.
25502 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25503 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25504 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25505 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25507 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25508 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25509 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25511 o Major features (directory authorities):
25512 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25513 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25514 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25515 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25516 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25517 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25518 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25519 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25520 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25521 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25522 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25523 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25524 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25526 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25527 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25528 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25529 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25530 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25531 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25532 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25533 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25534 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25535 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25536 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25537 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25538 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25539 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25540 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25541 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25542 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25543 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25544 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25545 general, controller, or bridge.
25547 o Major features (other):
25548 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25549 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25550 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25551 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25552 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25553 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25554 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25555 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25556 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25557 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25558 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25559 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25560 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25561 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25564 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25565 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25566 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25568 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25569 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25570 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25571 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25572 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25573 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25574 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25575 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25576 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25577 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25578 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25580 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25581 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25583 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25584 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25585 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25586 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25588 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25589 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25590 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25591 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25592 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25594 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25595 address maps to an internal address space.
25596 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25597 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25598 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25599 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25600 complements proposal 107.
25601 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25602 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25603 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25604 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25605 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25606 reported by taranis and lodger.
25607 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25608 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25609 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25610 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25611 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25612 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25613 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25614 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25615 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25616 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25617 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25618 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25619 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25621 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25622 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25624 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25625 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25626 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25627 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25628 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25629 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25630 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25632 o Major bugfixes (other):
25633 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25634 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25635 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25637 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25638 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25639 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25640 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25641 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25642 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25643 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25644 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25645 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25646 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25647 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25648 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25649 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25650 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25651 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25652 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25653 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25654 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25655 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25657 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25658 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25659 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25660 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25661 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25662 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25663 eat all of our bandwidth.
25664 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25665 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25666 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25667 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25668 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25669 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25670 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25671 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25672 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25673 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25674 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25675 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25677 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25678 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25679 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25680 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25681 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25682 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25683 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25684 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25685 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25686 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25687 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25688 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25690 o Performance improvements (memory):
25691 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25692 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
25693 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
25694 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
25695 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25696 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25697 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25698 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25699 memory fragmentation.
25700 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25701 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25702 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25703 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25704 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25706 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25707 of them were actually distinct.
25708 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25710 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25711 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25712 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25713 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25714 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25715 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25716 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25717 performance-intensive.
25718 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
25719 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25720 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
25721 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25722 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
25725 o Performance improvements (socket management):
25726 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
25727 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
25728 our allocated connection limit.
25729 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
25730 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
25731 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
25732 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
25733 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
25735 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
25736 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
25738 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
25739 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
25740 is interested in a given message.
25741 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
25742 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
25743 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
25744 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
25745 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
25747 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
25748 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
25749 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
25751 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
25752 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
25753 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
25754 they are the same).
25755 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
25756 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
25757 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
25758 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
25761 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
25762 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
25763 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
25764 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
25765 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
25766 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
25767 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
25769 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
25770 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
25771 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
25772 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
25773 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
25774 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
25775 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
25776 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
25777 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
25778 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
25779 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
25780 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
25781 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
25784 o Changed config option behavior (features):
25785 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
25786 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
25787 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
25788 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
25789 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
25790 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
25791 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
25792 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
25793 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
25794 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
25795 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
25796 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
25797 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
25798 and are reaching it.
25799 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
25800 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
25801 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
25802 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
25804 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
25805 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
25806 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
25807 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
25808 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
25809 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
25810 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
25811 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
25812 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
25814 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
25815 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
25816 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
25817 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
25818 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
25819 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
25820 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
25821 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
25823 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
25824 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
25826 o New config options:
25827 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
25828 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
25829 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
25830 running a test network on a single host.
25831 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
25832 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
25833 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
25834 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
25835 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
25836 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
25837 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
25838 the approved-routers file.
25839 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
25840 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
25841 v2 directory information.
25843 o Minor features (other):
25844 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
25845 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
25846 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
25847 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
25848 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
25849 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
25851 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
25852 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
25853 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
25854 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
25855 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
25856 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
25857 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
25859 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
25860 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
25861 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
25863 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
25864 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
25865 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
25866 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
25867 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
25869 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
25870 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
25871 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
25872 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
25873 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
25874 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25875 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
25877 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
25878 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
25879 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
25880 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
25881 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
25882 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
25883 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
25884 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
25885 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
25888 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25889 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
25890 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
25892 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
25893 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
25894 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
25895 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
25896 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
25897 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
25899 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
25900 bandwidthburst values.
25901 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
25902 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
25903 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
25904 to mark all our entry points down.
25905 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
25906 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
25907 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
25908 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
25909 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
25911 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
25912 more often than they are allowed to appear.
25913 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
25914 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25915 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
25916 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
25917 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
25918 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
25919 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
25921 o Controller features:
25922 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25923 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25924 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25925 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
25926 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
25927 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
25929 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
25930 multiple controller passwords.
25931 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25932 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25933 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25934 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25936 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25937 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25938 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25939 cookie authentication file, and config option
25940 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25941 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25942 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25943 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
25945 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25946 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
25947 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25948 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25949 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
25950 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25951 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25953 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25954 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25956 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25957 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25958 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25959 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25960 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25961 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
25962 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
25963 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
25964 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25965 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25966 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25967 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25968 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25970 o Controller bugfixes:
25971 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25972 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25973 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
25974 processes can't run us out of memory.
25975 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25976 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25977 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25979 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
25980 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25981 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25982 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
25983 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25984 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25985 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25986 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25987 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25988 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25989 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25990 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25991 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25992 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25993 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25995 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25996 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25998 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25999 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26000 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26001 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26002 WARN-severity events.
26004 o Portability / building / compiling:
26005 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26006 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26007 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26008 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26009 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26010 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26011 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26012 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26013 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26014 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26015 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26016 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26017 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26019 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26020 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26021 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26022 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26023 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26024 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26025 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26026 partial results on small file reads.
26027 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26028 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26029 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26030 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26031 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26032 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26034 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26035 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26036 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26037 logging for the unit tests.
26038 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26039 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26041 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26042 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26044 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26045 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26046 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26047 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26050 o Logging improvements:
26051 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26052 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26053 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26054 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26055 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26056 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26057 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26059 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26060 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26061 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26062 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26063 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26064 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26065 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26066 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26067 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26068 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26069 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26070 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26071 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26072 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26073 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26074 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26075 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26076 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26077 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26079 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26080 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26081 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26082 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26084 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26085 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26086 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26087 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26088 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26090 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26091 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26092 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26093 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26094 makes the log messages nicer.
26095 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26096 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26098 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26099 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26100 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26102 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26103 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26104 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26105 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26106 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26107 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26108 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26109 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26110 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26111 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26113 o Newly deprecated features:
26114 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26115 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26116 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26117 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26119 o Removed features:
26120 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26121 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26122 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26123 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26124 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26126 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26127 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26128 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26129 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26130 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26131 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26132 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26133 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26135 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26136 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26137 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26138 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26139 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26140 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26142 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26143 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26144 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26145 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26146 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26147 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26148 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26149 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26150 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26151 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26152 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26153 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26154 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26155 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26159 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26160 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26161 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26162 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26165 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26166 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26167 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26168 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26169 on network address.
26172 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26173 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26174 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26175 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26176 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26177 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26178 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26179 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26180 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26181 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26182 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26183 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26186 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26187 rebuild our server descriptor.
26188 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26189 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26190 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26191 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26192 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26193 nonstandard integer types.
26194 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26195 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26196 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26197 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26198 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26200 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26201 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26202 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26203 when they receive them.
26204 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26205 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26206 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26207 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26208 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26209 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26210 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26211 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26212 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26213 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26217 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26218 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26219 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26220 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26221 lists for a few hours each day.
26223 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26224 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26225 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26226 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26227 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26228 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26229 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26230 rend_process_relay_cell().
26232 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26233 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26234 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26235 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26236 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26237 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26238 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26239 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26241 o Major bugfixes (other):
26242 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26243 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26244 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26245 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26246 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26247 circuit cannibalization).
26248 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26249 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26250 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26251 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26252 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26253 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26256 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26257 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26259 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26260 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26261 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26262 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26263 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26264 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26265 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26266 were reporting the dir port.)
26267 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26268 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26269 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26270 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26271 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26273 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26274 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26275 the onion key from getting rotated.
26276 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26277 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26278 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26279 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26280 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26281 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26282 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26285 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26286 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26287 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26288 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26289 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26292 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26293 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26296 o Major bugfixes (security):
26297 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26298 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26299 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26301 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26302 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26303 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26305 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26306 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26307 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26308 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26309 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26310 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26312 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26313 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26314 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26315 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26316 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26318 o Minor features (controller):
26319 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26320 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26321 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26322 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26324 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26325 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26326 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26327 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26328 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26329 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26330 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26331 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26333 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26334 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26335 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26336 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26337 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26338 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26339 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26340 if we ran off the end of the list.
26341 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26342 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26343 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26344 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26345 every time we change any piece of our config.
26346 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26347 encourage people using them to stop.
26348 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26350 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26351 servers to choose a circuit.
26352 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26353 unparseable piece of it.
26356 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26357 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26358 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26359 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26360 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26361 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26363 o Major security fixes:
26364 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26365 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26368 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26369 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26370 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26371 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26373 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26374 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26376 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26377 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26378 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26379 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26380 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26381 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26382 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26384 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26385 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26386 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26388 o Major bugfixes (security):
26389 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26391 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26392 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26393 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26394 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26395 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26396 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26397 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26398 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26399 guard list unless we need to.
26401 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26402 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26403 don't get overused as guards.
26405 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26406 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26407 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26408 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26409 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26411 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26412 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26413 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26416 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26417 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26418 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26419 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26420 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26421 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26422 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26423 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26426 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26427 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26428 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26429 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26431 o Directory authority changes:
26432 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26433 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26434 or use hidden services.
26436 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26437 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26438 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26439 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26440 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26441 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26442 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26443 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26444 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26447 o Major bugfixes (security):
26448 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26449 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26450 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26452 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26453 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26454 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26455 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26456 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26457 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26458 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26459 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26460 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26461 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26464 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26465 purpose=controller.
26466 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26467 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26469 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26470 having a hard time downloading.
26471 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26472 partial results on small file reads.
26473 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26474 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26475 the gaps in the store get very large.
26478 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26479 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26481 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26482 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26485 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26486 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26487 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26488 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26489 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26490 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26492 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26493 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26494 free speech on the Internet.
26496 o Major features, client performance:
26497 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26498 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26499 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26500 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26501 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26502 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26503 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26504 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26505 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26506 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26507 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26508 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26509 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26510 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26511 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26513 o Major features, client functionality:
26514 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26515 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26516 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26517 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26518 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26519 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26520 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26521 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26522 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26523 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26524 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26525 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26526 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26528 o Major features, servers:
26529 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26530 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26531 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26532 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26533 authenticated, so use with care.
26534 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26535 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26536 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26538 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26539 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26540 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26541 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26542 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26543 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26545 o Improvements on DNS support:
26546 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26547 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26548 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26549 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26550 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26551 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26552 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26553 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26554 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26555 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26556 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26557 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26558 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26559 lets you turn it off.
26560 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26561 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26562 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26563 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26564 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26565 useful to the network.
26566 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26567 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26568 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26569 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26570 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26571 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26573 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26574 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26575 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26576 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26577 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26578 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26579 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26580 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26581 if their identity keys are as expected.
26582 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26583 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26584 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26585 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26586 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26587 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26588 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26589 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26590 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26591 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26592 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26593 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26594 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26595 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26597 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26598 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26599 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26600 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26601 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26602 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26604 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26605 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26606 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26607 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26608 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26609 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26610 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26611 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26613 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26614 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26616 o Major features, NT services:
26617 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26618 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26619 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26620 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26621 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26622 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26623 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26625 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26626 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26627 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26629 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26630 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26631 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26633 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26634 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26636 o Directory authority improvements:
26637 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26639 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26640 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26641 too much load to the exit nodes.
26642 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26643 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26644 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26645 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26646 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26647 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26648 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26649 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26650 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26651 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26652 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26653 broken. Not used yet.
26654 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26655 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26656 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26657 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26658 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26659 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26660 non-versioning dirservers.
26661 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26662 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26663 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26665 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26666 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26667 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26668 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26670 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26671 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26672 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26673 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26674 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26675 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26676 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26677 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26678 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26679 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26680 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26681 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26682 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26683 routers for even longer.
26684 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26685 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26686 caching HTTP proxies.
26687 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26688 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26689 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26690 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26692 o Major fixes, crashes:
26693 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26694 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26695 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
26696 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
26698 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26699 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
26700 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
26701 stream is detached.
26702 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26703 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26704 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26705 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26706 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26707 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26708 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26709 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26710 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26711 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26713 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
26714 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26715 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
26716 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
26717 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
26718 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26719 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26720 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26721 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26722 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26723 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
26724 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
26725 could return an unnamed server instead.
26726 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
26727 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
26728 a more attractive target for compromise.)
26729 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
26730 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
26731 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
26732 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
26734 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
26735 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
26737 o Major fixes, other:
26738 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
26739 uptime in the descriptor.
26740 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
26741 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
26742 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
26743 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
26744 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
26745 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
26746 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
26747 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
26748 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
26749 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
26750 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
26751 our DirPort now, etc.
26752 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
26753 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
26754 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
26756 o New config options or behaviors:
26757 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
26758 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
26759 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
26760 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
26761 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
26762 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
26763 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
26764 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
26765 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
26766 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
26767 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
26768 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
26770 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
26771 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
26772 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
26773 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
26774 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
26776 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
26777 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
26778 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
26779 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
26780 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
26781 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
26782 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
26783 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
26784 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
26785 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
26786 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
26787 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
26788 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
26789 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
26790 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
26791 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
26792 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
26793 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
26794 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
26795 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
26796 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
26797 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
26798 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
26799 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
26800 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
26801 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
26802 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
26803 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
26804 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
26805 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
26807 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
26808 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
26809 your ORPort is set.
26812 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
26813 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
26815 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
26816 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
26817 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
26818 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
26820 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
26821 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
26822 whether the config options are bad or good.
26823 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
26824 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
26825 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
26826 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
26827 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
26828 result more than once.
26829 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
26830 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
26831 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
26832 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
26833 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
26834 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
26835 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
26836 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
26837 before we check for libevent.
26838 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
26839 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
26840 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
26841 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
26842 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
26843 recommendation system saner.)
26844 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
26845 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
26846 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
26847 now universal binaries.
26848 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
26849 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
26851 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
26853 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
26854 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
26855 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
26856 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
26857 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
26858 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
26860 o Minor features, controller:
26861 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
26862 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
26863 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
26865 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
26866 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26867 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
26868 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
26869 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
26870 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
26871 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
26873 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
26874 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
26875 connected or resolved cell.
26876 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
26877 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
26878 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
26879 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
26880 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
26881 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
26882 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
26884 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
26885 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
26886 entry guard status as it changes.
26887 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
26888 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
26889 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
26890 watching for STREAM events.
26891 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
26892 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
26893 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
26894 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
26896 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
26897 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
26898 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
26899 working much like those for circuit events.
26900 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
26901 about the current status of a router.
26902 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
26903 a router's status has changed.
26904 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
26905 can tell which events and features are supported.
26906 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
26907 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
26908 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
26909 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
26910 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
26911 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
26912 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
26913 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
26914 for more information.
26915 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
26916 best guess to the user.
26917 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
26918 descriptor has changed.
26919 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
26920 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
26921 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26923 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
26924 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
26925 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
26926 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
26927 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
26928 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
26929 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
26930 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
26931 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26932 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26933 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
26935 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26936 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26938 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26939 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26940 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26942 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26943 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26944 the controller from learning about current events.
26945 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26946 reported by Mike Perry.
26947 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26948 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26949 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26950 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26951 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26952 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26953 long nicknames where appropriate.
26954 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
26955 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
26957 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
26958 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
26959 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
26960 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
26961 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26963 o Minor features, code performance:
26964 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26965 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26966 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
26968 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26969 some profiles, but not others.)
26970 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26971 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26972 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26973 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26974 operations, for profiling.
26975 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26976 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26977 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26978 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26979 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26980 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26981 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26982 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26984 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
26985 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26986 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26987 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26988 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26989 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26990 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26991 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26992 family lists conveniently.
26994 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
26995 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26996 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26997 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26998 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
26999 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27000 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27001 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27002 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27003 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27004 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27005 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27006 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27007 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27008 of it), is not therefore "up".
27010 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27011 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27012 what version a router is running.
27013 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27014 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27015 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27016 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27018 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27019 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27020 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27021 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27022 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27025 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27026 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27027 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27029 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27030 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27032 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27033 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27034 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27035 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27036 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27037 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27038 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27039 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27040 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27041 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27043 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27044 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27045 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27046 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27047 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27048 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27049 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27050 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27051 get one we don't recognize.
27054 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27055 o Security bugfixes:
27056 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27057 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27058 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27059 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27063 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27064 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27065 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27068 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27070 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27071 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27072 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27073 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27074 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27075 its circuits on demand.
27076 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27077 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27078 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27079 connections more stable on average.
27080 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27081 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27082 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27084 o Security bugfixes:
27085 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27086 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27089 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27091 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27092 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27093 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27094 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27095 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27096 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27097 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27098 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27101 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27103 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27104 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27105 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27106 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27107 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27108 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27109 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27110 it can't resolve its hostname.
27111 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27112 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27113 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27116 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27117 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27118 "extendcircuit" request.
27119 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27120 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27121 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27122 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27124 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27125 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27126 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27128 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27129 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27130 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27131 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27132 we don't recognize.
27135 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27137 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27138 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27139 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27140 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27141 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27142 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27143 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27144 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27145 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27148 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27149 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27150 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27151 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27152 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27154 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27155 own server descriptor yet.
27158 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27160 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27161 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27162 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27163 make sure to test via one of these.
27164 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27165 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27166 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27167 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27168 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27170 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27171 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27172 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27175 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27176 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27177 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27178 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27179 directory authority.
27180 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27181 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27182 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27183 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27186 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27187 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27188 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27190 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27191 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27192 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27193 current guards when picking a new guard.
27194 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27195 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27196 when we had more than one pending.
27197 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27198 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27199 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27200 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27201 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27202 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27203 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27204 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27205 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27206 debug the reachability problems better.
27208 o Log / documentation fixes:
27209 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27210 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27211 about protocol violations by others.
27212 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27213 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27214 about what happened to our old torrc.
27217 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27218 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27219 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27220 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27221 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27222 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27224 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27225 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27226 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27227 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27228 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27229 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27230 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27231 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27232 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27233 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27234 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27235 on malicious huge inputs.
27237 o Security fixes, major:
27238 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27239 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27240 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27241 misreading their logs.
27242 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27243 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27244 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27245 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27246 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27247 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27248 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27249 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27250 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27251 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27252 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27253 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27254 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27255 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27257 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27258 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27259 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27260 firewall options forbid.
27261 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27262 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27263 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27264 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27265 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27266 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27268 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27269 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27270 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27271 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27272 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27273 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27274 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27275 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27276 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27277 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27278 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27279 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27280 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27282 o Security fixes, minor:
27283 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27284 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27286 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27287 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27288 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27289 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27290 if we've not heard of a server.
27291 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27292 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27293 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27294 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27295 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27296 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27297 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27298 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27299 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27300 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27301 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27302 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27303 aids some statistical attacks.
27304 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27305 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27306 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27307 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27308 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27309 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27310 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27311 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27314 o Packaging improvements:
27315 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27316 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27317 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27318 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27319 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27320 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27322 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27323 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27324 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27325 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27326 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27327 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27329 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27330 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27331 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27333 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27334 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27335 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27336 They are useless now.
27337 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27338 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27339 is reachable by you.
27340 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27343 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27344 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27345 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27346 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27347 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27348 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27349 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27350 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27351 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27352 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27353 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27354 and isolating attacks better.
27355 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27356 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27357 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27358 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27359 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27360 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27361 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27362 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27363 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27364 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27365 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27367 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27368 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27369 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27370 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27371 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27372 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27373 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27374 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27375 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27376 for clients and for servers.
27377 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27378 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27379 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27380 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27381 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27382 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27383 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27384 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27385 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27386 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27387 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27389 o Other directory improvements:
27390 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27391 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27392 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27393 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27394 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27395 to hang up on them.
27396 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27397 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27398 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27399 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27400 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27401 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27403 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27404 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27405 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27406 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27407 connections more reliable.
27408 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27409 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27410 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27411 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27412 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27413 we fail to connect).
27414 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27416 o Controller protocol improvements:
27417 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27418 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27419 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27420 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27421 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27422 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27423 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27424 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27425 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27426 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27427 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27428 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27429 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27430 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27431 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27432 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27433 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27434 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27435 or "signal reload".
27436 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27437 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27438 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27439 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27440 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27441 a router in its role as directory authority.
27442 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27443 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27444 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27445 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27446 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27447 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27448 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27449 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27450 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27451 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27452 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27453 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27454 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27455 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27456 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27457 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27458 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27459 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27461 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27462 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27463 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27464 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27465 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27466 just tell them to go read their logs.
27468 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27469 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27470 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27471 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27472 try to be a bit more fair.
27473 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27474 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27475 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27476 and we're using a default DirPort.
27477 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27478 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27479 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27480 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27481 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27482 services faster on the service end.
27483 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27485 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27486 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27487 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27488 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27489 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27490 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27491 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27492 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27493 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27494 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27495 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27496 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27497 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27498 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27499 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27500 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27501 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27502 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27503 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27504 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27505 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27506 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27507 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27508 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27509 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27511 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27512 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27513 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27514 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27515 so we can be backward-compatible.
27516 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27517 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27518 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27519 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27520 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27521 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27522 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27523 initial descriptor forever.
27524 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27525 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27526 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27527 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27528 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27529 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27530 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27531 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27532 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27533 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27534 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27535 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27536 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27537 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27538 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27539 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27540 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27541 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27542 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27543 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27544 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27545 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27546 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27547 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27548 ports that have changed.
27549 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27550 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27551 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27552 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27553 connections once a week.
27554 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27555 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27556 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27557 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27558 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27559 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27560 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27561 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27562 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27563 able to discover them.
27564 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27565 want to make it an NT service.
27566 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27567 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27568 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27569 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27570 memory leaks better.
27571 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27572 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27573 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27574 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27575 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27576 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27577 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27578 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27579 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27580 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27581 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27582 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27583 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27584 and its existence is confusing some users.
27586 o Config option fixes:
27587 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27588 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27589 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27590 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27591 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27592 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27593 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27594 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27595 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27597 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27598 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27599 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27600 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27601 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27602 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27603 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27604 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27605 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27606 silently resetting it to its default.
27607 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27608 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27609 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27610 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27611 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27612 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27613 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27614 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27615 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27616 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27617 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27618 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27619 Address config option.
27620 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27621 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27623 o Config option features:
27624 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27625 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27626 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27627 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27628 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27630 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27631 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27632 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27633 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27634 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27635 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27636 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27637 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27638 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27639 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27640 in at least some cases.)
27641 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27642 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27643 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27644 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27645 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27646 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27647 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27648 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27649 even if we know they're jerks.
27650 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27651 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27652 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27653 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27654 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27655 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27656 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27657 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27658 because older Tors do not understand it.
27659 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27660 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27661 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27662 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27663 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27664 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27665 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27666 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27667 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27668 unattached before we fail it?
27669 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27670 at least this many seconds ago.
27671 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27672 at least this many seconds ago.
27673 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27674 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27676 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27677 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27678 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27679 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27681 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27682 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27683 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27684 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27685 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27686 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27687 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27688 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27689 temporarily unreachable.
27690 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27691 Windows-style errno back.
27692 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27693 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27695 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27696 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27697 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
27698 exactly for this case.
27699 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27700 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
27701 don't warn twice about the same name.
27702 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27704 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27705 it was self-testing that told us so.
27706 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27707 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27708 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27709 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27710 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27711 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27712 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27713 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27714 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27715 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
27716 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27717 established a circuit.
27718 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27719 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
27720 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
27721 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
27722 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
27723 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
27724 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
27725 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
27726 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
27727 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
27728 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
27729 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
27730 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
27731 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
27732 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
27733 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
27734 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
27735 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
27736 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
27737 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
27738 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
27739 testing for reachability.
27740 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
27741 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
27743 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
27746 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
27747 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27748 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
27749 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
27751 o Other important bugfixes:
27752 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27753 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27754 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27755 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27757 o Backported features:
27758 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27759 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27760 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27761 without getting overloaded.
27762 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
27763 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
27764 503's whenever they feel busy.
27765 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
27766 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
27767 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
27768 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
27769 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
27772 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
27773 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27774 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27775 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27776 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27777 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
27778 too -- so detect and avoid this.
27779 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
27781 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
27782 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27783 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27784 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
27785 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
27786 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27787 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27788 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
27789 rendezvous circuits.
27790 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
27792 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27793 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
27794 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
27795 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
27796 advertising it because of hibernation.
27797 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
27798 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
27799 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27800 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27801 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27802 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27803 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27804 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
27805 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
27806 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
27807 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
27808 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
27809 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
27810 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
27811 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
27814 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
27815 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27816 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
27817 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27818 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27819 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27820 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27821 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
27822 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
27823 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27824 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27825 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
27826 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
27827 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
27828 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
27831 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
27832 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27833 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
27835 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
27836 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
27839 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
27840 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27841 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
27842 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
27843 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
27844 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
27845 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
27847 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
27848 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
27852 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
27853 o New directory servers:
27854 - tor26 has changed IP address.
27856 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27857 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
27858 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
27859 pthreads libraries.
27860 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
27861 claims its dirport is 0.
27862 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
27863 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
27867 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
27868 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27869 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
27870 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
27871 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
27872 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
27873 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
27874 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
27877 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
27879 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
27880 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
27881 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
27882 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
27883 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
27884 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
27885 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
27886 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
27887 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
27889 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
27890 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
27892 o Assert / crash bugs:
27893 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27894 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27895 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27897 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27898 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
27899 TLS errors better in other situations too.
27900 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
27901 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
27904 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
27905 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
27906 duplicate ram over time.
27907 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
27908 reentry and threadsafeness.
27909 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
27910 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
27911 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
27913 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
27914 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
27915 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
27916 point at your Tor server.
27917 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
27919 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
27920 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27923 o Protocol correctness:
27924 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
27925 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
27926 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
27927 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
27928 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
27929 to abandon partially built circuits.
27930 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
27931 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
27932 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
27933 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
27934 descriptors we just dropped.
27935 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27936 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
27937 and to take errno into account where possible.
27938 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
27939 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
27940 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27941 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27943 o Robustness improvements:
27944 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
27945 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
27946 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
27948 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
27949 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
27950 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
27951 that will want high uptime circuits.
27952 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
27953 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
27954 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
27955 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
27956 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
27957 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
27958 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
27959 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
27960 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
27961 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
27962 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
27963 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
27964 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
27965 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27966 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27967 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27968 for google.com" problem.
27969 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27970 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27971 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
27972 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
27973 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
27976 o Reachability testing.
27977 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
27978 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
27979 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
27980 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
27981 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27982 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27983 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27984 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
27985 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
27986 already connected to them.
27987 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
27991 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27992 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27993 nickname+key are allowed.
27994 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27995 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27996 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27997 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27998 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27999 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28000 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28001 have quite wrong clocks).
28002 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28003 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28004 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28005 their descriptors are being rejected.
28007 o Efficiency improvements:
28008 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28009 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28010 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28011 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28012 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28013 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28014 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28015 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28016 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28017 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28019 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28020 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28021 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28022 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28023 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28024 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28025 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28026 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28027 of CPU time plus memory.
28028 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28029 directory every time you regenerate it.
28030 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28031 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28032 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28033 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28034 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28035 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28036 lowercase when you first see them.
28039 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28040 hidden services better.
28041 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28042 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28043 when we try to launch one.
28044 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28045 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28046 attempts to build a circuit.
28047 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28048 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28049 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28050 normal web requests.
28053 - More Tor controller support. See
28054 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28055 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28056 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28057 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28058 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28059 to make it easier to write controllers.
28060 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28061 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28062 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28063 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28064 new log event types.
28066 o New config options/defaults:
28067 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28068 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28069 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28070 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28071 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28073 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28075 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28076 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28077 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28078 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28079 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28081 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28082 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28083 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28084 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28085 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28086 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28087 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28088 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28089 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28090 required exit node for certain sites.
28091 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28092 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28093 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28094 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28095 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28096 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28097 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28098 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28099 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28101 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28102 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28103 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28104 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28105 private-IP addresses.
28106 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28107 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28108 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28109 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28110 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28111 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28112 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28113 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28115 o Logging improvements:
28116 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28117 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28118 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28119 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28121 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28122 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28123 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28124 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28125 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28126 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28127 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28128 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28129 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28131 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28133 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28134 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28135 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28136 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28137 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28138 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28140 o New contrib scripts:
28141 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28142 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28144 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28145 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28146 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28147 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28148 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28149 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28151 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28152 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28153 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28154 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28158 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28159 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28160 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28161 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28162 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28163 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28164 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28166 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28167 something more reasonable when first installing.
28168 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28169 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28170 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28171 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28173 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28174 artificially capped at 500kB.
28175 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28177 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28178 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28179 they could use instead.
28180 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28181 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28182 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28183 the user asks you to.
28186 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28187 rather than just rejecting it.
28188 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28189 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28190 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28191 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28192 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28193 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28194 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28195 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28196 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28197 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28198 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28199 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28201 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28202 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28203 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28204 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28206 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28207 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28209 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28210 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28211 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28212 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28214 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28215 whether the server is hibernating.
28218 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28219 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28220 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28221 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28222 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28226 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28227 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28228 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28229 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28230 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28233 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28234 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28235 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28236 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28237 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28238 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28239 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28242 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28243 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28244 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28245 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28246 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28247 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28248 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28249 creating actual system users.
28250 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28251 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28255 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28256 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28257 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28258 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28259 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28260 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28261 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28262 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28263 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28264 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28265 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28266 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28267 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28268 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28269 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28271 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28272 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28273 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28274 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28275 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28276 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28277 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28278 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28279 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28280 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28281 existing torrc files.
28282 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28285 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28286 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28287 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28288 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28289 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28290 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28291 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28292 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28293 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28294 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28295 file descriptors available.
28296 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28297 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28298 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28301 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28302 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28303 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28304 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28306 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28307 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28308 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28309 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28310 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28312 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28313 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28314 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28315 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28316 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28317 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28318 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28319 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28320 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28321 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28322 800kB/s of capacity.
28323 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28326 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28327 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28328 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28329 need as much processor time.
28330 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28331 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28332 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28333 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28334 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28335 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28336 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28337 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28338 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28339 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28340 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28341 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28343 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28344 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28345 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28346 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28347 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28348 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28349 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28352 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28353 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28354 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28356 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28357 style address, then we'd crash.
28358 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28359 a dirserver is broken.
28360 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28362 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28363 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28364 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28366 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28367 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28368 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28369 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28370 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28371 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28373 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28374 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28375 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28377 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28379 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28380 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28381 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28382 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28383 values at once couldn't work.
28384 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28385 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28386 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28387 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28388 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28389 they can handle any number of routers.
28390 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28391 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28392 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28393 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28394 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28395 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28396 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28397 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28398 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28401 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28402 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28403 - Make hibernation actually work.
28404 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28405 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28406 don't use the stream status code.
28409 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28410 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28411 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28412 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28413 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28414 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28415 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28416 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28417 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28418 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28419 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28420 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28423 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28424 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28425 win32 socket errors better.
28426 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28427 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28428 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28429 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28431 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28433 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28434 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28435 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28436 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28437 right after sending the begin cell.
28438 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28439 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28440 exit nodes too. Oops.
28441 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28442 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28443 the user would get no response.
28444 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28445 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28446 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28448 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28449 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28450 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28451 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28452 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28454 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28455 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28456 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28457 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28458 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28459 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28460 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28461 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28462 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28463 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28464 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28466 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28467 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28468 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28469 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28470 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28471 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28472 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28473 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28474 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28475 so we don't see those messages days later.
28476 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28477 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28479 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28480 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28481 they ran out of file descriptors.
28482 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28483 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28484 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28485 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28487 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28488 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28489 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28490 the ones we find in directories.)
28491 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28492 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28493 if you don't want it open.
28494 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28495 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28496 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28497 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28498 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28499 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28501 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28502 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28504 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28506 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28507 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28509 o Features (circuits and streams):
28510 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28511 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28512 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28513 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28514 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28515 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28516 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28517 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28518 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28519 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28520 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28521 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28522 from Geoff Goodell.
28523 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28525 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28526 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28527 to fill the last cell completely.
28528 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28529 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28531 o Features (bandwidth):
28532 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28533 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28534 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28535 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28536 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28537 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28538 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28539 your billing cycle starts on.
28540 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28541 hibernation properties by
28542 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28543 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28544 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28545 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28546 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28548 o Features (directories):
28549 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28550 nickname to its identity key.
28551 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28552 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28553 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28554 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28555 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28557 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28558 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28560 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28561 will be able to get a directory.
28562 - Http proxy support
28563 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28564 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28565 be routed through this host.
28566 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28567 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28568 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28569 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28570 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28571 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28573 o Features (packages and install):
28574 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28575 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28576 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28577 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28578 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28579 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28580 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28581 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28582 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28583 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28586 o Features (ui controller):
28587 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28588 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28589 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28590 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28591 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28592 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28593 with the control port.
28594 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28595 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28596 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28597 configuration to torrc.
28598 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28599 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28600 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28602 o Features (config and command-line):
28603 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28604 not on the command line.
28605 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28607 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28608 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28609 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28610 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28611 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28612 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28613 - New log format in config:
28614 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28615 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28616 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28617 from their dirserver.
28618 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28620 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28621 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28622 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28623 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28624 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28625 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28626 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28627 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28628 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28629 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28630 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28631 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28632 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28633 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28634 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28635 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28636 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28637 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28638 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28639 than once per minute.
28641 o Features (other):
28642 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28643 get back to normal.)
28644 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28645 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28646 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28647 log more informatively.
28648 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28649 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28650 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28651 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28652 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28653 them act more like real nodes.
28654 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28655 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28656 1024) file descriptors.
28657 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28660 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28662 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28663 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28664 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28665 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28666 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28667 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28668 intermittent connections.
28669 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28670 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28672 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28673 in reporting stats locally.
28674 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28675 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28676 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28679 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28681 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28682 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28683 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28684 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28685 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28686 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28687 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28688 list to decide who's running.
28689 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28690 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28691 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28692 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28693 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28694 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28695 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28696 for pointing out this bug.)
28697 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28699 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28700 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28701 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
28702 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
28703 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
28705 o Protocol changes:
28706 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28707 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28708 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28709 hadn't heard of before.
28712 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28713 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28714 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28715 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28716 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28717 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28718 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28719 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28720 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
28721 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
28722 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
28723 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
28724 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
28725 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
28726 - Directory caching.
28727 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
28728 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
28729 directory they've pulled down.
28730 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
28731 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
28732 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
28733 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
28734 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
28735 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
28736 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
28738 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
28739 This isn't used yet.
28740 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
28741 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
28742 clients don't use this yet.)
28743 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
28744 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
28745 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
28746 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
28747 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
28748 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
28749 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
28750 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
28751 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
28752 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
28753 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
28754 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
28755 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
28756 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
28757 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
28758 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
28759 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
28760 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
28761 - File and name management:
28762 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
28763 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
28765 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
28766 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
28767 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
28768 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
28769 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
28770 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
28771 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
28773 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
28774 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
28775 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
28777 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
28778 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
28779 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
28780 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
28781 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
28782 - New docs in the tarball:
28784 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
28785 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
28786 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
28787 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
28788 know you might want to get it verified.
28789 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
28790 kazaa, gnutella ports.
28791 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
28792 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
28793 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
28794 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
28795 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
28796 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
28797 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
28799 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
28801 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
28802 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
28804 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
28805 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
28806 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
28809 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
28810 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
28811 ask them to resolve the host "".
28814 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
28815 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
28816 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
28819 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
28820 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
28821 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
28824 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
28825 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
28826 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
28827 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
28829 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
28830 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
28831 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
28833 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
28834 hidden service per 15-minute period.
28835 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
28836 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
28837 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
28838 o Fixes for security bugs:
28839 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
28840 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
28841 a trusted dirserver.
28843 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
28844 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
28845 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
28846 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
28847 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
28848 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
28849 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
28850 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
28851 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
28852 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
28854 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
28855 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
28856 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
28857 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
28858 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
28859 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
28861 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
28864 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
28865 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
28866 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
28867 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
28868 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
28869 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
28870 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
28871 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
28872 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
28873 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
28874 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
28875 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
28876 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
28877 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
28880 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
28881 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
28882 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
28883 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28886 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
28887 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
28888 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
28889 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
28890 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
28891 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28892 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
28896 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
28898 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
28899 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
28900 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
28901 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
28902 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
28903 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
28904 if you decrypted them correctly.
28905 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
28906 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
28907 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
28908 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
28909 in-memory directories too.
28910 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
28911 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
28912 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
28913 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
28914 just close the circ.
28915 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
28916 - Better debugging for tls errors
28917 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
28918 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
28920 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
28921 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
28922 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28923 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28924 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28925 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28926 it tells you about the first error.
28927 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28928 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28929 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
28930 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
28931 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
28932 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
28933 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
28934 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28935 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
28936 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
28938 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
28939 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
28942 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28943 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
28945 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
28946 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
28947 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
28948 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
28949 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
28950 expect it to have a nickname.
28951 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
28952 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
28953 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
28954 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
28955 the dns farm to do it.
28956 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
28957 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
28959 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
28960 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
28961 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
28962 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
28963 but that aren't warnings
28966 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
28967 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
28971 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
28972 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
28973 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
28974 - include missing header fcntl.h
28975 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
28976 - deal with hardware word alignment
28977 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
28978 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
28979 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
28980 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28981 by kill -USR1 currently.
28982 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28983 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28984 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28987 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28988 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28989 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28992 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28994 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28995 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28996 - And fix a few endian issues.
28999 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29001 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29002 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29003 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29004 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29005 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29006 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29007 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29008 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29010 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29011 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29012 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29014 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29016 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29017 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29018 side isn't reading right then.
29019 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29020 RecommendedVersions
29021 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29022 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29023 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29026 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29028 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29029 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29032 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29036 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29038 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29039 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29040 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29041 connection is finished.
29042 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29043 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29044 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29045 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29046 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29047 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29048 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29049 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29050 rather than warn and continue.
29051 - Make --version work
29052 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29057 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29058 knows it's working.
29059 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29060 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29062 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29063 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29064 so you can collect coredumps there.
29066 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29067 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29068 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29069 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29070 dns cache actually gets populated.
29071 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29072 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29073 end cell down it first.
29074 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29075 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29078 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29080 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29081 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29083 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29084 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29085 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29086 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29087 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29088 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29090 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29092 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29093 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29094 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29095 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29096 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29097 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29099 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29100 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29103 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29105 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29106 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29107 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29108 tor. It even has a man page.
29109 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29110 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29111 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29112 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29114 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29116 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29119 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29121 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29122 it, apt-getters. :)
29123 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29124 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29125 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29126 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29127 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29128 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29129 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29130 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29131 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29132 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29133 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29135 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29136 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29139 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29141 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29142 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29145 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29147 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29148 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29149 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29150 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29151 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29152 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29153 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29154 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29155 logfile so you know it's working.
29156 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29157 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29160 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29162 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29163 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29164 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29167 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29169 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29170 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29171 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29174 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29175 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29176 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29178 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29179 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29181 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29182 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29183 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29185 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29186 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29190 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29192 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29193 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29194 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29197 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29198 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29199 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29200 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29201 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29202 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29203 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29204 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29205 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29206 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29208 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29211 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29212 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29213 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29214 really screw things up.
29215 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29217 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29218 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29220 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29221 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29222 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29223 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29224 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29225 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29228 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29231 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29232 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29233 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29235 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29238 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29239 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29240 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29241 - to get ownership/permissions right
29242 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29243 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29244 pull down a directory again
29245 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29246 causing server crashes
29247 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29248 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29249 - exit if bind() fails
29250 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29251 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29252 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29253 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29254 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29257 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29259 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29260 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29262 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29263 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29264 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29265 exists, rather than failing
29266 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29267 which AP connections are standing by
29268 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29269 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29270 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29272 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29273 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29276 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29277 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29279 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29280 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29281 - Reloads config on HUP
29282 - Usage info on -h or --help
29283 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29285 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29286 o General stability:
29287 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29288 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29289 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29290 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29291 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29292 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29293 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29296 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29297 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29299 o Autoconf improvements:
29300 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29301 - Make install now works
29302 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29303 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29304 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29306 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29307 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29308 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29309 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup